Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080205258 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING MAP INFORMATION IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving MAP information in a communication system are provided. A base station acquires channel quality information of each mobile station, generates sub-MAPs using MAP information, to which at least one of a coding scheme, a modulation scheme and a repetition scheme is applied, separately for each mobile station according to the channel quality information, and transmits the generated sub-MAPs. A mobile station receives MAP information from the base station, detects a sub-MAP allocated to the mobile station from the received MAP information, and restores the detected sub-MAP to MAP information using at least one of a corresponding decoding scheme, demodulation scheme and repetition scheme corresponding to coding scheme, modulation scheme and repetition scheme applied in the base station, based on channel quality information of the mobile station. Accordingly, system overhead can be reduced. | 08-28-2008 |
20080205364 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONFIGURING A FRAME IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and system for configuring a frame in a communication system is provided. The method includes determining a number of frames for configuring one multi-frame, wherein the number is at least two, and configuring each of the determined number of frames, wherein the determined number of frames include a first frame and a second frame temporally discriminated from each other, each of the determined number of frames includes a downlink sub-frame and an uplink sub-frame, a downlink sub-frame of the first frame includes a first area for transmitting a reference signal used for an acquisition of synchronization between a base station and a mobile station, a second area including system information and common control information related to the multi-frame, a third area including modulation scheme information and allocation information of data bursts, a fourth area to which a downlink data burst is allocated in a diversity mode and a fifth area to which a downlink data burst is allocated in a band Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC) mode, and a downlink sub-frame of the second frame includes a sixth area including modulation scheme information and allocation information of data bursts, a seventh area to which a data burst is allocated in a diversity mode, and an eighth area to which a data burst is allocated in an AMC mode. | 08-28-2008 |
20080212531 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING SIGNAL IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and system for transmitting a signal in a communication system is disclosed, in which a BS transmits control information in a predetermined third zone of a frame, the frame being divided into a first and a second zones in frequency and the third zone being included in the first zone, and transmits a data burst in at least one of a fourth zone and the second zone, the fourth zone being a remaining zone of the first zone other than the third zone. | 09-04-2008 |
20080219324 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A HOPPING SEQUENCE IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for generating a hopping sequence according to a seed value in a communication system are provided. The apparatus and method for generating a hopping sequence indicating a hopping pattern of carrier frequencies or time slots in a communication system include, when a seed value is input, setting a window to be applied to the seed value, calculating a window value according to the set window and generating a sequence by storing values in sequence arrangement to the calculated window value. The apparatus and method reduce the necessary size of a memory unit for storing a hopping sequence. | 09-11-2008 |
20080232312 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK FEEDBACK DATA IN A BROADBAND WIRELESS MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for transmitting uplink feedback data in a broadband wireless mobile communication are provided. The method comprises dividing tiles used as a feedback channel into a preset number of groups, selecting one group among the preset number of groups using a downlink channel, selecting a number of tiles, the number of tiles being equal to a number of tiles required for feedback data transmission in the selected group, and mapping feedback data to each selected tile. Thereby, feedback information can be transmitted via a tile selected by a terminal based on a channel state without a process of allocating and reallocating an additional feedback channel, thus enhancing efficiency of uplink wireless resources. | 09-25-2008 |
20080317151 | Apparatus and method for forming subchannel in a communication system - A method for forming a subchannel in a communication system where a first communication system and a second communication system coexist. The method includes determining a first tile set by arranging first tiles remaining after forming at least one first subchannel for the first communication system among frequency resources, including a plurality of tiles, available for the first communication system; determining a second tile set by inserting second tiles which are independent of the frequency resources and are available for the second communication system into the determined first tile set at predetermined positions; forming at least one second subchannel for the second communication system by selecting a predetermined number of tiles from the second tile set; and performing communication using at least one of the first subchannel and the second subchannel. | 12-25-2008 |
