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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques for reducing interference to a non-serving base station (a femto cell) when supporting data transmission on an uplink in a wireless network.SOLUTION: A user equipment (UE) can send a data transmission to a serving base station and can send uplink control information (UCI) to a non-serving base station. The UCI includes pertinent information to allow the non-serving base station to process the data transmission from the UE. The UCI allows the non-serving base station to estimate the interference due to the data transmission from the UE and to cancel the interference at the non-serving base station. The interference cancellation can improve the received signal quality at the non-serving base station. After the interference cancellation, the non-serving base station can process a data transmission from another UE served by the base station.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques for encoding and decoding data.SOLUTION: Multiple code rates for a forward error correction (FEC) code may be supported, and a suitable code rate may be selected based on packet size. A transmitter may obtain at least one threshold to use for code rate selection, determine a packet size to use for data transmission, and select a code rate among the multiple FEC code rates based on the packet size and the at least one threshold. Multiple FEC codes of different types (e.g., Turbo, LDPC, and convolutional codes) may be supported, and a suitable FEC code may be selected based on packet size. The transmitter may obtain at least one threshold to use for FEC code selection and may select an FEC code among the multiple FEC codes based on the packet size and the at least one threshold.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques to flexibly support different bandwidths in a wireless communication system.SOLUTION: The system supports a configurable operating bandwidth using a fixed design bandwidth and variable guard bands. Values for various parameters such as fast Fourier transform (FFT) size, cyclic prefix length, and sample rate may be selected based on the design bandwidth. The design bandwidth may be associated with K total subcarriers. Different operating bandwidths may be supported by selecting different numbers of usable subcarriers. A transmitter and a receiver may perform processing for a transmission using the same FFT size, cyclic prefix length, and sample rate regardless of the selected operating bandwidth. The system may use different operating bandwidths and/or different parameter values for different portions of a transmission.
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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.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate management of wireless communications in a heterogeneous wireless access point (AP) environment.SOLUTION: System data of an over-the-air message can be configured to include information identifying a distinct type of transmitting base station. In some aspects, the information can include an access type of the base station and/or a sector ID for distinguishing the base station among large numbers of other base stations. According to other aspects, the information can include wireless channel resources designated for a particular type of base station, or blanked by the transmitting base station, to facilitate interference reduction on such resources. By employing aspects of wireless communication management, efficient and reliable communication can be affected in large heterogeneous AP networks.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide systems and methods that designate a control attachment point(s) during transmission of data in a coordinated multipoint (CoMP) system.SOLUTION: The control attachment point is represented by an anchor cell to address control signaling and represent interaction of user equipment (UE) with a wireless communication system from a perspective of control (e.g., supplying/sending grants to the UE, transmitting/receiving ACKS on a downlink/uplink to the UE and control information (CQI), and the like.) The cells can further engage in backhaul transfer of information therebetween, and dynamic switching/change of an anchor point based on criteria such as control loading and channel quality can further be implemented.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide systems and methodologies that facilitate utilizing different power control algorithms as a function of access terminal speed.SOLUTION: Instantaneous channel quality indicator (CQI) reports can be inverted for slow moving access terminals while long-term geometry inversion (e.g., average CQI report inversion) can be utilized for quick moving access terminals. Speed of the access terminal can be estimated upon the basis of time correlation of CQI values. Further, selection of implementing instantaneous CQI inversion or long-term geometry inversion can be based upon the estimated speed of the access terminal.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve excellent detection performance by transmitting signaling with localized spreading.SOLUTION: A transmitter (e.g., a base station) spreads multiple signaling symbols to obtain multiple sets of output symbols and further maps the multiple sets of output symbols to multiple time frequency blocks. The spreading may be localized to each time frequency block. Prior to the spreading, the transmitter may scale the multiple signaling symbols with multiple gains determined based on the transmission power for these signaling symbols. The transmitter may scramble the scaled signaling symbols to obtain scrambled symbols and may spread the scrambled symbols to obtain the multiple sets of output symbols. The transmitter may map each set of output symbols to a respective time frequency block.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques of efficiently transmitting various types of data in an SC-FDMA system.SOLUTION: In an SC-FDMA system that utilizes IFDMA or LFDMA, a transmitter generates modulation symbols for different types of data and performs CDM on at least one data type. For example, the transmitter may apply CDM to signaling and/or pilot sent on frequency subbands and symbol periods that are also used by at least one other transmitter. To apply CDM to a given data type (e.g., signaling), the transmitter performs spreading on the modulation symbols for that data type. CDM may be applied across symbols, samples, both samples and symbols, frequency subbands, and so on.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide communication systems and methods that mitigate false alarms due to a Doppler shift.SOLUTION: Received data is mapped to orthogonal Walsh codes, interleaved and scrambled with appropriate PN sequence prior to transmission. The transmitted data is descrambled and deinterleaved upon reception. The energies associated with each of the Walsh codes from various antennas and/or signal paths are combined to obtain a total energy for each Walsh code. If the total energy of the Walsh code exceeds a certain threshold, the Walsh code is declared as the received message; if not, an erasure is indicated. As the data is interleaved prior to transmission, any phase ramp introduced due to the Doppler is transformed into random phase errors upon deinterleaving at a receiver, thereby mitigating false alarms.