Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wireless media access control which supports asynchronous communication.SOLUTION: A scheduled transmission may be divided up into several segments so that a transmitting node may receive and transmit control messages between segments. A monitoring period is defined after a scheduled transmission period to enable the transmitting node to acquire control information that may originally have been transmitted during the scheduled transmission period. A wireless media access control supports asynchronous communication and overlapping transmissions. A wireless node may determine whether to request or schedule a transmission on the basis of control messages it receives from neighboring nodes. Data and control information is transmitted over different frequency division multiplexed channels to enable concurrent transmission of the data and control information.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve the inter-node fairness of wireless communication using resource utilization messages (RUMs), in accordance with various aspects.SOLUTION: A RUM may be generated for a first node, such as an access point or an access terminal, to indicate that a first predetermined threshold has been met or exceeded. The RUM may be weighted to indicate a degree to which a second predetermined threshold has been exceeded. The first and/or second predetermined thresholds may be associated with various parameters associated with the node, such as latency, throughput, data rate, spectral efficiency, carrier-to-interference ratio, interference-over-thermal level, etc. The RUM may then be transmitted to one or more other nodes to indicate a level of disadvantage experienced by the first node.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable interference management on uplinks in wireless communication systems.SOLUTION: User equipment transmits, to base stations, interference information including a link priority on a serving communication link, and the like (640). The base stations either compute predicted SINRs based on transmission or backoff and therefore do not transmit (650). The base stations determine degradation in the transmission rate on the serving communication link if the base stations transmit (660). The base stations schedule transmission of information from the base stations (or backoff) on the basis of parameters included in the interference information and the predicted SINRs determined by the base stations.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wireless media access control which supports asynchronous communication and overlapping transmissions, where a wireless node may determine whether to request or schedule a transmission on the basis of control messages received from neighboring nodes.SOLUTION: In some embodiments, a scheduled transmission may be divided into several segments so that a transmitting node may receive and transmit control messages between segments. In some embodiments, a monitoring period is defined after a scheduled transmission period to enable the transmitting node to acquire control information that may otherwise have been transmitted during the scheduled transmission period. In some embodiments, data and control information are transmitted over different frequency division multiplexed channels to enable concurrent transmission of the data and control information.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize efficient resource negotiation by determining a transmission delay threshold, at which the resource negotiation information becomes invalid, between base stations that exchange the information, and by discarding the information transmitted with delays beyond the threshold.SOLUTION: One or more resource negotiation messages are received at a base station (S402). The resource negotiation messages received with delays beyond a determined delay threshold are discarded (S404). Using only the non-discarded resource negotiation messages, resources are allocated with a distributed resource negotiation algorithm (S406).
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To determine nominal interference from one or more interfering base stations.SOLUTION: The method includes computing a nominal interference. The method also includes transmitting the nominal interference to one or more interfering base stations. The nominal interference can be transmitted to the one or more interfering base stations to compute a loss in a transmission rate to user equipment in a selected cell if at least one of the one or more interfering base stations transmits over a same set of resources on which the user equipment in the selected cell receives information.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide systems and methods that facilitate providing high reuse for transmitting reference signals, such as positioning reference signals (PRS) and cell-specific reference signals (CRS), to improve audibility thereof for applications such as trilateration and/or the like.SOLUTION: PRSs can be transmitted in designated or selected positioning subframes. Resource elements within the positioning subframe can be selected for transmitting the PRSs and can avoid conflict with designated control regions, resource elements used for transmitting cell-specific reference signals, and/or the like. Resource elements for transmitting PRSs can be selected according to a planned or pseudo-random reuse scheme. In addition, a transmit diversity scheme can be applied to the PRSs to minimize impact of introducing the PRSs to legacy devices. Moreover, portions of a subframe not designated for PRS transmission can be utilized for user plane data transmission.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To convey unicast information and broadcast information in a resource set for a transmission request.SOLUTION: The unicast information and broadcast information can be transmitted at substantially the same time. Power control is applied separately to the unicast information and the broadcast information for reliable decoding. A null request can be indicated by "00" bits in a unicast portion and a zero power level in a broadcast portion.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve network interference management for wireless networks.SOLUTION: Signaling-only access may be established with an access node under certain circumstances such as, for example, upon determining that a node is not authorized for data access at the access node. A node that is not authorized for data access at an access node may still be paged by the access node through the use of signaling-only access. In this way, transmissions by the access node may not interfere with the reception of pages at the node. A first node may be selected for providing paging while a second node is selected for access under certain circumstances such as, for example, upon determining that the second node provides more desirable service than the first node.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for supporting asynchronous communication and overlapping transmissions in an ad hoc network.SOLUTION: A wireless node determines whether or not a transmission should be requested or scheduled based on control messages received from neighboring nodes. A scheduled transmission is divided into several segments so that a transmitting node can receive and transmit the control messages between segments. A monitoring period is defined after a scheduled transmission period to enable the transmitting node to acquire control information that may otherwise have been transmitted during the scheduled transmission period. Data and control information are transmitted over different frequency division multiplexed channels to enable concurrent transmission of the data and control information.