20090181689 | METHOD FOR SIGNAL TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION BASED ON HARQ SCHEME IN WIRELESS MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of signal transmission/reception by a transmitter in a wireless mobile communication system is provided. The method includes determining a signal transmission/reception corresponding relation between a downlink and an uplink of the wireless mobile communication system using a super-frame, the super-frame including at least one frame, said at least one frame including at least one downlink sub-frame and at least one uplink sub-frame, the signal transmission/reception corresponding relation enabling each sub-frame within a link including fewer sub-frames to correspond to at least one sub-frame within a link including more sub-frames when the downlink and the uplink of the wireless mobile communication system include different numbers of sub-frames, wherein the signal transmission/reception corresponding relation is also determined when the downlink and the uplink of the wireless mobile communication system include a same number of sub-frames, and transmitting and receiving signals to and from a receiver through at least one downlink sub-frame and at least one uplink sub-frame according to the determined signal transmission/reception corresponding relation. | 07-16-2009 |
20090196367 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving a reference signal in a communication system are provided, in which a transmitter determines first and second different transmit power values for first and second pilot tones residing in one of the substantially same time resource and the substantially same frequency resource among pilot tones included in a data area in a subframe having time and frequency resources, and transmits the first pilot tone with the first transmit power value and the second pilot tone with the second transmit power value. The first transmit power may be a reference transmit power value and the second transmit power may be a product between a weight and the reference transmit power value. | 08-06-2009 |
20090225714 | Apparatus and method for composing diversity subchannel in wireless communication system - An apparatus and a method for composing a subchannel in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes performing a subband-based permutation on resources for composing a subchannel; selecting one or more subbands as resources for a band selection subchannel from the resources passing through the subband-based permutation; composing the band selection subchannel using at least one of the selected subbands; performing a resource allocation unit based permutation on resources not selected for the band selection subchannel; composing a resource allocation unit based diversity subchannel using subband remained in the selected subbands after the band selection subchannel is composed and at least one of the resource allocation units of the resources passing through the resource allocation unit based permutation; and composing a tone-based diversity subchannel by performing a tone-based permutation on resources remained after the resource allocation unit based diversity subchannel is composed. | 09-10-2009 |
20100005132 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING PERMUTATION SEQUENCE IN A BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for generation of an M-length permutation sequence in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. Operations of a generator include splitting an L2-length seed value into a first part and a second part, determining coefficients of a generator polynomial using values of the first part and the second part, and calculating the permutation sequence using the generator polynomial. | 01-07-2010 |
20100005133 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING PERMUTATION SEQUENCE IN A BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for generation of an M-length permutation sequence in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. Operations of a generator include splitting an L2-length seed value into a first part and a second part, determining coefficients of a generator polynomial using values of the first part and the second part, and calculating the permutation sequence using the generator polynomial. | 01-07-2010 |
20110051676 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RESOURCE SELECTION IN OFDMA SYSTEMS - A base station for use in a wireless network that communicates with mobile stations according to the IEEE 802.16 | 03-03-2011 |
20110150108 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING RESOURCE ALLOCATION INFORMATION IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving resource allocation information in a communication system are provided, in which a Base Station (BS) transmits resource allocation information including a folding bitmap and a Zone Flag (ZF). The folding bitmap provides zone configuration information about zones included in a subframe and the ZF indicates whether a last zone of the zones is allocated as a first service zone or a second service zone. The first service zone carries data for a first service, the second service zone carries data for a second service, and each of the first and second services zones includes at least one resource unit. | 06-23-2011 |
20110176501 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING MULTI-USER COLLABORATIVE SPATIAL MULTIPLEXING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus operate multi-user Collaborative Spatial Multiplexing (CSM) in a wireless communication system. A Base Station (BS), performs uplink transmission scheduling on multiple Mobile Stations (MSs). Resources units, which have been allocated to multiple layers spatially discriminated by the uplink transmission scheduling, are permutated by applying different permutation schemes according to layers. Uplink data is received from the scheduled MSs through the permutated resource units. Each MS uses permutation schemes according to the layers allocated in a manner corresponding to the BS. Therefore, when the multi-user CSM is used, self-interferences or interferences between layers are averaged, thereby reducing variable widths of parameters of various kinds and improving the prediction property of a received SINR. As a result, a Packet Error Ratio (PER) performance is improved when data is actually transmitted. | 07-21-2011 |
