Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100173640 | Single User Multiple Input Multiple Output User Equipment - In accordance with the exemplary embodiments of the invention there is at least a method, apparatus, and a computer program to perform operations including receiving information descriptive of a type of radio access which a user equipment is acting on, and in response to receiving the information descriptive of a particular type of radio access, transmitting from a multiple transmit antenna user equipment so that the transmission appears, at a receiver, to have been made by a single antenna user equipment, or by a user equipment that supports antenna switching/selection. | 07-08-2010 |
20100202311 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CHANNEL STATE REPORTING - An approach is provided for optimizing the timing scheme for channel state reporting. A platform determines an offset value for each of a plurality of user equipment. The offset value relates to timing between a channel state measurement point and a corresponding point for reporting of the channel state measurement. The platform further initiates signaling of the offset values to the respective user equipment. | 08-12-2010 |
20100248708 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Product for Reducing Outage Probability for Mobile Devices - An apparatus for enabling dual mode communication may include a processor. The processor may be configured to receive ( | 09-30-2010 |
20110086657 | CELL SEARCH FOR FLEXIBLE SPECTRUM USE - Structure of a multi-carrier flexible spectrum wireless cell is determined from received synchronization or broadcast channels of detected individual carriers. The determined structure is used to select an intended carrier for initial access or cell reselection to the flexible spectrum wireless cell. The structure may have carriers compatible with an earlier version (LTE/Release | 04-14-2011 |
20110092200 | INTERFERENCE AVOIDANCE ON COMMON CHANNELS IN UNCOORDINATED NETWORK DEPLOYMENTS WITH FLEXIBLE SPECTRUM USE - A network access node selects one chunk of spectrum from a plurality of chunks of spectrum to be a primary chunk for a particular cell; transmits in the primary chunk from a broadcast channel BCH that contains information needed by a terminal to at least perform initial cell access; and uses a synchronization channel SCH to indicate which chunk of the plurality of chunks is the primary chunk. A user equipment receives a SCH in a particular chunk of spectrum; determines from it that one chunk is a primary chunk for a particular cell; tunes its receiver to a BCH in the primary chunk and uses information received on the BCH to obtain initial access to the particular cell. In various embodiments the SCH is only in the primary chunk or the SCH has some indication (e.g., cell ID or relative position of primary chunk) telling which chunk is primary. | 04-21-2011 |
20110211569 | METHOD, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR TRANSMISSION DIVERSITY - The invention is related to an apparatus comprising: a grouper configured to group antennas into antenna groups, if more antennas suitable for transmission are provided than pilot resources per a time slot; a rotator configured to rotate selected symbols with antenna-specific or antenna group-specific, and/or data symbol-specific phases; a transmitter configured to transmit symbols using a first antenna or antenna group of a user device and the rotated symbols using at least one second antenna or antenna group of the user device. | 09-01-2011 |
20110243098 | CODEBOOK SUBSET RESTRICTION BASED ON CODEBOOK GROUPING - A method and apparatus are provided for an apparatus. The apparatus includes at least one memory including computer program code, and at least one processor. The at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to receive an indication of a set of codeword groups to be included in a codebook, and to select a precoding matrix index based on the indicated set of codeword groups in the codebook. The apparatus is also cause to transmit the precoding matrix index to a network node. | 10-06-2011 |
20110243107 | Structure for OTA ENB-ENB Communication - According to one general aspect, an apparatus may include a processor. In various embodiments, the processor may be configured to select either an uplink sub-frame or a special sub-frame to employ for base station-to-base station (B2B) communication in some embodiments, the processor may be configured to cause at least one user equipment (UE), associated with the apparatus, to either refrain from transmitting or substantially receiving during the selected sub-frame In various embodiments, the processor may be configured to transmit data, from the apparatus to a receiving BS, during at least a portion of the selected sub-frame. | 10-06-2011 |
20110317611 | Systems, Methods, Apparatuses, and Computer Program Products for Coordinating Communications Between Network Nodes - A system method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for coordinating communications between network nodes. A method may include transmitting an information message related to a first network node implementing broadcasting-and-extracting mode to a neighboring network node implementing collecting-and-broadcasting mode during a first time interval. The method may further include receiving a collective information message package from the neighboring network node during a second time interval. The collective information message package may include one or more information messages received by the neighboring network node during the first time interval and an information message related to the neighboring network node. Corresponding systems, computer program products, and apparatuses are also provided. | 12-29-2011 |
20120026964 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIGNALING OF INTERFERING SPATIAL LAYERS WITH DEDICATED REFERENCE SIGNAL - An apparatus, method and system for signaling of interfering spatial layers with dedicated reference signals in a communication system. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a processor ( | 02-02-2012 |
