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20080232240 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION WITHIN A MULTI-CARRIER COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for performing resource allocation with lower required overhead is provided herein. Resource allocations for data transmissions are chosen in such a way as to provide channel quality information for various parts of the channel bandwidth (frequency selective channel quality information), such as allocating two different resource blocks (on different sets of subcarriers) to a mobile unit for two different transmissions. These data transmissions are used to estimate frequency selective channel quality information, thereby eliminating or greatly reducing the need for channel sounding with a broadband pilot. As a result, the overhead on the uplink of the communication system may be significantly reduced. | 09-25-2008 |
20080310353 | Method and Apparatus to Facilitate Use of Default Transmitter-Receiver Configurations - A wireless communications system base station ( | 12-18-2008 |
20090046693 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMIT POWER CALIBRATION IN A FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXED WIRELESS SYSTEM - The present disclosure describes a method and apparatus for transmit power calibration in a frequency division multiplexed wireless system ( | 02-19-2009 |
20090047902 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMIT POWER CALIBRATION IN A FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXED WIRELESS SYSTEM - The present disclosure describes a method and apparatus for transmit power calibration in a frequency division multiplexed wireless system ( | 02-19-2009 |
20090109906 | ALLOCATING DOWNLINK ACKNOWLEDGEMENT RESOURCES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A wireless communication system ( | 04-30-2009 |
20090161749 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IFDMA RECEIVER ARCHITECTURE - A method and receiver for processing a composite signal ( | 06-25-2009 |
20090168730 | Pilot Signal Allocation Method and Apparatus - A pilot (or reference) transmission scheme is utilized where different transmitters are assigned pilot sequences with possibly different cyclic time shifts and different base pilot sequences. A pilot signal is transmitted concurrently by the transmitters in a plurality of pilot blocks, and a receiver processes the plurality of received pilot blocks to recover a channel estimate for at least one of the transmitters while suppressing the interference due to the pilot signals from the other transmitters. | 07-02-2009 |
20090203323 | UPLINK CONTROL SIGNALING IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A system and method for uplink control signaling in a communication system includes a step of transmitting ( | 08-13-2009 |
20090310589 | ADAPTIVE DC SUB-CARRIER HANDLING IN A RECEIVER - Receiving units will switch between performing a DC bias suppression and not removing the DC distortion at the receiver depending on the amount of DC interference level observed/measured/estimated. Since the overall DC interference is from all uplink transmitters, potentially at different power levels, the amount of DC distortion can be measured based on the difference between the received power level and the expected power level on the DC sub-carrier. Additionally it can be estimated based on the number of active transmitters, their allocation bandwidth, power control target and/or a rough estimate of the DC distortion introduced by each active transmitter and also the distortion introduced by the receiver. Once this distortion level is estimated, a decision is then made whether or not to remove the DC distortion. | 12-17-2009 |
20100029289 | INTERFERENCE REDUCTION FOR TERMINALS OPERATING ON NEIGHBORING BANDS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A wireless communication infrastructure entity in a wireless communication system implementing an uplink control channel using a narrowband frequency resource within a wideband frequency resource. The entity includes a controller communicably coupled to the transceiver wherein the controller is configured to cause the transceiver to signal a change of location for an uplink control channel within the wideband frequency resource. The uplink control channel includes at least a pair of uplink control channels separated within the wideband frequency resource and accommodates simultaneous uplink transmissions by multiple user equipment communicating in the wireless communication system. | 02-04-2010 |
20100034139 | Scheduling Grant Information Signaling in Wireless Communication System - A wireless communication infrastructure entity including a transceiver coupled to a controller configured to generate parity bits based on scheduling grant information and to encode the parity bits based on additional scheduling grant information not used to generate the parity bits, wherein the encoded parity bits combined with the scheduling grant information. The additional scheduling grant information may be transport block size or redundancy version information. | 02-11-2010 |
20100062716 | REFERENCE SIGNAL SEQUENCE REPRESENTATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A wireless communication device including a controller communicably coupled to a transceiver. In one embodiment, the controller generates a QPSK sequence having multiple elements wherein each element includes real and imaginary parts. In another embodiment, the sequence is selected from a groups of sequences stored on a user terminal. Thereafter, the controller generates a reference signal based on the information representative of the selected QPSK sequence. | 03-11-2010 |
20100110994 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING A PHYSICAL RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL IN AN OTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and eNode B are disclosed that allocate a Physical random access channel (PRACH) in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing communication system. In one embodiment, the eNode B maintains a predetermined location of a PRACH within a sub-frame, which predetermined location is adjacent to a Physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), allocates one or more sub-frames of a radio frame to a PRACH, and receives an access attempt over the PRACH based on the predetermined sub-frame location and the allocated one or more sub-frames. In another embodiment, the eNode B allocates one or more Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs) of one or more sub-frames of a PRACH hopping pattern period to a PRACH and informs a user equipment of the PRBs allocated for the PRACH by transmitting a first parameter informing of a slot configuration and a second parameter informing of a duration of a PRACH hopping period. | 05-06-2010 |
