Abstract:
The invention is related to a method of transmitting data from a transmitter to a receiver in particular in a DVB-scenario. Hereby data is transmitted in consecutive bursts and each burst comprises a plurality of Multi-Protocol Encapsulation (MPE) sections and additionally Multi-Protocol Encapsulation - inter-burst-Forward Error Correction (MPE-iFEC) sections and / or Multi-Protocol Encapsulation- Forward Error Correction (MPE-FEC) sections. The content of the transmitted MPE-sections and MPE-iFEC or MPE-FEC sections is mapped into an Application Data Sub-Table (ADST) and an inter-burst-Forward Error Correction Data Sub-Table (iFDST) or Forward Error Correction Data Sub-Table (FDST) respectively. The content of the ADST and iFDST is mapped into ADT's and iFDTS's respectively as far as MPE- and MPE-iFEC sections are concerned. The decoding process is applied on a particular set of ADT and iFDT for MPE- and MPE-iFEC sections and on the ADST and FDST for MPE and MPE-FEC sections and after the decoding was performed on a particular set of ADT and iFDT the data part is copied back into ADST's. According to the invention the ADT and iFDT or ADST and FDST on which decoding shall be applied is divided into several subblocks before being decoded, each subblock containing one or more lines of the ADT and iFDT or ADST and FDST. Each subblock is then forwarded to the decoder, so that decoding is applied on this subblock, whereby the decoder computes the column status for each subblock, namely the total number of erroneous or missing columns in this subblock and decides whether the content of each subblock can be decoded or not based on the column status of this subblock.
Abstract:
A base station apparatus capable of communicating with a user equipment terminal using a downlink shared channel is disclosed. The base station apparatus includes a radio resource allocation unit allocating radio resource blocks to the shared channel after allocating the radio resource blocks to at least one of a synchronization signal, a common control channel, a broadcast channel, a paging channel, an MBMS channel, and a random access response channel.
Abstract:
A remote station, comprises an empty frame detector (220) that detects when a frame is empty and sends a signal indicating such. A counter counts a number of consecutive empty frames. A control processor (222) coupled to the empty frame detector and the counter resets the counter when a good or bad frame is detected. When a number of consecutive empty frames exceeds a threshold, the control processor sends a signal indicating such. A message generator (228), coupled to the control processor, generates a message requiring a reply from a base station when it receives the signal and a transmitter (232) transmits the message.
Abstract:
In a method of detecting whether a transmitted data frame is a discontinuous transmission (DTX) frame, a signal metric corresponding to the transmitted data frame is generated in a decoding operation used to decode the data frame from a signal carrying the frame that is received by a base station receiver. A signal energy of the transmitted data frame is determined based on the signal metric, and used for determining whether the transmitted data frame is a DTX frame.
Abstract:
An apparatus and a method are provided for improving reception reliability for control channels by detecting time division multiple (TDM) frames transmitted through the control channels in a TDM mobile communication system. The apparatus and method include receiving the frame through the forward control channel and performing a cyclic redundancy checking (CRC) with respect to the frame, thereby outputting a first error detection bit, measuring reception power for the frame, calculating a first path metric when decoding a channel of the frame, estimating a second path metric by using the first path metric and the reception power, and outputting a second error detection bit by comparing the second path metric with a predetermined threshold value, and creating and outputting a frame quality bit for detecting validity of the frame based on the first and second error detection bits.
Abstract:
To perform erasure detection for an intermittently active transport channel with unknown format, a receiver determines an energy metric and a symbol error rate (SER) for a received block with CRC failure. The receiver computes uncorrelated random variables u and v for the received block based on the energy metric and SER, the estimated means and standard deviations of the energy metric and SER, and a correlation coefficient indicative of the correlation between the energy metric and SER. The receiver then evaluates the uncorrelated random variables u and v based on at least one decision criterion and declares the received block to be an erased block or a DTX block based on the result of the evaluation. The decision criterion may be defined based on a target probability of false alarm and adjusted based on another metric, such as a zero state bit, for the received block.
Abstract:
Techniques to detect for DTX frames in a 'primary' transmission that may be sent in a non-continuous manner using a 'secondary' transmission that is sent during periods of no transmission for the primary transmission. The primary and secondary transmissions may be the ones sent on the F-DCCH and Forward Power Control Subchannel, respectively, in an IS-2000 system. In one method, a determination is first made whether or not a frame received for the primary transmission in a particular frame interval is a good frame (e.g., based on CRC). If the received frame is not a good frame, then a determination is next made whether the received frame is a DTX frame or an erased frame based on a number of metrics determined for the primary and secondary transmissions. The metrics may include symbol error rate of the received frame, secondary transmission (e.g., PC bit) energy, and received frame energy.
Abstract:
There is provided a receiver comprising a processing unit, a communications unit for receiving frames including training sequence symbols or pilot symbols, the processing unit being configured to use Cyclic Redundancy Check for detecting errors in the received frames. When no errors in a given frame are discovered on the basis of the Cyclic Redundancy Check, the processing unit is further configured to define a TSC, training sequence code, bit error rate for the bursts of the given frame on the basis of the training sequence symbols or the pilot symbols; to define an upper limit for the TSC bit error rate; and to determine the given frame to be bad when the TSC bit error rate for the bursts of the given frame is greater than the upper limit of the TSC bit error rate.
Abstract:
Following a transmission comprising a plurality of symbols, an error measurement is generated for each symbol, so that one may distinguish between symbols having a relatively low error and symbols having a relatively high error. A bit rate to be used for subsequent transmission is determined as a function of error measurements of those symbols that have relatively low error. Measurement of the error rate and/or the durations of high and low error conditions may also be used to set other transmission parameters such as error-correcting code and interleaver settings.
Abstract:
Apparatus (38), and an associated method, for generating a message summary field (72). The message summary field (72) indicates whether 802.11-formatted data packets are communicated upon a frequency range to which a mobile station (12) operable in an IEEE 802.11 radio communication system (10) is tuned. An indicator (44) indicates whether an 802.11 data packet is detected. And, a reporter (56) generates a measurement summary (68) which includes a measurement summary field (72) populated with a value indicating the determination. Subsequent analysis of the value of the field (72) of the measurement summary (68) is utilized pursuant to dynamic frequency selection operations.