20120082042 | CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FEEDBACK FOR ENHANCED DOWNLINK MULTIPLE INPUT - MULTIPLE OUTPUT OPERATION - In accordance with the exemplary embodiments of the invention there is deriving multiple input-multiple output feedback information using a set of precoding matrices associated with at least one precoding codebook, signaling, in a first plurality of resource elements, channel state information associated with a first precoding matrix indicator of the set of precoding matrices jointly with a transmission rank, and signaling separately, in a second plurality of resource elements, channel state information associated with a second precoding matrix indicator of the set of precoding matrices. In addition, there is receiving signaling in a first plurality of resource elements of channel state information associated with a first precoding matrix indicator of a set of precoding matrices jointly with a transmission rank, receiving signaling separately in a second plurality of resource elements of channel state information associated with a second precoding matrix indicator of the set of precoding matrices, and controlling a downlink multiple input-multiple output transmission in accordance with the received signaling. | 04-05-2012 |
20120099544 | Enhanced Inter-Network Access Node Scheduling Coordination And Signaling Support For Advanced Receiver Algorithms - A method includes operating a network access node to determine, in cooperation with at least one other network access node, a coordinated scheduling granularity having a plurality of physical resource blocks; and signaling an indication of the determined coordinated scheduling granularity to at least one mobile device served by the network access node for use in enhancing estimation at a receiver of the mobile device, such as when estimating an interference covariance matrix. Apparatus for performing the method is also disclosed, as are mobile device methods and apparatus for receiving and using the signaling. | 04-26-2012 |
20120113794 | MULTIPLE USER MIMO INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHODS - Systems and methods for providing an efficient mechanism for transmitting interference vectors to communications terminals, such as user equipments (UEs), in an over the air radio telecommunications network with spatially multiplexed multiple user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) capability. A new pre-coding information downlink channel is defined. Messages containing semi-persistent interference vector information for MU-MIMO user equipment are defined and transmitted over the new channel in a manner that allows infrequent transmission and efficient use of resources. Using the interference vectors and applying inter-user interference adaptation to received messages, the UEs may receive spatially multiplexed MIMO transmissions and actively remove inter-user interference after reception of the messages. Compression of the pre-coding vector information transmitted over the pre-coding information channel may result in additional increases in efficiency in the system. | 05-10-2012 |
20120188962 | Apparatus and Method for Non-Codebook Based Precoding - An apparatus and a method are provided. The provided solution includes a controller configured to determine a transmission mode for user equipment, the transmission mode including non-codebook precoding with fixed precoding granularity; and to control a transceiver to transmit information on the selected transmission mode to the user equipment. | 07-26-2012 |
20120282935 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEFINING RESOURCE ELEMENTS FOR THE PROVISION OF CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION REFERENCE SIGNALS - Methods, apparatus and computer program products define additional resource elements of a physical resource block (PRB) to be allocated for the provision of channel state information reference signals in a manner that does not create issues relating to backwards compatibility for legacy mobile terminals. A method may include receiving a definition of a plurality of resource elements of a PRB to be allocated for provision of channel state information reference signals. At least some of the plurality of resource elements of the PRB that are allocated for the provision of channel state information reference signals correspond in position to resource elements of the PRB that are interpreted by a different type of mobile terminal to be muted. The method also causes, channel state information reference signals to be received via the plurality of resource elements of the PRB that are allocated for the provision of channel state information reference signals. | 11-08-2012 |
20130010880 | Feedback Framework for MIMO Operation in Heterogeneous Communication Network - There is provided a mechanism providing a flexible feedback framework operating in different scenarios, such as heterogeneous network deployments. Antenna information are sent from a scheduler element to a UE, the antenna information including information indicating a grouping of one or more antenna in closely spaced antenna groups of one or more transmit points. The UE selects at least one of precoding codewords and amplitude weight parameters for each closely spaced antenna group, and determines information related to a sub-band precoder and a transmit point related combiner. The processing results are indicated to the scheduler by means of sending indices related to a wide-band long-term precoder and a sub-band short-term precoder. The scheduler processes these results for determining a joint precoder. | 01-10-2013 |
20130058285 | SPATIAL HASHING FOR ENHANCED CONTROL CHANNEL SEARCH SPACES - The present invention provides a method, apparatus and a computer program product for spatial hashing for enhanced control channel search spaces. The present invention includes defining a control channel search space for searching for control channel candidates, defining search space locations within the search space, grouping the search space locations into a plurality of subsets of search space locations, associating each subset of search space locations with an antenna port, for each of a plurality of subframes, changing the search space locations from a first subset of search space locations to a second subset of search space locations. | 03-07-2013 |