20100120442 | RESOURCE SHARING IN RELAY OPERATIONS WITHIN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A wireless communication relay terminal including a controller coupled to a transceiver wherein the controller is configured to cause the transceiver to transmit a first portion of a first sub-frame during a first time-frequency region to a wireless communication device, to cause the transceiver to receive, from a base station, a portion of a second sub-frame during a second time-frequency region wherein the first and second time-frequency regions are non-overlapping The controller is also configured to detect a control region within the portion of the second sub-frame received by attempting to decode information in a possible control region of the second sub-frame having at least one of several possible starting locations that are known a priori by the terminal. | 05-13-2010 |
20100165931 | Apparatus and Method for Communicating Control Information Over a Data Channel in the Absence of User Data - An apparatus and method for communicating control information (e.g., CQI, rank, and/or ACK/NACK) over a data channel (e.g., PUSCH) in the absence of user data includes storing a reference block size for transmission of control information of a first type (e.g., CQI) in memory of a wireless communication device. The reference block size is based on a predetermined quantity of information bits for the first type of control information. Responsive to a scheduling message containing an allocation of data channel transmission resources, the wireless device determines a quantity of the allocated resources to be encoded with control information of a second type (e.g., rank or ACK/NACK). The wireless device may further determine a quantity of the allocated resources to be encoded with control information of the first type and multiplex the encoded control information of the first and second types into a subframe for transmission over the data channel. | 07-01-2010 |
20100195583 | Physical Layer Acknowledgement Signaling Resource Allocation in Wireless Communication Systems - A downlink subframe on a single downlink carrier supports physical layer acknowledgment signaling for multiple physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmissions. The physical layer acknowledgement signaling may take the form of physical hybrid ARQ indicator channel (PHICH) signaling. A base unit reserves resource elements groups (REGs) for default PHICH signaling of default PUSCH transmissions. The base unit reserves control channel elements (CCEs) for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) signaling. A CCE contains multiple interleaved REGs. The base unit takes any unreserved CCEs and maps those CCEs for physical layer acknowledgement signaling of additional PUSCH transmissions. | 08-05-2010 |
20100195614 | Method and Apparatus for Transport Block Signaling in a Wireless Communication System - A method and apparatus for generating a single statically defined downlink reference MCS table consisting of transport block sizes (TBSs) computed for 29 MCSs for each of j PRBs where j=1, . . . , N | 08-05-2010 |
20100232373 | Resource Allocation in Wireless Communication Systems - A wireless communication terminal including a controller coupled to a wireless transceiver wherein the transceiver is configured to receive a first control message on an anchor carrier, the first control message including a resource assignment for the anchor carrier. The transceiver is also configured to receive a second control message on the anchor carrier, the second control message associated with a set of component carriers, the set of component carriers are distinct from the anchor carrier. The controller determines a resource assignment for at least one component carrier in the set of component carriers using both the first and the second control messages. | 09-16-2010 |
20100238845 | Relay Operation in a Wireless Communication System - A method in a relay node operating in a time division duplex system wherein the relay node transmits downlink pilot timeslot information to a user terminal in a first temporal region of a special sub-frame, communicates with a base station during a second temporal region of the special sub-frame, the second temporal region is configured as a guard period for communications between the relay node and the user terminal, and configures a third temporal region of the special sub-frame. | 09-23-2010 |
20100238984 | Spatial Information Feedback in Wireless Communication Systems - A wireless communication unit and method therein including generating a transmission waveform based on a mapping of at least one directly-modulated sequence to a set of radio resource elements, wherein the directly-modulated sequence is a product of at least one transmitted coefficient and a corresponding base sequence and the transmitted coefficient is based on a first channel corresponding to a first transmit antenna and a second channel corresponding to a second transmit antenna, and transmitting the transmission waveform from a transceiver of the wireless communication unit. | 09-23-2010 |
20100246455 | PHICH Resource Signaling in a Wireless Communication System - A wireless communication terminal and method for determining a number of Physical Hybrid ARQ Indicator Channel (PHICH) groups (N) in the downlink subframe based on a first parameter, a second parameter and a determined cyclic prefix (CP) duration, wherein the first parameter indicates a downlink system bandwidth in terms of a number of resource blocks and the second parameter indicates a scaling factor. The terminal receives downlink control signaling in a set of resource elements in the subframe, wherein the set of resource elements is determined based partly on the number of PHICH groups (N). | 09-30-2010 |
20100272091 | Uplink Scheduling Supoort in Multi-Carrier Wireless Communication Systems - A method in a wireless communication terminal that supports aggregated carrier access including determining uplink power headroom information for a first set of carriers assigned to the terminal, determining uplink buffer status indicating an amount of data in a terminal buffer available for E-DCH transmission, and transmitting a first composite report including the UPH information for the first set of carriers and the uplink buffer status information. | 10-28-2010 |