20110205905 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING ASYMMETRIC CARRIER AGGREGATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for transmitting feedback information of an asymmetric frequency band in a wireless communication system supporting multiple bands are provided. The feedback information transmission method includes, when at least two frequency bands used by a mobile station includes at least one asymmetric frequency band, confirming feedback channel information for the asymmetric frequency band based on system channel information of the asymmetric frequency band, and transmitting feedback information for the asymmetric frequency band over the confirmed feedback channel. The feedback channel information includes feedback channel information for the asymmetric frequency band allocated to a symmetric frequency band. | 08-25-2011 |
20110261677 | Apparatus and method for supporting various system bandwidths in a broadband wireless communication system - An apparatus and method support various system bandwidths in a broadband wireless communication system. A Mobile Station (MS) operation includes determining a system bandwidth through a primary preamble for frame synchronization, which a Base Station (BS) transmits. A Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) size, the number of guard subcarriers, and the number of used subcarriers corresponding to the system bandwidth are determined using a first table. An operation parameter of a modem is set according to the FFT size, the number of guard subcarriers, and the number of used subcarriers. | 10-27-2011 |
20110268008 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MULTICAST BROADCAST SERVICE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THAT USES MULTI-CARRIER - A method for operating a base station for Multicast Broadcast Services (MBS) in a wireless communication system that uses a multi-carrier is provided. In the method, MBS capability exchange is performed on a terminal using a primary carrier. A first message for configuring at least one MBS service flow is received from the terminal. A second message is transmitted to the terminal in response to the first message. The second message includes switching information between the primary carrier and a secondary carrier. MBS data is transmitted using the secondary carrier. | 11-03-2011 |
20120008558 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A SOUNDING ANTENNA SWITCHING SCHEME IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a mobile communication system, an Advanced Mobile Station (AMS) sends, to an Advanced Base Station (ABS), a message including information indicating whether the AMS supports a sounding antenna switching scheme. If the information indicates that the AMS supports the sounding antenna switching scheme, the message including the information includes information indicating an antenna configuration that the AMS desires to use in a sounding antenna switching operation. | 01-12-2012 |
20120020271 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO ENABLE SWITCHING BETWEEN TWO CARRIERS IN A CELLULAR COMMUNICATION NETWORK - For use in a wireless communication network, a subscriber station is capable of switching carriers. The subscriber station is configured to receive an N-bit bitmap from the communication network and determine at least one unicast available interval based on an arrangement of the N bits in the N-bit bitmap. The subscriber station is also configured to switch from a first carrier to a second carrier at a start of the at least one unicast available interval. | 01-26-2012 |
20120088539 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING CELL TO INCREASE TRANSMISSION CAPACITY IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus is configured to perform a method for selecting a cell to increase transmission capacity in a wireless communication system. A Mobile Station (MS) can select a cell in a heterogeneous network system. The MS can receive a loading indicator for each of a plurality of Base Stations (BS); measure signal strength information for each of the BSs; and select one of the BSs using the loading indicator and the signal strength information. Therefore, the transmission efficiency of the system can be increased. | 04-12-2012 |
20120115535 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPLINK POWER CONTROL USING RANGING SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for uplink power control using a ranging signal in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes transmitting ranging channel information to a pico Base Station (BS), receiving power control information on a macro terminal from the pico BS, controlling a transmit power strength for the macro terminal based on the power control information, and instructing the macro terminal to control a transmit power to the controlled strength. | 05-10-2012 |
20120178454 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING IDENTIFIER OF SMALL CELL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM HAVING HIERARCHICAL CELL STRUCTURE - A method and an apparatus for obtaining a small cell identifier in a wireless communication system having a hierarchical cell structure are provided. The method includes obtaining a small cell identifier of a terminal in a wireless communication system of a hierarchical cell structure, transmitting resource information allocated for a Random Access Channel (RACH) of a terminal to a small base station, receiving state information regarding the RACH of the terminal from the small base station, determining at least one small base station adjacent to the terminal using the state information regarding the RACH, and transmitting cell IDentifier (ID) information of the determined small base station to the terminal. | 07-12-2012 |
20120178468 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING HIGH-SPEED MOBILE TERMINALS IN A DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for supporting a high-speed mobile terminal in a distributed antenna system. The method includes acquiring information on a position and a speed of each terminal of a plurality of terminals, mapping the plurality of terminals to at least one or more terminal groups based on at least one or more of the position or the speed of the terminal, determining a service end time point at a serving antenna node and a service start time point at a target antenna node, using position and speed information associated with the terminal group, and switching an antenna node for the terminal group, according to the service end time point at the serving antenna node and the service start time point at the target antenna node. | 07-12-2012 |