20130058424 | Codebook Design and Structure for Multi-Granular Feedback - A first precoding matrix W | 03-07-2013 |
20130064129 | Apparatus, Method and Computer Program Product for Selecting Beam Group and Subset of Beams in Communication System - An apparatus and method for selecting a beam group and a subset of beams in a communication system are disclosed. The method includes: measuring channel state information (CSI) on a downlink from a base station ( | 03-14-2013 |
20130077707 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULITPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA ARRAYS - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for reporting low rank feedback information for each transmission point up to a maximum rank per transmission point. In this regard, a method includes determining a transmission rank and a precoding matrix for each of at least two transmission points of a plurality of transmission points. A method also includes determining a joint transmission rank based on at least two of the plurality of transmission points. A method also includes selecting a joint transmission precoding matrix based on the determined precoding matrix for each of the at least two transmission points and the determined joint transmission rank. The method further includes causing channel state information “CSI” to be transmitted to an access point, wherein the CSI describes the selected joint transmission precoding matrix. | 03-28-2013 |
20130114427 | Cooperative Multipoint Scheme Selection Codebook - A network sends to a user equipment UE a reference signal configuration, and from receiving it the UE selects a codeword identifying a cooperative multipoint CoMP transmission scheme. There is a CoMP scheme selection codebook from which the UE selects the codeword corresponding to its recommended CoMP scheme. The UE sends to the network that codeword which identifies the CoMP transmission scheme, along with the CSI feedback characterizing the CoMP transmission scheme. From that codeword which the network receives it determines the UE's assumed CoMP transmission scheme, which the network uses to determine how the CSI feedback, received from the UE, was calculated by the UE (for example, joint transmission, or dynamic point selection with or without muting, or coordinating scheduling/beamforming). The network uses this information for selecting a CoMP transmission scheme for downlink CoMP transmissions to the UE. | 05-09-2013 |
20130114428 | Devices and Methods Related to Improvements in Coordinated Multipoint Transmission Arrangements - For coordinated multipoint transmission arrangements there is provided a device, including a controller module, configured to control a plurality of transmission points, each constituted by a set of at least one transmit antenna, to transmit data to another device in a coordinated transmission from at least a subset of the plurality of transmission points, wherein each subset with resources allocated thereto defines a respective coordinated transmission scheme, wherein the controller module is configured to transmit information on resources pertaining to multiple coordinated transmission schemes, and send at least one biasing parameter associated to at least one of the transmission schemes, to be applied for biasing a channel quality parameter. Another device includes a controller module, configured to report feedback responsive to such coordinated transmission, and the controller module is, among others, configured to apply the at least one biasing parameter to derived channel quality parameters. | 05-09-2013 |
20130114430 | Devices and Methods Related to Controlling UE Assumption of Interference - To control UE assumption of interference there is a controller module to control a plurality of transmission points, each constituted by a set of at least one transmit antenna, to transmit data to another device in a coordinated transmission from at least a subset of the plurality of transmission points. The controller module is configured to allocate, to each resource linked to the subset of the plurality of transmission points, an interference contribution parameter that is indicative of an expected interference contribution originating from said transmission point, and to inform said another device of those resources to which the subset of the plurality of transmission points is linked, together with the respective interference contribution parameter allocated to each resource. Another device reports feedback based on signals which are scaled with the respective interference contribution parameter. | 05-09-2013 |
20130114431 | Efficient Signaling of Common Reference Signal shifts and Physical Downlink Control Channel Region Mismatch in Coordinated Multipoint Transmission - Information about a set of cells potentially taking part in coordinated multipoint transmission is obtained, information about at least one of reference signal configuration and data region size configuration for each of the set of cells is obtained, further an indication of which of the reference signals configuration and the data region size configuration should be assumed in resource mapping for data is obtained, and data according to the resource mapping is received. Information about at least one of reference signal configuration and data region size configuration for each cell of a set of cells potentially taking part in coordinated multipoint transmission is provided, and an indication of which of the reference signals configuration and the data region size configuration should be assumed in resource mapping for data is provided. | 05-09-2013 |