20100273515 | Uplink Scheduling Support in Multi-Carrier Wireless Communication Systems - A method in a wireless communication terminal that supports aggregated carrier access including determining power headroom for a first carrier based on first carrier control information, determining power headroom for at least one additional carrier based on the first carrier control information, and transmitting a power headroom report based on the power headroom of the first carrier or the power headroom of the at least one additional carrier. | 10-28-2010 |
20100279628 | Control Channel Provisioning and Signaling - There is provided a communication device and a base unit, and methods thereof, for determining control information. The communication device receives a control channel message associated with the communication device in a control region on a first carrier from a base unit. The communication device also determines a set of resources in a search space within the control region, attempts to decode the set of resources in the search space for the control channel message, and determines control information from the decoded control channel message. The base unit generates a control channel message comprising control information associated with the communication device, determines a set of resources in a search space within a control region, selects a subset of resources within the determined set of resources for transmitting the control channel message, and transmits the control channel message on the selected resources in the control region on a first carrier. | 11-04-2010 |
20100322115 | Reference Signal Sounding for Uplink Pilot Time Slot in Wireless Communication System - A wireless terminal operating in TDD mode transmits a plurality of sounding reference signals using an assigned maximum sounding reference signal (SRS) bandwidth (BW) size. At least one of the sounding reference signals is transmitted in a corresponding uplink pilot time slot (UpPTS) region of a special sub-frame of a radio frame wherein, in the frequency dimension, an uplink BW center is misaligned with a BW center of the SRS in the UpPTS region, a maximum SRS BW size in the UpPTS region is an even number of resource blocks with prime factors from a set of {2, 3, 5}, and the maximum SRS BW having a size in number of resource blocks less than or equal to (N | 12-23-2010 |
20110044259 | Subframe Component Reduction and Notification in a Heterogeneous Wireless Communication System - A wireless base unit ( | 02-24-2011 |
20110080896 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MITIGATING DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL INTERFERENCE | 04-07-2011 |
20110205978 | Multi-Carrier Control Signaling in Wireless Communication System - A method in a wireless communication terminal including monitoring a terminal specific search space of a first Component Carrier (CC) from a base unit, wherein the search space corresponds to a set of Physical Downlink Control CHannel (PDCCH) candidates monitored by the terminal for PDCCH messages, and receiving an activation message on the first CC, wherein the activation message activates at least one additional CC. The size of the search space monitored by the terminal after receiving the activation message is greater than the size of the search space monitored before receiving the activation message. | 08-25-2011 |
20110211542 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERLEAVING SEQUENCE ELEMENTS OF AN OFDMA SYNCRHONIZATION CHANNEL - A method and apparatus is provided for transmitting an orthogonal frequency domain multiple access (OFDMA) signal including a synchronization channel signal transmitted including a plurality of sequence elements interleaved in time and frequency. The synchronization channel signal sequence elements enable an initial acquisition and cell search method with low computational load by providing predetermined time domain symmetry for common sequence elements in OFDMA symbol periods for OFDMA symbol timing detection and frequency error detection in an OFDMA system supporting multiple system bandwidths, both synchronized and un-synchronized systems, a large cell index and an OFDMA symbol structure with both short and long cyclic prefix length. | 09-01-2011 |
20110222485 | Antenna Port Information Signaling in Wireless Communication System - A method in a wireless communication User Equipment (UE) includes receiving a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) message assigning a data transmission on a Physical Downlink Shared CHannel (PDSCH), wherein the PDCCH message includes scheduling information with a first New Data Indicator (NDI) bit field for a first transport block and a second New Data Indicator (NDI) bit field for a second transport block. The UE determines one or more antenna ports for the data transmission based on the NDI bit fields of the transport blocks, before receiving the assigned data transmission on the PDSCH. | 09-15-2011 |
20110268079 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INITIAL ACQUISITION AND CELL SEARCH FOR AN OFDMA SYSTEM - A method and apparatus is provided for transmitting an orthogonal frequency domain multiple access (OFDMA) signal including a synchronization channel signal transmitted within a localized portion of a bandwidth of the OFDMA signal, the synchronization channel signal having predetermined time domain symmetry within the localized portion of the bandwidth and including information for providing at least partial cell identification information. The synchronization channel signal enables an initial acquisition and cell search method with low computational load which provides OFDMA symbol timing detection and frequency error detection and frame boundary detection and cell specific information detection in an OFDMA system supporting multiple system bandwiths, both synchronized and un-synchronized systems, a large cell index and an OFDMA symbol structure with both short and long cyclic prefix length. | 11-03-2011 |
20110268104 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INITIAL ACQUISITION AND CELL SEARCH FOR AN OFDMA SYSTEM - A method and apparatus is provided for transmitting an orthogonal frequency domain multiple access (OFDMA) signal including a synchronization channel signal transmitted within a localized portion of a bandwidth of the OFDMA signal, the synchronization channel signal having predetermined time domain symmetry within the localized portion of the bandwidth and including information for providing at least partial cell identification information. The synchronization channel signal enables an initial acquisition and cell search method with low computational load which provides OFDMA symbol timing detection and frequency error detection and frame boundary detection and cell specific information detection in an OFDMA system supporting multiple system bandwidths, both synchronized and un-synchronized systems, a large cell index and an OFDMA symbol structure with both short and long cyclic prefix length. | 11-03-2011 |
20110274059 | MULTIPLEXING CONTROL AND DATA ON MULTILAYER UPLINK TRANSMISSIONS - The present disclosure relates to resource allocation in multi-layer transmissions in transmissions of user data and control information. A wireless terminal allocates resources in a multi-layer transmission for one more types of control information based on scheduling information and control allocation parameters. The multi-layer transmission includes control information and one or more user data streams that are mapped to multiple transmission layers and transmitted by the wireless terminal. | 11-10-2011 |
20110310837 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING ROUND TRIP LATENCY AND OVERHEAD WITHIN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - During operation radio frames are divided into a plurality of subframes. Data is transmitted over the radio frames within a plurality of subframes, and having a frame duration selected from two or more possible frame durations. | 12-22-2011 |
20120069764 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DOWNLINK RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN AN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication is provided that schedules both Distributed Virtual Resource Blocks (DVRB) and Localized Virtual Resource Blocks (LVRB) in a same frequency channel, thereby obtaining the benefits of frequency selective scheduling while minimizing the uplink feedback overhead. In one embodiment of the invention, the communication system assigns one or more downlink Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs) of multiple downlink Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs) to each user equipment (UE) given an LVRB to produce at least one reserved PRB and multiple non-reserved PRBs and assigns a part of each PRB of the multiple non-reserved PRBs to a UE given a DVRB. In another embodiment of the invention, the communication system assigns PRBs pre-reserved for localized transmission to UEs scheduled for LVRBs and assigns parts of multiple PRBs pre-reserved for distributed transmission to each UE given a DVRB. | 03-22-2012 |
20120087396 | METHOD AND APPARATUS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - An apparatus and a method therein include selecting a size of a soft buffer memory partition per component carrier in a Carrier Aggregation scenario. The method supports multiple carriers to select a size of a soft buffer memory partition, the partition associated with receiving data on at least one component carrier, the multi-carrier system comprising at least two component carriers, each component carrier is associated with a configured bandwidth, the apparatus comprising the processor configured to select a size of a soft buffer memory partition for the first component carrier based at least in part on a first total number of soft channel bits, a first number associated with hybrid automatic retransmit request processes, and the configured bandwidth of the first component carrier. | 04-12-2012 |
20120113927 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERLEAVING SEQUENCE ELEMENTS OF AN OFDMA SYNCHRONIZATION CHANNEL - A method and apparatus is provided for transmitting an orthogonal frequency domain multiple access (OFDMA) signal including a synchronization channel signal transmitted including a plurality of sequence elements interleaved in time and frequency. The synchronization channel signal sequence elements enable an initial acquisition and cell search method with low computational load by providing predetermined time domain symmetry for common sequence elements in OFDMA symbol periods for OFDMA symbol timing detection and frequency error detection in an OFDMA system supporting multiple system bandwidths, both synchronized and un-synchronized systems, a large cell index and an OFDMA symbol structure with both short and long cyclic prefix length. | 05-10-2012 |
20120163305 | ENERGY-SAVING BASE STATION AND METHOD - A wireless communication user terminal obtains uplink access configuration information on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) addressed to a plurality of user terminals by processing the PDCCH based on a first system information received from a base station on a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) and based on synchronization information. The terminal sends a signature waveform based on the uplink access configuration information, prior to receiving system information in addition to the first system information, whereby the signature waveform enables the base station to transition from a relatively low power operating mode to a relatively high power operating mode. | 06-28-2012 |
20120164948 | INTERFERENCE MITIGATION IN A DEVICE HAVING MULTIPLE RADIOS - A wireless terminal that supports operation on a first wireless technology and operation on a second wireless technology performs a first set of measurements on a received signal on first operating frequency of the first wireless technology, wherein the first set of measurements are performed during time periods that overlap time periods during which the wireless terminal transmits signals of the second wireless technology. The terminal also performs interference avoidance to avoid interference from transmissions of signals of the second wireless technology to reception of signals of the first wireless technology if the first set of measurements indicates interference due to transmission of signals of the second wireless technology by the wireless terminal. | 06-28-2012 |
20120170541 | SCHEDULING GRANT INFORMATION SIGNALING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless user terminal includes a controller communicably coupled to a transceiver. The controller is configured to determine scheduling grant information and additional scheduling grant information from a channel encoded scheduling grant received at the transceiver, wherein the channel encoded scheduling grant includes encoded parity bits combined with the scheduling grant information and the encoded parity bits include the additional scheduling grant information exclusive OR-ed with parity bits obtained from the scheduling grant information. | 07-05-2012 |
20120172080 | POWER CONTROL IN SCHEDULABLE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A wireless communication entity schedulable in a wireless communication network include a radio receiver that receives radio resource assignment information including a bandwidth allocation, a controller communicably coupled to the power amplifier, wherein the controller varies an operational maximum power level of the schedulable wireless communication entity based on whether the schedulable wireless communication entity is communicating time-critical traffic or non-time-critical traffic, and wherein the operational maximum power level limits an instantaneous power at which the schedulable wireless communication entity may transmit on the radio resource assigned. | 07-05-2012 |
20120172081 | POWER CONTROL IN SCHEDULABLE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A wireless communication entity schedulable in a wireless communication network includes a radio receiver that receives radio resource assignment information including a bandwidth allocation, and a controller communicably coupled to the power amplifier, wherein the controller varies an operational maximum power level of the schedulable wireless communication entity in accordance with a protocol state governing the schedulable wireless communication entity, wherein the operational maximum power level limits an instantaneous power at which the schedulable wireless communication entity may transmit on the radio resource assigned. | 07-05-2012 |
20120327866 | Multi-Cluster Uplink Transmission in Wireless Communication Network - A method in a wireless communication device comprises determining transmission powers for at least two clusters, wherein each cluster includes at least one physical resource block (RB), determining a difference in a characteristic of the transmission powers determined for the at least two clusters, and varying a transmit power allocated to at least one cluster if the difference in the characteristic exceeds a power spread threshold, wherein the power allocated to each cluster is a function of pathloss between the wireless communication device and a serving base station. | 12-27-2012 |
20130016694 | Method and Apparatus for Transport Block Signaling in a Wireless Communication System - A method and apparatus for generating a single statically defined downlink reference MCS table consisting of transport block sizes (TBSs) computed for 29 MCSs for each of j PRBs where j=1, . . . , N | 01-17-2013 |
20130028200 | INTERFERENCE MITIGATION IN AN ACCESSORY FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method in a wireless communication terminal includes receiving configuration signaling for transmitting on a first set of radio resources wherein transmitting only on the first set of radio resources leads to a time-domain periodic repetitive pattern of transmissions from the terminal in a transmission interval that causes interference to a companion device communicably coupled to the wireless communication terminal. The terminals selects a second set of radio resources for transmitting on in the transmission interval such that transmissions on a combination of the second set of radio resources and the first set of radio resources does not lead to a periodic repetitive pattern of transmissions from the terminal in the transmission interval. | 01-31-2013 |
20130044621 | SELF-INTERFERENCE HANDLING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL SUPPORTING CARRIER AGGREGATION - A wireless communication terminal that has the self-interference due to the support of carrier aggregation, aggregating and jointly using two or more component carriers for transmission and reception, performs a first set of measurements on a received signal on a first operating frequency, wherein the first set of measurements are performed during which the wireless terminal transmits or receives signals on a second operating frequency. In an alternative embodiment, the wireless communication terminal changes the maximum transmit power limit on a first operating frequency on a per-slot basis to reduce the impact of harmonic or intermodulation distortion on a received signal at a second operating frequency. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044664 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROL CHANNEL TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION - A communication system is provided wherein a user equipment (UE) receives control information from a wireless network. The UE monitors control channel candidates using common reference signals (CRS) and monitors enhanced control channel candidates using demodulation reference signals (DMRS) when the UE is configured in a first transmission mode, such as transmission mode 9, for receiving a downlink shared traffic channel based on DMRS. The UE monitors control channel candidates only using CRS when the UE is configured in a second transmission mode, such as any of transmission modes 1-6, for receiving a downlink shared traffic channel based on CRS. The UE then receives downlink control information (DCI) in a subframe in one of the monitored control channel candidates or enhanced control channel candidates in the subframe. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044692 | REFERENCE SIGNAL FOR A CONTROL CHANNEL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A wireless communication terminal receives a first set of pilot signal resource elements and control information in one or more spatial layers in a first resource block in a subframe and a second set of pilot signal resource elements and data in one or more spatial layers in a second resource block in the subframe, wherein the first and second resource blocks span a set of time symbols in a sub-frame, the first resource blocks span a first set of frequency carriers in the sub-frame, and the second resource blocks span a second set of frequency carriers in the sub-frame. The terminal decodes the one or more spatial layers in which the control information is received using the first set of pilot signal resource elements, wherein the first set of pilot signal resource elements comprises a first number of pilot signal resource elements per layer. The terminal also decodes the one or more spatial layers in which the data is received in the second resource block using the second set of pilot signal resource elements, wherein the second set of pilot signal resource elements comprises a second number of pilot signal resource elements, per layer, present in the second resource block, wherein the first number is greater than the second number. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044727 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROL CHANNEL TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION - A user equipment (UE) receives a signal comprising multiple resource blocks and configured for receiving a subframe comprising multiple time-frequency resources, the time-frequency resources comprising at least two control channel candidates. The UE determines a first control channel candidate of the at least two control channel candidates in the subframe, determines a first antenna port (AP) associated with the first control channel candidate, decodes the first control channel candidate based on the first AP, determines a second control channel candidate of the at least two control channel candidates in the subframe, determines a second AP associated with the second control channel candidate, and decodes the second control channel candidate based on the second AP, wherein the AP used for decoding the first control channel candidate is distinct from the AP used for decoding the second control channel candidate. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044831 | POWER ALLOCATION FOR OVERLAPPING TRANSMISSION WHEN MULTIPLE TIMING ADVANCES ARE USED - A method and apparatus for power allocation for overlapping transmissions is provided herein. During operation, user equipment will determine if transmissions to a single base station, on various frequencies, will be overlapping. If so, a determination is made to back off the power for at least one transmission on one frequency. | 02-21-2013 |
20130114425 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RANK ADAPTATION IN AN ORTHOGONAL FEQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system provides for adaptive rank determination, for example, a rank 2 transmission in instances where a rank 1 transmission may be indicated under supported feedback modes in current standards where no explicit power adaptation can be assumed, for example, where a user equipment (UE) is limited to reporting a rank 1 channel due to a large dynamic range of a signal or due to a signal received by the UE from one base station (BS) antenna port drowning out a signal received by the UE from another BS antenna port. The communication system provides for the UE to implement rank 2 transmission in such instances by using per-antenna port power control at a BS serving the UE. In one embodiment, the BS controls the rank determination at the UE by signaling transmit power or power offset related parameters to use for rank and transmission parameters determination and feedback. | 05-09-2013 |
20130121304 | ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SIGNALING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A wireless communication device is disclosed. The device includes a transceiver coupled to a processor configured to determine an antenna port associated with a received control message scheduling a transport block, to determine an acknowledgement resource based on the antenna port, and to cause the transceiver to transmit an acknowledgement on the acknowledgement resource, wherein the acknowledgement indicates receipt or non-receipt of the transport block. | 05-16-2013 |
20130163486 | PHICH RESOURCE SIGNALING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless communication terminal and method for determining a number of Physical Hybrid ARQ Indicator Channel (PHICH) groups (N) in the downlink subframe based on a first parameter, a second parameter and a determined cyclic prefix (CP) duration, wherein the first parameter indicates a downlink system bandwidth in terms of a number of resource blocks and the second parameter indicates a scaling factor. The terminal receives downlink control signaling in a set of resource elements in the subframe, wherein the set of resource elements is determined based partly on the number of PHICH groups (N). | 06-27-2013 |
20130178221 | Method and Apparatus for Managing Transmit Power for Device-To-Device Communication - A method and apparatus for managing transmit power for device-to-device communication is provided. According to an embodiment of the invention, a UE uses a component carrier of one cell to engage in D2D communication. In parallel with its D2D communication, the UE uses one or more other component carriers of one or more other cells to engage in cellular communication. The UE configures its D2D transmit power as well as its cellular transmit power so that its total transmit power does not exceed the UEs maximum power limit, and so that the transmit power on a component carrier of a cell does not exceed the maximum power limit for the cell that provides the component carrier. | 07-11-2013 |
20130196606 | UPLINK POWER CONTROL IN COORDINATED MULTI-POINT WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless communication device includes a transceiver and a processor configured to determine a path loss between each of a plurality of communication nodes and the wireless communication device, determine an effective path loss based on the path loss determined for the each of the plurality of communication nodes and based on a corresponding weight for each of the plurality of communication nodes, and configured to determine a transmit power of the wireless communication device based on the effective path loss. | 08-01-2013 |
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20130287150 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEMODULATING A SIGNAL IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A joint soft output ML receiver that is able to reduce interference based on partial transmission information (i.e., without knowing the existence of other layers or other users and their modulation schemes) is described. In one implementation, the partial information based joint ML receiver can achieve performance that is similar to full information based joint ML receivers even when full information regarding the interfering UE is not available at the desired UE due to transparent Multi-user Multiple Input and Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) transmission (such as with TM 8 and TM 9 transmissions in EUTRA LTE). | 10-31-2013 |