20120190365 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING HANDOVER IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK - A method for operating a terminal for supporting a handover in a heterogeneous network is provided. The method includes measuring received signal strength from a target small base station, so that a Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) is estimated, when the SNR of the target small base station that considers a biased value for range expansion is greater than an SNR of a serving macro base station, determining whether an SNR of the target small base station that does not consider the biased value for the range expansion is equal to or less than a threshold, and when the SNR of the target small base station that does not consider the biased value for the range expansion is equal to or less than the threshold, transmitting indication information, informing that a low SNR is expected when the terminal performs a handover to the target small base station, to the serving macro base station. | 07-26-2012 |
20120208578 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPLINK POWER CONTROL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for uplink power control in a wireless communication system are provided. More specially, a method is provided in which a first base station in a wireless communication system periodically measures interference for a cell of a second base station neighboring the first base station, determines an average of the periodically measured interference, broadcasts the determined average of the periodically measured interference to mobile terminals located in a cell of the first base station, determines a weight for the determined average of the periodically measured interference, based on one of resource allocation information for the cell of the second base station and whether a specific message for interference regulation is received from the second base station, and transmits the determined weight to the mobile terminals. | 08-16-2012 |
20130021952 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING INFORMATION FOR RANDOM ACCESS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and a Base Station (BS) of transmitting information for Random Access (RA) by a base station in a wireless communication system are provided. The BS generates RA information for beam alignment between the base station and each of a plurality of mobile terminals based on a number of reception beam forming patterns of the base station used for each of one or more RA channels and broadcasts the RA information to the plurality of mobile terminals. The RA information comprises information related to the number of reception beam forming patterns of the base station used for each of the one or more RA channels. | 01-24-2013 |
20130039345 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE BEAM-FORMING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Apparatuses and methods for maintaining an optimal beam direction in a wireless communication system are provided. The method for operating a receiving node in a wireless communication system includes, determining a first transmission beam is determined as a preferred transmission beam using a plurality of reference signals transmitted by a transmitting node, generating preferred transmission beam information, transmitting the preferred transmission beam information to the transmitting node, receiving transmissions from the transmitting node via the first transmission beam, and determining whether a change of a transmission beam is necessary. When the change of the transmission beam is determined to be necessary, generating a beam change request and transmitting the beam change request to the transmitting node. | 02-14-2013 |
20130040684 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BEAM TRACKING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for tracking a beam in a wireless communication system are provided. In the method, a plurality of downlink reference signals are received from a base station and at least one downlink transmission beam pattern is determined. A plurality of uplink reference signals are transmitted to the base station, each includes identifier information corresponding to the determined at least one downlink transmission beam pattern. ACKnowledgement (ACK) information indicating that the base station has successfully received an identifier included in the identifier information corresponding to the determined at least one downlink transmission beam pattern from identifier information corresponding to an uplink transmission beam pattern and that the plurality of uplink reference signals from the base station is received. | 02-14-2013 |
20130059619 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING BEST BEAM IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for selecting the best beam in a wireless communication system are provided. An operation of a Base Station (BS) includes repeatedly transmitting reference signals beamformed with a first width, receiving a feedback signal indicating at least one preferred-beam having the first width from at least one terminal, determining a direction range within which reference signals beamformed with a second width are to be transmitted and a transmission pattern, based on the at least one preferred-beam having the first width, repeatedly transmitting the reference signals beamformed with the second width within the determined direction range according to the transmission pattern, and receiving a feedback signal indicating at least one preferred-beam having the second width from the at least one terminal. | 03-07-2013 |
20130064239 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING AND OBTAINING SYSTEM INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A base station and terminal use methods of obtaining synchronization and system information in a wireless communication system. An operation of a base station includes generating a synchronization signal to be transmitted through a Synchronization Channel (SCH), generating a broadcast signal to be transmitted through a Broadcast Channel (BCH), and transmitting repetitively the SCH and the BCH by performing beamforming on the channels with different transmission beams. | 03-14-2013 |
