Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for interrupting a transmission of a multicast signal includes a common channel selector (106) coupled to a receiver (102) to receive common channel information (116) therefrom. A repetition value calculator (108) receives measurement occasion information (118) from the common channel selector (106) to calculate a repetition factor (120). A system frame number comparator (110) determines if a channel measurement occasion (128) should be performed based on the repetition factor (120), a common identifier (124) and a largest common channel transmission time interval (122). The method and apparatus further includes a measurement occasion generator (112) coupled to the system frame number comparator (110), wherein if a measurement occasion is to be performed, a measurement occasion command signal (126) is provided to the measurement occasion generator (112) and the measurement occasion generator generates the channel measurement occasion (128).
Abstract:
A wireless communication system that communicates (500) frames having first and second sub-frames (510, 520) with time-frequency resource elements. The first sub-frame including first reference symbol information and the second sub-frame including second reference symbol information, and not more than one of the first and second sub-frames including user specific radio resource assignment information. Wireless communication entities receiving the frames process the time-frequency elements of the first sub-frame using the first reference symbol information and processing the time-frequency elements of the second sub-frame using the second reference symbol information.
Abstract:
A base station (103) assigns a set of mobile stations (101) to a group wherein the group will share a set of radio resources (770). A control field (1103) may be sent with a payload field (1105) wherein the control field (1103) and payload field (1105) are sent using a single Orthogonal Variable Spreading Factor or a single Walsh Code (1101) wherein various modulation and coding schemes may be applied to the control field (1103) and payload field (1105) such that different modulation and coding schemes may be used within the single channel. HARQ is handled by sending a single retransmission if a NACK message is received or no ACK/NACK message is received at all.
Abstract:
Disclose is a synchronized wireless communication network (100) operating in single frequency network mode comprising a first base station (502) broadcasting, on a first channel, broadcast data and a common sequence (508) that is generated from a first channel identifier, and wherein the first base station transmits data on a common control channel. A second base station (510), adjacent to the first base station and synchronized with the first base station, the second base station simultaneously broadcasting on the first channel the broadcast data and the common sequence, and wherein the second base station transmits data on a common control channel.
Abstract:
A method for scheduling a wireless communication entity (103) based on channel quality information provided by the wireless entity, wherein scheduling is discontinued if channel quality information is not received from the wireless communication entity over a specified number of frames or if the channel quality information provided is insufficient to support a control channel. The wireless entity may discontinue reporting channel quality information if the channel quality measured over a specified number of frames is below a threshold. Scheduling may be discontinued by blocking, or removing or preempting the scheduling of the wireless entity.
Abstract:
Embodiments include methods and apparatus associated with wireless multicast and/or broadcast services. A base station (102) transmits data codes (504, 604, 702) within a radio frame (300). The data codes are Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) data codes, in an embodiment. The base station also transmits a Time Division Multiplexed (TDM) synchronization code (502, 608, 706), in an embodiment. The base station discontinuously transmits (1004) a portion of a radio frame slot that is coincident in time with a duration of the TDM synchronization code, in various embodiments. The discontinuously transmitted portion of the radio frame slot may include Transport Format Combination Indicator (TFCI) bits (510), pilot bits (710), or data bits (612), in various embodiments. A base station's transmissions may be synchronous in time and frequency with the transmissions of other base stations.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for handling a difference between a first and second message prior to decoding is disclosed The signaling scenapo illustrated by FIG 1 and using the codeword properties defined herein, the vanous embodiments may combine multiple messages under the hypothesis that the value of a message portion corresponding to any subsequent observed transmission is different Accordingly, a first set of observations (LLR's) (601 ) may be compared with a second or subsequent set of observations (603), and if the observations are found sufficiently similar, may be further compared in the context of a hypothesized difference (607) in constituent message information words Once any difference in information words is identified, the second or subsequent set of observations may be combined (611) with the first set of observations after suitable arithmetic processing, and prior to further decoding.
Abstract:
A wireless communication network entity (400) and a method therein wherein data is encoded using an error correcting code to form a first codeword, for example, a cyclic redundancy code, including redundancy. A second codeword is generated by encoding additional data on a portion of the first codeword, wherein the portion of the first codeword on which the additional data is encoded being within an error correction capability of the first codeword.
Abstract:
A method in a wireless communication network (100) wherein information is communicated in a frame structure wherein each frame includes multiple sub-frames, including grouping at least two wireless communication terminals in a group, assigning the group to less than all sub-frames constituting a communication frame, and assigning a radio resource assignment control channel of one or more assigned sub-frames to the group. The control channel is used to assign radio resources to one or more terminals of the group.