Abstract:
Techniques are provided to support soft handoff in a frequency hopping OFDMA system. Each sector concurrently supports "non-handoff" users and "soft-handoff" users. A non-handoff user communicates with only one sector, and a soft-handoff user communicates with multiple sectors simultaneously. Non-handoff users are assigned traffic channels by their sole sectors, and soft-handoff users are assigned traffic channels by their "serving" sectors. For each sector, the traffic channels assigned to the non-handoff users are orthogonal to one another and may or may not be orthogonal to the traffic channels assigned to the soft-handoff users. Each sector processes its received signal and recovers the data transmissions from the non-handoff users of that sector. Each sector then estimates the interference due to the non-handoff users and cancels the interference from the received signal. Each sector further processes its interference-canceled signal to recover the data transmissions from the soft-handoff users.
Abstract:
A system and method for power control and scheduling of sub-carriers in an OFDM communication system. The receiver dynamic range can be minimized by a power control loop that attempts to maintain received power over a noise floor in a predetermined range. If the received power relative to a noise floor in allocated sub-carriers exceeds the predetermined range and the total received power is at the minimum, the scheduling system allocates an additional sub-carrier to the communication link. Additionally, if the received power relative to the noise floor is less than the predetermined range minimum, and the total received power is at a maximum, the scheduling system de-allocates a sub-carrier from the communication link. The scheduling system may also adjust an encoding rate to maintain a relatively constant symbol rate in each sub-carrier.
Abstract:
A 'power adaptive circular' (PAC) transmission scheme that can support both spatial multiplexing and transmit diversity for multi-carrier MIMO systems and has a number of desirable characteristics, including the ability to: transmit a variable number of symbol streams, provide transmit diversity for each transmitted symbol stream, support coded interference estimation technique at a receiver, and use power efficiently. In one method, at least one stream of symbols is received for transmission on a plurality of subbands and from a plurality of antennas. The at least one stream of symbols is multiplexed such that (1) the symbols in each stream are transmitted from the plurality of antennas (e.g., diagonally across the subbands and antennas) and (2) the at least one stream starts in the same subband. A stream of multiplexed symbols is formed for each antenna and further processed, and may be transmitted at full power available for the antenna.
Abstract:
Techniques for managing peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) for multi-carrier modulation in wireless communication systems. Different terminals in a multiple-access system may have different required transmit powers. The number of carriers to allocate to each terminal is made dependent on its required transmit power. Terminals with higher required transmit powers may be allocated fewer carriers (associated with smaller PAPR) to allow the power amplifier to operate at higher power levels. Terminals with lower required transmit powers may be allocated more carriers (associated with higher PAPR) since the power amplifier is operated at lower power levels. The specific carriers to assign to the terminals may also be determined by their transmit power levels to reduce out-of-band emissions. Terminals with higher required transmit powers may be assigned with carriers near the middle of the operating band, and terminals with lower required transmit powers may be assigned with carriers near the band edges.
Abstract:
Techniques to perform channel estimation with pilot weighting are described. A receiver receives at least one transmission symbol for a pilot transmitted by a transmitter. Each transmission symbol may be generated with a single-carrier multiplexing scheme (e.g., IFDMA or LFDMA) or a multi-carrier multiplexing scheme (e.g., OFDMA). The receiver processes each received transmission symbol and obtains received pilot values. The receiver may derive an interference estimate based on the received pilot values and may estimate the reliability of the received pilot values based on the interference estimate. The receiver determines weights for the received pilot values based on the transmitted pilot values, the estimated reliability of the received pilot values, and/or other information. The receiver derives a channel estimate based on the received pilot values and the weights. The receiver then performs data detection (e.g., equalization) on received data values with the channel estimate.
Abstract:
Techniques are provided to manage interference for soft handoff and broadcast services in a wireless frequency hopping communication system (e.g., an OFDMA system). These techniques may be used for the forward and reverse links. In a first scheme, an FH function f sho (r,T) is used for soft-handoff users, an FH function f s i (k,T) is used for users not in soft handoff in each sector s i , and the FH function f s i (k,T) is modified to be orthogonal to the FH function f sho (r,T) if and when necessary. In a second scheme, the FH function f sho (r,T) used for soft-handoff users is defined to be orthogonal to or have low correlation with the FH function f s i (k,T) used for users not in soft handoff in each sector s i , so that modification of the FH function f s i (k,T) is not needed. The FH function f s i (k,T) for each sector may be defined to be pseudo-random with respect to the FH functions f s i (k,T) for other sectors.
Abstract:
Techniques are provided to support fast frequency hopping with a code division multiplexed (CDM) pilot in a multi-carrier communication system (e.g., an OFDMA system) [520]. Each transmitter (e.g., each terminal [420x]) in the system transmits a wideband pilot on all subbands to allow a receiver (e.g., a base station) to estimate the entire channel response at the same time. The wideband pilot for each transmitter [420x] may be generated using direct sequence spread spectrum processing and based on a pseudo-random number (PN) code assigned to that transmitter [420x]. This allows the receiver to individually identify and recover multiple wideband pilots transmitted concurrently by multiple transmitters. For a time division multiplexed (TDM)/CDM pilot transmission scheme, each transmitter transmits the wideband pilot in bursts. For a continuous CDM pilot transmission scheme, each transmitter [420x] continuously transmits the wideband pilot, albeit at a low transmit power level. Any frequency hopping rate may be supported without impacting pilot overhead.
Abstract:
A rate adaptive transmission scheme for MIMO systems, which can transmit a variable number of data symbol streams, provide transmit diversity for each data symbol stream, and fully utilize the total transmit power of the system and the full power of each antenna. In one method, at least one data symbol stream is received for transmission from a plurality of antennas. Each data symbol stream is scaled with a respective weight corresponding to the amount of transmit power allocated to that stream. The scaled data symbol stream(s) are multiplied with a transmit basis matrix to provide a plurality of transmit symbol streams for the plurality of antennas.; The transmit basis matrix (e.g., a Walsh-Hadamard matrix or a DFT matrix) is defined such that each data symbol stream is transmitted from all antennas and each transmit symbol stream is transmitted at (or near) the full power for the associated antenna.
Abstract:
Un procedimiento de uso de una red de comunicación inalámbrica que funciona de acuerdo con una tecnología de comunicación de red, incluyendo la red de comunicación inalámbrica un punto de acceso (102), estando el procedimiento caracterizado por un dispositivo móvil (104): que recibe señales desde un transmisor de una tecnología de comunicación dispar potencialmente interferida por comunicaciones sobre adjudicaciones de recursos desde el punto de acceso; que determina si un producto de orden armónico de enésima potencia de una adjudicación de recursos desde el punto de acceso está en la banda de frecuencia del transmisor, donde n es 2, 3, ⋯; que determina (504) uno o más períodos de tiempo durante los que se comunican los dispositivos de la tecnología de comunicación dispar; y si el producto de orden armónico de enésima potencia de una adjudicación de recursos desde el punto de acceso está en la banda de frecuencia, que determina la interferencia potencial al transmisor de la tecnología de comunicación dispar durante los uno o más períodos de tiempo, y que transmite uno o más parámetros relacionados con la interferencia al punto de acceso.