20130072243 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BEAM ALLOCATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A beam allocation method of a Base Station (BS) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting a reference signal to a Mobile Station (MS) using a plurality of downlink transmit (Tx) beams, receiving information of a plurality of candidate downlink Tx beams determined by the MS in response to the received reference signal, selecting at least one downlink Tx beam from the plurality of candidate downlink Tx beams according to a predefined rule, generating control information for burst transmission, comprising the selected at least one downlink Tx beam information, transmitting the control information to the MS using the selected at least one downlink Tx beam, and transmitting a data burst based on Tx beam information included in the control information. | 03-21-2013 |
20130072244 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BEAM SELECTING IN BEAMFORMED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for reducing delay during beam alignment in a beamformed wireless communication system are provided. A method for selecting a beam pattern in a Base Station (BS) includes determining whether a direction finding signal is received through each time interval of a direction finding channel, transmitting information of whether the direction finding signal is received with respect to each time interval of the direction finding channel, changing a receive beam pattern and receiving a random access signal from a Mobile Station (MS) with at least one transmit beam pattern over a random access channel, and selecting one of transmit beam patterns of the MS and one of receive beam patterns of the BS according to the random access signal. | 03-21-2013 |
20130172002 | BEAMFORMING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACQUIRING TRANSMISSION BEAM DIVERSITY IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A data transmission method for a base station to acquire transmission beam diversity in a wireless communication system is provided. The data transmission method includes selecting at least two transmission beams to be used for data transmission from among multiple transmission beams corresponding to transmission beam information, if receiving the transmission beam information regarding the multiple transmission beams from a terminal, and transmitting data encoded with a predetermined orthogonalization code to the terminal via the selected at least two transmission beams. | 07-04-2013 |
20130201938 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING UPLINK RESOURCES IN BEAMFORMING-BASED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for requesting Uplink (UL) resource allocation in a beamforming-based wireless communication system are provided. A Mobile Station (MS) acquires UL beam pair information indicating a best MS transmit beam and a best Base Station (BS) receive beam for UL transmission, determines a best BS transmit beam for Downlink (DL) reception, selects a Bandwidth Request (BR) code and a BR channel from available BR codes and a designated BR transmit resource, wherein at least one of the BR code and the BR channel is mapped to at least one of the best BS receive beam and the best BS transmit beam, and transmits the selected BR code to a BS over the selected BR channel. The BS allocates a UL resource for transmission of a BR message and UL data considering the best BS receive beam. | 08-08-2013 |
20130258885 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING BEAM INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and a mobile station of transmitting beam information by a mobile station in a wireless communication system are provided. The mobile station determines whether a particular a particular event according to communication with a base station has occurred, and transmits information on at least one DownLink (DL) transmission beam among N number of DL transmission beams to the base station using a contention-based feedback channel according to a result of the determination. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258972 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN ANALOG/DIGITAL MIXED BF SYSTEM - A millimeter radio wave communication system. In a method for operating a base station (BS) in an analog/digital mixed BF system, an analog BF direction is determined. A digital BF precoder is determined for the determined analog BF direction. Digital BF precoding is performed using the digital BF precoder with respect to the determined analog BF direction. A DownLink Reference Signal (DL RS) is transmitted in the analog BF direction on which the digital BF precoding has been performed. | 10-03-2013 |
20130260772 | MULTI-TIER CLUSTERING APPARATUS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus and a method for configuring and managing/controlling a cluster, which is a set of Base Stations (BSs) for transmitting signals cooperatively, are provided. The method includes broadcasting cluster set information indicating information about a plurality of clusters including a serving BS to a User Equipment (UE), receiving a report of information about Received Signal Strength Indicators (RSSIs) of control signals transmitted from BSs included in the plurality of clusters from the UE, and assigning any one of the plurality of clusters to a cluster for servicing the UE based on the information about the RSSIs of the control signals. | 10-03-2013 |
20130301454 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS USING ANALOG AND DIGITAL HYBRID BEAMFORMING - A communication method and apparatus using analog and digital hybrid beamforming are provided. The method includes receiving a first message including a measurement and selection condition for hybrid beamforming from a Base Station (BS), measuring channels of a plurality of BS transmission beams, selecting at least one BS transmission beam based on channel measurements, transmitting report information about the selected at least one BS transmission beam to the BS, receiving from the BS a second message, estimating an effective channel matrix for the selected final BS transmission beam according to the measurement and report condition, determining feedback information for digital beamforming of the BS based on the effective channel matrix, transmitting the determined feedback information to the BS, and receiving a data burst from the BS according to a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) mode and/or a configuration scheduled based on the feedback information. | 11-14-2013 |