20130195047 | METHOD AND APPARATUS IMPLEMENTING CHANNEL QUALITY CONTROL - Methods for devices, devices and computer program products for devices relate to a communication module, arranged for packet based communication, and including a receiving module. The receiving module is arranged to receive a control message, wherein the control message includes a plurality of acknowledgement information items, wherein each of the plurality of acknowledgement information items are located in a preset portion of the control message, respectively. The device further includes a determination module, arranged to determine whether the received control message is intended for the device, a selection module, arranged to select, responsive to an affirmative determination result, at least one of the plurality of acknowledgement information items based on the preset portions, and an obtaining module, arranged to obtain control data contained in the selected at least one of the plurality of acknowledgement information items. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195051 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ENHANCED INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION - A method is provided that includes allocating a first subset of resource elements (REs) of a physical resource block (PRB) to a mobile terminal and associating one or more first demodulation reference symbols (DM-RS) ports therewith. The first subset of REs and the one or more first DM-RS ports have common interference characteristics, thereby providing for enhanced interference suppression. The method also includes causing transmission of the PRB for reception by the mobile terminal. Corresponding apparatus and computer program products are also provided. | 08-01-2013 |
20130223255 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION - An apparatus and method for communication are provided. The solution includes controlling the estimation of a radio channel to obtain an estimate of a channel quality, performing quantization of the estimate of the channel quality to obtain a channel quality index, the quantization steps being of non-uniform size and selected on the basis of the accuracy of the estimation on different levels of channel quality, and controlling the transmission of the channel quality index to the communication system. | 08-29-2013 |
20130242764 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING FEEDBACK IN MULTIPOINT TRANSMISSIONS - An apparatus and a method are provided, which, for example in a user equipment, measure a transmission channel based on reference resources with respect to at least two transmission points, establish a feedback report based on the measurement, the feedback report including a plurality of channel feedback information related to each transmission point, and send the feedback report on a physical uplink control channel. | 09-19-2013 |
20130244676 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR CONFIGURING USER EQUIPMENT - Examples are described relating to methods, apparatus and computer programs for configuring a user equipment in a cellular wireless network. Certain exemplary methods involve receiving ( | 09-19-2013 |
20140056265 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING RESOURCE ELEMENTS FOR THE PROVISION OF CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION REFERENCE SIGNALS - Methods, apparatus and computer program products define additional resource elements of a physical resource block (PRB) to be allocated for the provision of channel state information reference signals in a manner that does not create issues relating to backwards compatibility for legacy mobile terminals. A method may include receiving a definition of a plurality of resource elements of a PRB to be allocated for provision of channel state information reference signals. At least some of the plurality of resource elements of the PRB that are allocated for the provision of channel state information reference signals correspond in position to resource elements of the PRB that are interpreted by a different type of mobile terminal to be muted. The method also causes channel state information reference signals to be received via the plurality of resource elements of the PRB that are allocated for the provision of channel state information reference signals. | 02-27-2014 |
20140112195 | FEEDBACK DESIGN OF HIERARCHICAL COORDINATED MULTIPOINT TRANSMISSION - The present invention provides a method, apparatus and a computer program product for feedback design of hierarchical coordinated multipoint transmission. The present invention includes obtaining, at a user equipment, a list including a predetermined number of cells, identifying, at the user equipment, a cooperation set of cells including the cell serving the user equipment, determining, at the user equipment, for each cell included in the list whether the cell belongs to the identified cooperation set of the user equipment, and if the cell belongs to the cooperation set of the user equipment, reporting a first predetermined set of parameters, and if the cell does not belong to the cooperation set of the user equipment, reporting a second predetermined set of parameters. | 04-24-2014 |
20140146719 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR INTERFERENCE MITIGATION VIA CHANNEL RESERVATION IN LA TDD NETWORK - Apparatuses, methods and computer program products are proposed, by which resource elements in an uplink transmission of a user equipment are determined, on which interference may be caused and which are to be muted in the uplink transmission, and wherein the user equipment is configured to mute resource elements based on the determined resource elements. | 05-29-2014 |
20140269456 | Method, an Apparatus and a Computer Program Product for Flexible TDD Configuration - The invention relates to the radio interface between an apparatus for wireless communication and a network element, comprising flexible uplink/downlink configuration for time division duplex. The method comprises detecting a parameter indicating interference in a subframe of a time division duplex configuration; assigning a priority Physical Resource Block set for a flexible subframe; and scheduling the connection for a wireless apparatus according to the priority Physical Resource Block set. | 09-18-2014 |
20140355703 | Codeword Structure For Multi-Structured Codebooks - A multi-structured codebook includes a wideband codebook portion C(W | 12-04-2014 |