Abstract:
A wireless communication method and system for controlling the current data bit rate of a radio link (RL) to maintain the quality of the RL. The system includes a core network (CN), a radio network controller (RNC) and at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The RL is established between the RNC and the WTRU. The RNC establishes a guaranteed data bit rate, a maximum data bit rate and a current data bit rate associated with the RL. When the RNC senses an event which indicates that the quality of the RL has substantially deteriorated, the RNC reduces the value of the current data bit rate. Then, in a recovery process, if a similar event does not occur during an established waiting period, the RNC restores the current data bit rate back to the maximum data bit rate.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus is used for generating a perfectly random secret key between two or more transceivers in a wireless communication network. In a point- to-point system, both transceivers produce an estimate of the channel impulse response (CIR) based on the received radio signal. The CIR estimation is synchronized and may include error correction and detection. A long secret key of bits is generated from a digitized version of the CIR estimate, from which a perfectly secret encryption key is derived by privacy amplification.
Abstract:
A wireless communication method and apparatus for selecting cells in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) measures a downlink path loss of a current serving cell and at least one other cell. The WTRU determines whether a path loss difference between the serving cell and the other cell is below a threshold. If the path loss difference is below the threshold, the WTRU measures a channel quality indicator (CQI) for each of the plurality of subcarrier blocks in the downlink of the current serving cell and the other cell, respectively. The WTRU reports the CQIs to a serving Node-B which selects a new cell based on the CQIs. Alternatively, a centralized access gateway (aGW) may select the new serving cell/Node-B, or the cell selection decision made by the serving Node-B may be forwarded to another Node-B via the centralized aGW.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for detecting an overlap of an E-DCH transmission or retransmission in TTIs that overlap with an assigned uplink compressed mode gap is disclosed. More specifically, detecting an overlap of an E-DCH transmission or retransmission in TTIs that overlap with an uplink compressed mode gap assigned by a Node B when a WTRU is configured with a 2 ms TTI is disclosed. After detecting the overlap of the E-DCH transmission or retransmission and the uplink compressed mode gap, the E-DCH transmission or retransmission is paused.
Abstract:
The present invention is related to a receiver having a plurality of antennas for receiving and performing hybrid timing and frequency offset on at least one signal that includes at least one synchronization channel (SCH) symbol having a plurality of time domain repetitive blocks. The receiver further includes an auto-correlation unit that outputs an auto-correlation result and the power of the received signal, a coarse timing detection unit that generates a coarse timing metric, a frequency offset estimation unit that generates a coarse frequency offset metric based on the coarse timing metric and the received signal, a frequency offset compensation unit that generates a compensated version of the received signal, and a fine tuning detection unit that generates a fine tuning detection metric based on a sample of the compensated version of the received signal that is cross-correlated with a primary synchronization channel (P-SCH) code sequence.
Abstract:
The present invention is related to a method and system for multi-cell coordination for multimedia broadcast multicast services (MBMS) in a wireless communication system. An MBMS multi-cell coordination unit is provided to coordinate a plurality of evolved Node-Bs (eNodeBs) for transmission of MBMS data synchronously in multiple cells of the same single frequency network (SFN). The MBMS multi-cell coordination unit may be located in an access gateway or in an eNodeB. An MBMS multi-cell scheduling scheme may be preconfigured for the eNodeBs for synchronization. Alternatively, the eNodeBs may be synchronized dynamically.
Abstract:
The present invention is related to a method and apparatus for enhancing security of communications. The apparatus comprises a security processing unit 310, a data processing unit 320, a cross-layer watermarking unit 330, and optionally a smart antenna processor 340. The security processing unit generates a token/key to be used in watermarking and sends a node security policy to other components. The data processing unit generates user data. The cross-layer watermarking unit includes at least one of Layer-2/3, Layer-1 and Layer-0. Each layer performs a different scheme or degree of watermarking. The cross-layer watermarking unit embeds the token]key into the user data transmission on at least one of the layers selectively in accordance with a security policy.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for processing enhanced uplink scheduling grants are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) detects an absolute grant (AG) and a relative grant (RG). Once the WTRU detects an AG or a RG, a new serving grant (SG) is generated and a hybrid automatic repeat request process may be activated or deactivated depending on whether the received AG is a primary AG or a secondary AG, whether a scheduling mode is a primary AG mode or a secondary AG mode, whether an AG value is set to "INACTIVE" and whether a transmission time interval is 2ms or 10ms. A Node-B may send a secondary AG to the WTRU before switching from a primary AG mode to a secondary AG mode and may send the secondary AG only if there is no out-of-date secondary AG exists, which may be detected by implementing a time threshold.
Abstract:
A hybrid orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system including a transmitter 100 and a receiver 200 IF disclosed. The transmitter 100 includes a first spread OFDMA subassembly 130, a first non-spread OFDMA subassembly 140 and a f irst common subassembly 150. The f irst spread OFDMA subassembly 130 spreads input data 101 and maps the spread data 103 to a first group of subcarriers 105. The first non-spread OFDMA subassembly 140 maps input data 111 to a second group of subcarriers 115. The first common subassembly 150 transmits the input data mapped to the first and second group of subcarriers using OFDMA. The receiver includes a second spread OFDMA subassembly 230, a second non-spread OFDMA subassembly 240 and a second common subassembly 250. The second common subassembly 250 processes received data to recover data mapped to the subcarriers using OFDMA. The second spread OFDMA subassembly 230 recovers the first input data by separating user data in a code domain and the second non-spread OFDMA subassembly 240 recovers the second input data.
Abstract:
In an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system including at least one base station and at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), sub-carriers are allocated for data transmissions to multiple access WTRUs, where sub-carriers are allocated according to a consecutive sub-carrier allocation (CSA) type and a distributed sub-carrier allocation (DSA) type. Pilot signals with distributed pilot sub-carriers are transmitted and measured at each WTRU to obtain a channel quality metric for each pilot sub-carrier. Each WTRU sends feedback to the base station reporting channel quality based on the measured channel quality metrics. An allocation type is selected and adaptively switched according to channel variations in time and frequency domain.