20130301567 | SCHEME FOR PERFORMING BEAMFORMING IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of performing beamforming in a base station is provided. The method includes receiving random access channel signals transmitted in one or more transmit beams from a terminal, using one or more receive beams, determining at least one best transmit beam from the one or more transmit beams and at least one best receive beam from the one or more receive beams, and transmitting information about the best transmit beam and the best receive beam to the terminal. | 11-14-2013 |
20130343303 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS USING BEAMFORMING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication method and an apparatus using beamforming in a wireless communication system are provided. The communication method includes determining a candidate user set including one or more Mobile Stations (MSs), for Multiple User-Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) transmission, transmitting beam information indicating best Base Station (BS) transmission beams of the MSs of the candidate user set to the MSs of the candidate user set, receiving Precoding Matrix Index (PMI) information indicating a PMI to be used for baseband precoding from each of the MSs of the candidate user set, the PMI information being determined based on the beam information, and transmitting a signal precoded based on the PMI information to at least one MS. | 12-26-2013 |
20140056256 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE BEAM-FORMING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Apparatuses and methods for maintaining an optimal beam direction in a wireless communication system are provided. The method for operating a receiving node in a wireless communication system includes, determining a first transmission beam is determined as a preferred transmission beam using a plurality of reference signals transmitted by a transmitting node, generating preferred transmission beam information, transmitting the preferred transmission beam information to the transmitting node, receiving transmissions from the transmitting node via the first transmission beam, and determining whether a change of a transmission beam is necessary. When the change of the transmission beam is determined to be necessary, generating a beam change request and transmitting the beam change request to the transmitting node. | 02-27-2014 |
20140105050 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEAMLESS HANDOVER OPERATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for improving a mobile problem caused by a narrow handover region in a boundary region between virtual cells constructed by a plurality of small base stations are provided. A plurality of Virtual Cells (VCs) include a plurality of Distributed Base Stations (DBSs) whose VCs cooperatively communicate with each other. An Intermediate Distributed Base Station (I-DBS) is located in a region where adjacent at least two VCs among the plurality of VCs are superimposed, and belongs to a different VC according to a time division scheme. | 04-17-2014 |
20140146863 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BEAMFORMING GAIN DIFFERENCE COMPENSATION ACCORDING TO CHANGE OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING BEAM PATTERN IN BEAMFORMING BASED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of operating a Mobile Station (MS) in a wireless communication system using beamforming includes receiving a reference signal over a plurality of downlink transmit (Tx) beams, measuring channel quality information of the received reference signal, and generating effective channel quality information by compensating for beamforming gain compensation information according to the channel quality information. | 05-29-2014 |
20140177687 | MODULATION METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH CONSIDERATION OF ADAPTIVE HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A modulation method and an apparatus with consideration of adaptive Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) in a wireless communication system are provided. The method of a transmission end supporting a hybrid modulation technique in which different types of modulation schemes are mixed, information of a channel state with a reception end is collected. A modulation order of a first type of a modulation scheme and a modulation order of a second type of a modulation scheme are determined. The modulation order of a first type of a modulation scheme and a modulation order of a second type of a modulation scheme form the hybrid modulation technique. | 06-26-2014 |
20140177756 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING SIGNAL IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for transmitting a signal by a signal transmission apparatus in a communication system is provided. The method includes detecting a parameter related to a Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) scheme and a parameter related to a Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) scheme based on channel quality and an interference component, and modulating information bits using a modulation scheme based on the QAM scheme and the FSK scheme which uses the parameter related to the QAM scheme and the parameter related to the FSK scheme. | 06-26-2014 |
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20140341168 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING ASYMMETRIC CARRIER AGGREGATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for operating a mobile station in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes receiving first information transmitted on a secondary carrier from a base station, and transmitting second information for feedback related to the secondary carrier at a feedback region in a primary carrier based on the first information to the base station. | 11-20-2014 |