20130294343 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INITIAL ACQUISITION AND CELL SEARCH FOR AN OFDMA SYSTEM - A method and apparatus is provided for transmitting an orthogonal frequency domain multiple access (OFDMA) signal including a synchronization channel signal transmitted within a localized portion of a bandwidth of the OFDMA signal, the synchronization channel signal having predetermined time domain symmetry within the localized portion of the bandwidth and including information for providing at least partial cell identification information. The synchronization channel signal enables an initial acquisition and cell search method with low computational load which provides OFDMA symbol timing detection and frequency error detection and frame boundary detection and cell specific information detection in an OFDMA system supporting multiple system bandwidths, both synchronized and un-synchronized systems, a large cell index and an OFDMA symbol structure with both short and long cyclic prefix length. | 11-07-2013 |
20130301434 | RADIO LINK MONTORING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Methods and apparatus' of determining radio link quality are disclosed. According to various implementations, information indicating the time-frequency blocks to be monitored by a UE to enable the UE to locate a control channel is determined. The UE receives configuration information regarding resources used by a channel state information reference signal. It also receives configuration information regarding an interference measurement resource, as well as a channel state information reference signal. The channel state information reference signal uses the channel state information reference signal resources. A synchronization condition is determined based on the time frequency blocks to be monitored by the UE, the received channel state information reference signal and the interference measurement resource. The determined synchronization condition is sent to a higher layer. | 11-14-2013 |
20130301542 | RADIO LINK MONTORING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Methods and apparatus' of determining radio link quality are disclosed. According to various implementations, a user equipment detects an out-of-synchronization condition corresponding to a first control channel, and monitors a second control channel in response to the detecting the out-of synchronization condition. | 11-14-2013 |
20140036747 | Method and Apparatus For Receiving A Control Channel - Various methods and apparatuses for receiving a control channel involve a communication device monitoring a first control and receiving information from a network regarding the configuration of a second control channel. The communication device receives an uplink grant from the network; transmits a message to the network, in which the message indicates to the network that the communication device is capable of monitoring the second control channel. The communication device monitors the second control channel based on the configuration information receiving via the first control channel. | 02-06-2014 |
20140044064 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION INCLUDING A DC SUB-CARRIER IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method in a wireless communication terminal ( | 02-13-2014 |
20140056228 | MULTI-CLUSTER UPLINK TRANSMISSION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method in a wireless communication device comprises determining transmission powers for at least two clusters, wherein each cluster includes at least one physical resource block (RB), determining a difference in a characteristic of the transmission powers determined for the at least two clusters, and varying a transmit power allocated to at least one cluster if the difference in the characteristic exceeds a power spread threshold, wherein the power allocated to each cluster is a function of pathloss between the wireless communication device and a serving base station. | 02-27-2014 |
20140177683 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANTENNA ARRAY CHANNEL FEEDBACK - A method and apparatus provide antenna array channel feedback. The method can include receiving, at a wireless terminal, a set of channel state information reference signals. The method can include determining, by the wireless terminal, based on the received set of channel state information reference signals, a precoding matrix that is a product of a first precoding matrix and a second precoding matrix. The first precoding matrix can have at least a representation in terms of a representation matrix. The representation matrix can be based on a matrix selected from a first codebook. The second precoding matrix can be based on a second codebook. The method can include transmitting, by the wireless terminal, a representation of at least one of the first precoding matrix and the second precoding matrix. | 06-26-2014 |
20140177744 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANTENNA ARRAY CHANNEL FEEDBACK - A method and apparatus provide antenna array channel feedback. The method can include receiving, at a wireless terminal, a set of channel state information reference signals. The method can include determining a precoding matrix based on the received set of channel state information reference signals. The precoding matrix can have a representation in terms of three components. The first component of the three components can be determined from a first set of vectors. The second component of the three components can be determined from a first set of parameters. The third component of the three components can be determined from a second set of parameters. The second set of parameters can be a set of unit-magnitude scalars. The method can include transmitting, by the wireless terminal, a representation of at least one of the first component, the second component, and the third component. | 06-26-2014 |
