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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide beamforming techniques used to decrease the average interference caused by transmissions of a base station to subscriber stations in neighboring cells, in a CDMA data communication system capable of variable rate transmission.SOLUTION: Base stations 102, 104 utilize various transmit antennas 106, 108 each transmitting signals with controlled phases in order to form transmit signal beams 110, 118, 122 corresponding to individual subscriber stations 112, 116. Data and reference signals are transmitted along beams 110, 118, 122 that change according to fixed time slots and sub-slots in order to minimize carrier-to-interference ratios (C/I) measured at subscriber stations 112, 116.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for measuring and reporting channel state information in a high efficiency, high performance communications system.SOLUTION: Channel state information (CSI) can be used by a communications system 100 for precondition transmissions between transmitter units and receiver units. Disjoint sub-channel sets are assigned to transmit antennas located at a transmitter unit. Pilot symbols are generated and transmitted on a subset of the disjoint sub-channels. Upon receipt of the transmitted pilot symbols, the receiver units determine the CSI for the disjoint sub-channels that carried pilot symbols. The amount of information necessary to report CSI on the reverse link can be further minimized through compression techniques and resource allocation techniques.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques to process data for transmission in a time division duplexed (TDD) communication system.SOLUTION: The frequency response of a forward link is estimated at a base station based on reverse link transmissions (e.g., pilots) from a terminal. Prior to a data transmission onto the forward link, a reverse transfer function is determined based on the pilots transmitted by the terminal, the reverse transfer function is "calibrated" with a calibration function to derive an estimate of a forward transfer function, and modulation symbols are preconditioned based on weights derived from the forward transfer function. The terminal estimates the "quality" of the forward link and provides this information to the base station. The base station then uses the information to properly code and modulate data prior to transmission such that the transmitted data can be received by the terminal at a desired level of performance.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for quick retransmission of signals in a communication system.SOLUTION: A transmitting terminal transmits signals in a form of packets to a receiving terminal, if the packet is intended for the receiving terminal, if so, the receiving terminal demodulates the packet. The receiving terminal then computes a quality metric of the packet, and compares the computed quality metric with a quality metric contained in the packet. If the quality metrics match, the packet is forwarded for further processing. If the quality metrics fail to match, the receiving terminal sends a request for retransmission of the packet. The transmitting terminal determines which packet needs to be retransmitted based on the request for retransmission. If delivery of the packet in accordance with the description fails, retransmission in accordance with a conventional sequence-number-based scheme, e.g., radio link protocol, is attempted.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an OFDM system where code spreading of signaling data is provided.SOLUTION: Instead of specifically allocating subbands to individual signaling channels, signaling data for a signaling channel on a given link is sent as "under-lay" to other transmissions that may be transmitted on the same link. Each wireless terminal is assigned to different PN codes. The signaling data for each terminal is spectrally spread over all or a portion of the system bandwidth using the assigned PN codes. For a reverse link, a wireless terminal may transmit signaling on all N usable subbands and may transmit traffic data on L subbands assigned for data transmission, which may be a subset of the N usable subbands. For a forward link, a base station may transmit signaling and traffic data for all terminals on the N usable subbands.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for reducing mutual interference between elements in a system without requiring a large number of minute cells in the data communication system. SOLUTION: In a CDMA data communication system capable of variable rate transmission, the usage of a beam formation method reduces average interference caused by the transmission of a base station 104 to a subscriber station 112 in an adjoining cell 124. Base stations 102 and 104 utilize many kinds and a variety of transmission antennas 106 and 108 and transmit signals with controlled phases for forming transmission signal beams 110, 118, and 122 corresponding to subscriber stations 112, 116, and 120, respectively. Data and reference signals are transmitted along the beams 110, 118, and 122 that are changed according to a certain time slot and a sub-slot in order to minimize carrier waves to interference ratios (C/I) measured in the subscriber stations 112, 116, and 120. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques to process data for transmission in a time division duplexed (TDD) communication system. SOLUTION: A frequency response of a forward link is estimated in a base station on the basis of reverse link transmissions (e.g., pilots) from a terminal. Prior to a data transmission on the forward link, the base station determines a reverse transfer function on the basis of the pilots transmitted by the terminal, "calibrates" the reverse transfer function with a calibration function to derive an estimate of a forward transfer function, and preconditions modulation symbols on the basis of weights derived from the forward transfer function. In another aspect, the terminal estimates the "quality" of the forward link and provides this information to the base station. The base station then uses the information to properly code and modulate data prior to transmission such that the transmitted data is received by the terminal at the desired level of performance. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide various schemes of managing communications traffic among the channels in a code division multiple access (CDMA) communications system including one or more terminals (such as customer premise equipments, CPEs) that communicate with a node (such as an Internet gateway) via at least a random access channel and a reservation-oriented channel. SOLUTION: The method involves examining a degree of loading of an output buffer of a given terminal to arrive at a Q-state (302). If the Q-state is greater than the threshold (310), then the method involves assigning to the given terminal, a code designating a reservation-oriented sub-channel; and causing the given terminal to transmit data on the reservation-oriented sub-channel based on orthogonal code division multiple access (OCDMA) (326). If the Q-state is less than the threshold (310), then the method involves causing the given terminal to transmit data on the random access channel based on asynchronous code division multiple access (ACDMA) (330). COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To determine a rate for a data transmission in OFDM transmission. SOLUTION: The maximum data rate that may be reliably transmitted over a given multipath channel by OFDM transmission is determined based on a metric for an equivalent channel. As for the given multipath channel and a particular rate, the metric is derived from an equivalent data rate and the particular modulation scheme. A threshold SNR needed reliably to transmit the particular data rate using the particular modulation scheme and coding rate is then determined. The particular rate is deemed as being supported by the multipath channel if the metric is greater than or equal to the threshold SNR. Incremental transmission is used to account for errors in the determined data rate. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques for processing data for transmission in a time division duplexed (TDD) communication system.SOLUTION: The frequency response of a forward link is estimated at a base station on the basis of reverse link transmissions (e.g., pilots) from a terminal. Prior to a data transmission on the forward link, it determines a reverse transfer function on the basis of the pilots transmitted by the terminal, "calibrates" the reverse transfer function with a calibration function to derive an estimate of a forward transfer function, and preconditions modulation symbols on the basis of weights derived from the forward transfer function. In another aspect, the terminal estimates the "quality" of the forward link and provides this information to the base station. The base station then uses the information to properly code and modulate data prior to transmission such that the transmitted data can be received by the terminal at the desired level of performance.