Abstract:
A method for outer loop power control in a wireless communication system begins by determining if a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) is available. If the CRC is available, the method uses the CRC to calculate an adjustment for a target signal to interference ratio (SIR) for a coded composite transport channel (CCTrCH). If the CRC is not available, then quality measurements of the CCTrCH are taken. The quality measurements are used to calculate an adjustment for the target SIR, which is then updated.
Abstract:
A method, system, and components for outer loop power control (500) particularly useful for non-real time data services uses data transmitted in many short bursts of short duration, called Temp-DCH allocations (509). A target metric, preferably target SIR (502), is adjusted with differing step up and step down target metric adjustments. The initial target SIR (502) and the transient step size for target SIR adjustment (505-507) is determined in a dynamic way in the outer loop power control for each Temp-DCH allocation (509) of non-real time data.
Abstract:
A wireless communication system and method for controlling transmission power to maintain a received signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) as close as possible to a target SIR. A received quality is maintained as close as possible to a target quality based on block error rate (BLER). When a target BLER is converted to an initial target SIR, an error may occur due to a channel condition mismatch, since the target SIR required for the target BLER varies with channel conditions. An outer loop power control process is used to set a target SIR for each coded composite transport channel (CCTrCH) based on the required target BLER. The process adjusts a SIR step size parameter to maximize the convergence speed of the process.
Abstract:
The downlink (DL) communication of single channel codewords is supported by providing a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmitter and receiver. The transmitter includes N T transmit antennas for transmitting spatial streams to a receiver having N R receive antennas, a precoder and a space- time or space-frequency matrix construction unit in communication with the precoder and the transmit antennas. The space-time or space-frequency matrix construction unit constructs a matrix that defines a threaded algebraic space- time (TAST) codeword based on a number of virtual antennas, N V , and the number of transmit antennas, N T . The transmitter operates in an open loop mode when no feedback information from the receiver is available, a semi-open loop mode when channel rank information is available, and a closed loop mode when channel state information (CSI) is available. The receiver is configured to provide feedback to the transmitter on a per received spatial stream basis.
Abstract:
In an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) multiple-in multiple-out (MIMO) wireless communication system, a method for correcting sampler clock frequency offset in a receiver comprises acquiring the frequency offset and symbol timing in a received signal by the receiver. The estimated value of a fractional offset is computed, and a correction in the frequency domain based upon the estimated value of the fractional offset is performed.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for implementing spatial processing with unequal modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) or stream-dependent MCSs are disclosed. Input data may be parsed into a plurality of data streams, and spatial processing is performed on the data streams to generate a plurality of spatial streams. An MCS for each data stream is selected independently. The spatial streams are transmitted via multiple transmit antennas. At least one of the techniques of space time block coding (STBC), space frequency block coding (SFBC), quasi-orthogonal Alamouti coding, time reversed space time block coding, linear spatial processing and cyclic delay diversity (CDD) may be performed on the data/spatial streams. An antennal mapping matrix may then be applied to the spatial streams. The spatial streams are transmitted via multiple transmit antennas. The MCS for each data stream may be determined based on a signal-to-noise ratio of each spatial stream associated with the data stream.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for de-mapping a symbol modulated by a high order quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) are disclosed. A transmitting wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) maps N input bits to one of 2N symbols in a 2N-QAM constellation. A receiving WTRU receives a signal and generates a sample of the received signal. A soft bit value of the most significant bit (MSB) is calculated based on a value of the sample. A magnitude of the soft bit value of the MSB is subtracted from a threshold. The threshold is initially set with respect to the QAM order, N. A soft bit value of the next MSB is calculated based on the subtraction results. The calculation and subtraction steps are repeated for the next MSB until soft bit values of all the remaining bits are obtained while diving the threshold by 2 each iteration.
Abstract:
The present invention is related to a method and apparatus for implementing space frequency block coding (SFBC) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) wireless communication system. The present invention is applicable to both a closed loop mode and an open loop mode. In the closed loop mode, power loading and eigen-beamforming are performed based on channel state information (CSI). A channel coded data stream is multiplexed into two or more data streams. Power loading is performed based on the CSI on each of the multiplexed data streams. SFBC encoding is performed on the data streams for each of the paired subcarriers. Then, eigen-beamforming is performed based on the CSI to distribute eigenbeams to multiple transmit antennas. The power loading may be performed on two or more SFBC encoding blocks or on each eigenmodes. Additionally, the power loading may be performed across subcarriers or subcarrier groups for weak eigenmodes.
Abstract:
A method and system for link adaptation in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) wireless communication system are disclosed. The entire sub-channels are divided into a plurality of groups. A channel quality indicator (CQI) is generated for each group based on channel quality status in each group, and communication parameters are adjusted in accordance with the CQI.
Abstract:
A method system and components for outer loop power control which compensates for changing channel conditions. A target metric, preferably target signal-to-interference ratio (SIR), is adjusted with differing step up and step down levels to converge on a relatively low steady state level of step up and step down target metric adjustments. The initial target SIR remains fixed during an inner loop settling state, followed by incremental target SIR adjustments during a transient state, and smaller incremental target SIR adjustments in a steady state. Step sizes of the adjustments are preferably based on the target block error rate (BLER) and the number of errors detected within predetermined time intervals.