20140177745 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANTENNA ARRAY CHANNEL FEEDBACK - A method and apparatus provide antenna array channel feedback. The method can include receiving a first set of channel state information reference signals on resource elements, and a second set of channel state information reference signals on resource elements. The method can include determining a first precoding matrix based on the received first set of channel state information reference signals. The first precoding matrix can be chosen from a first codebook. The method can include determining a second precoding matrix based on the second set of channel state information reference signals. The second precoding matrix can be chosen from a second codebook that is different than the first codebook. The method can include transmitting a representation of at least one of the first precoding matrix and the second precoding matrix. | 06-26-2014 |
20140187283 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION - A first user equipment (UE) wirelessly communicates with a network element (e.g., an eNB) on a carrier (e.g., a cellular uplink or downlink carrier) in accordance with its first capability partitioning configuration. The first UE engages in direct wireless communication on the carrier with a second UE in accordance its second capability partitioning configuration. | 07-03-2014 |
20140198758 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SOFT BUFFER MANAGEMENT FOR CARRIER AGGREGATION - An apparatus and a method therein include selecting a size of a soft buffer memory partition per component carrier in a Carrier Aggregation scenario. The method supports multiple carriers to select a size of a soft buffer memory partition, the partition associated with receiving data on at least one component carrier, the multi-carrier system comprising at least two component carriers, each component carrier is associated with a configured bandwidth, the apparatus comprising the processor configured to select a size of a soft buffer memory partition for the first component carrier based at least in part on a first total number of soft channel bits, a first number associated with hybrid automatic retransmit request processes, and the configured bandwidth of the first component carrier. | 07-17-2014 |
20140254508 | METHOD FOR CODEBOOK ENHANCEMENT FOR MULTI-USER MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT SYSTEMS - A wireless terminal is capable of receiving a pilot signal from a base station; and determining a precoding matrix as a linear combination of two matrices V | 09-11-2014 |
20140269338 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION - A first UE receives a first uplink-downlink configuration from a network entity via broadcast signalling. The first uplink configuration designates a first set of subframes of a series of subframes as uplink subframes. The first UE also receives a second uplink-downlink configuration via dedicated signaling. The second uplink-downlink configuration designates a second set of subframes of the series of subframes as uplink subframes. The first set of uplink subframes and the second set of uplink subframes differ from one another by at least one uplink subframe. | 09-18-2014 |
20140293939 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING A CONTROL CHANNEL - Various methods and apparatuses for receiving a control channel involve a communication device monitoring a first control and receiving information from a network regarding the configuration of a second control channel. The communication device receives an uplink grant from the network; transmits a message to the network, in which the message indicates to the network that the communication device is capable of monitoring the second control channel. The communication device monitors the second control channel based on the configuration information receiving via the first control channel. | 10-02-2014 |
20140302855 | Methods and Devices for Cell Discovery - This disclosure sets forth methods and devices for communication between mobile devices and base stations with active and dormant states. In an embodiment, a base station transmits system information during an active state of the base station with at least one system-information message. The at least one system-information message includes a SystemInformationBlockType1 (“SIB1”) message with a first update-indicator field. The base station selects an update value that indicates whether the system information has changed since a previous transmission of a previous SIB1 message. The base station transmits at least one dormant-state message during a dormant state of the base station with the selected update value in a second update-indicator field of the at least one dormant-state message. | 10-09-2014 |
20140302856 | Methods and Devices for Cell Discovery - This disclosure sets forth methods and devices for communication between mobile devices and base stations with active and dormant states. In an embodiment, a base station transmits system information during an active state of the base station with at least one system-information message. The at least one system-information message includes a SystemInformationBlockType1 (“SIB1”) message with a first update-indicator field. The base station selects an update value that indicates whether the system information has changed since a previous transmission of a previous SIB1 message. The base station transmits at least one dormant-state message during a dormant state of the base station with the selected update value in a second update-indicator field of the at least one dormant-state message. | 10-09-2014 |
20140362938 | METHODS FOR CODEBOOK SUB-SAMPLING - Disclosed are methods for codebook sub-sampling. In various implementations, a wireless terminal receives a reference signal, determines, based on the reference signal, a first precoding index i | 12-11-2014 |
20150016428 | METHODS AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION - Disclosed are methods for carrying out device-to-device (“D2D”) communication. In one implementation, a user equipment (“UE”) communicates D2D with another UE using uplink radio resources. The first UE receives a downlink signal from a base station and determines the reception time. The first UE also receives a timing advance for uplink communication. Based on the reception time and the timing advance, the first UE determines an uplink transmission time. When transmitting to the second UE, however, the first UE does not transmit at the determined UL transmission time. Rather, the first UE delays its D2D transmission for a period of time that is based on the second UE's uplink timing advance. | 01-15-2015 |