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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a base station for partitioning and allocating available system resources among cells in a communication system and for allocating resources in each cell for data transmission via an uplink to terminals. SOLUTION: A resource allocation processor included in the base station in the communication system is configured to schedule one or more terminals for uplink data transmission and allocate a channel to each scheduled terminal. The resource allocation processor is configured to receive channel state information (CSI) showing one or more characteristics, schedule terminals and allocate a channel on the basis of the CSI. The resource allocation processor is further configured to determine a plurality of backoff factors with respect to the plurality of channels on the basis of at least a portion of the CSI. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve transmit diversity for a legacy single-antenna receiving device. SOLUTION: A multi-antenna transmitting entity transmits data to a single- or multi-antenna receiving entity using (1) a steered mode to direct the data transmission toward the receiving entity or (2) a pseudo-random transmit steering (PRTS) mode to randomize the effective channels observed by the data transmission across the subbands. The receiving entity does not need to have knowledge of the pseudo-random steering vectors or perform any special processing. For spatial spreading, the transmitting entity uses different pseudo-random steering vectors across the subbands and different steering vectors across the packet for each subband. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques to partition and allocate the available system resources among cells in a communication system, and to allocate resources in each cell to the terminals for data transmission via the uplink. SOLUTION: In one aspect, adaptive reuse schemes are provided wherein the available system resources may be dynamically and/or adaptively partitioned and allocated to the cells based on a number of factors such as the observed interference levels, loading conditions, system requirements, and so on. A reuse plan is initially defined and may be redefined, to reflect changes in the system. In another aspect, the system resources may be partitioned, such that each cell is allocated a set of channels having different performance levels. In yet another aspect, terminals in each cell are scheduled for data transmission (e.g., based on their priority or the load requirements) and assigned channels, based on their tolerance to interference and the performance of the channel. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a data detection method with reduced complexity while achieving good performance in decoding of MIMO communication using a plurality of data streams.SOLUTION: Order of detecting data symbols sent in a MIMO communication is selected (412) based on at least one attribute of the data symbols, such as error probability, modulation scheme, and/or link margin. Sphere detection is performed (414) for the data symbols in the selected order. The log likelihood ratios (LLRs) for code bits of the data symbols are computed (416) based on candidate hypotheses for the data symbols.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To rapidly and accurately detect packets transmitted with different timing, frequency and transmit power, and acquire timing and frequency.SOLUTION: Based on signals from a receive antenna, using signals of electric power calculation 520 and a moving average 522 etc., a packet detector 526 determines the presence of a packet. Based on signals from delay-multiply-integrates 510 and 530, using phase calculation 534, a start-of-packet detector 536 detects the start of the packet. In addition, based on signals from delay-multiply-integrate 540, using phase calculation 544, a frequency error estimator 546 estimates a packet frequency error to be regarded as a frequency correction value. Similarly, an end-of-packet detector 556 detects the end of the packet.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide various techniques for performing sphere detection to recover data symbols sent in a MIMO transmission.SOLUTION: In an aspect, sphere detection is performed for data symbols generated with at least two modulation schemes. In another aspect, sphere detection is performed for the data symbols in an order based on at least one attribute of the data symbols such as error probabilities of the data symbols, modulation schemes used for the data symbols, and link margins for the data symbols. In yet another aspect, rates for multiple data streams detected with sphere detection are selected based on channel state information. The channel state information includes a channel estimate, a noise estimate, an interference estimate, a power measurement, and a signal quality estimate. After signal qualities of the data streams are estimated based on an upper triangular matrix used for sphere detection and/or an assumption that interference from data streams already detected is canceled, the rates for the data streams are selected based on the estimated signal qualities.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus for increasing spectrum use efficiency in a mesh network.SOLUTION: Mesh Network Access Points (APs) include gateways and routers. The APs monitor (1010) the communication channel for request-to-send-messages. When a request-to-send message is observed (1020), the gateway or the router calculates the bearing to the transmitter (1030). The gateway or the router focuses the antenna beam toward the sector containing the bearing (1040). The sectors may be the same for the entire mesh network or they may be unique to the individual router or mesh network.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a receiver for a wireless communication network with an extended range.SOLUTION: Techniques for detecting and demodulating a signal/transmission are described. Signal detection is performed in multiple stages using different types of signal processing, e.g., using time-domain correlation for a first stage, frequency-domain processing for a second stage, and time-domain processing for a third stage. For the first stage, products of symbols are generated for at least two different delays, correlation between the products for each delay and known values is performed, and correlation results for all delays are combined and used to declare the presence of a signal. For demodulation, the timing of input samples is adjusted to obtain timing-adjusted samples. A frequency offset is estimated and removed from the timing-adjusted samples to obtain frequency-corrected samples, which are processed with a channel estimate to obtain detected symbols.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently perform spatial processing for improving characteristics in a multiple input multiple output system. SOLUTION: A first spatial filter matrix for a first transmission span is derived, a first initial spatial filter matrix for a second transmission span is determined on the basis of the first spatial filter matrix, a second spatial filter matrix for the second transmission span is derived on the basis of the first initial spatial filter matrix, thereby deriving spatial filter matrices in a wireless MIMO communication system. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for supporting peer-to-peer (PTP) communication between wireless devices. SOLUTION: For a peer-to-peer call in an ad hoc wireless communication network, a wireless device performs discovery of a target wireless device, performs authentication of the target wireless device, generates a session key, forms an ad hoc wireless communication network with the target wireless device, and communicates peer-to-peer with the target wireless device via the ad hoc wireless network. The wireless device may perform discovery with a list of identifiers for wireless devices designated to communicate with this wireless device. The wireless device may derive a service set identifier (SSID) used to identify the ad hoc wireless communication network based on its user-specific identifier (e.g., its phone number) and/or a user-specific identifier for the target wireless device. The wireless device may also perform IP address discovery using the user-specific identifier for the target wireless device. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT