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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques to perform channel estimation using pilot weighting.SOLUTION: A receiver receives at least one transmission symbol for one transmitted pilot. Each transmission symbol is generated using a single-carrier multiplexing scheme (e.g., IFDMA or LFDMA) or a multi-carrier multiplexing scheme (e.g., OFDMA). An interference estimate is derived on the basis of received pilot values obtained by processing the respective received transmission symbols, and the reliability of the received pilot values is estimated based on the interference estimate. Weights for the received pilot values are estimated on the basis of the transmitted pilot values, the estimated reliability of the received pilot values, and/or other information. A channel estimate is derived on the basis of the received pilot values and the weights. Thereafter, data detection (e.g., equalization) is executed on received data values using the channel estimate.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method that can perform various operations based on distance-related functions associated with two or more devices.SOLUTION: Association procedures may be performed based on a distance-related function associated for two or more devices. Presence management may be based on one or more determined distances. A distance-related function may take various forms including, for example, a distance between devices, two or more distances between devices, a rate of change in a relative distance between devices, relative acceleration between devices, or some combination of two or more of the these distance-related functions.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for performing the communication of a frame having two or more modulation schemes in a single system. SOLUTION: Each part of the communication frames having first and second parts has a plurality of subcarriers, and includes a step of modulating at least one subcarrier in the first part by using a first modulation scheme and a step of modulating one or more subcarriers in the second part by using a second modulation scheme different form the first modulation scheme. First type information is transmitted on at least one of the subcarriers in the first part by using the first modulation scheme. Second type information different from the first type information is transmitted on at least one or more of the subcarriers in the second part by using the second modulation scheme. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide soft handoff with interference cancellation in a wireless frequency-hopping communication system. SOLUTION: Each sector concurrently supports "non-handoff" users and "soft-handoff" users. A non-handoff user communicates with only one sector and is assigned with information channels by the user's own sector. The soft-handoff user communicates with multiple sectors simultaneously and is assigned with information channels by the user's own "serving" sectors. For each sector, information channels assigned to multiple non-handoff users are orthogonal to one another and not always orthogonal to the multiple information channels assigned to the multiple soft-handoff users. Each sector recovers data transmissions from the non-handoff users and estimates interference made by the multiple non-handoff users and cancels the interference. Each sector further processes signals of its own, which have been processed to cancel the interference, so that the data transmissions from the multiple soft-handoff users may be recovered. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a dynamic resource allocation system, apparatus, and method for selectively improving the ability of a receiver to determine a channel estimate value in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) system. SOLUTION: A wireless communication system dynamically allocates channel estimation resources so as to selectively improve the ability of determining a channel estimate value. A receiver sends a request for additional channel estimation resources to a transmitter in the system. The wireless communication system provides the additional channel estimation resources by inserting dedicated pilot channels into one or more of the frequencies allocated to symbols for the receiver. If the receiver is still unable to demodulate received data, the wireless communication system incrementally inserts additional pilot channels in the symbol associated with the receiver. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for flexible bandwidth allocation that improves interference.SOLUTION: In order to flexibly allocate a shared frequency spectrum to a plurality of users, the spectrum may have a first number of segments, each segment having a second number of clusters associated with a certain sector/cell. The method for flexibly allocating a shared frequency spectrum to a plurality of users includes an act of fixedly assigning a first group of clusters to a first group of users such that the first group of users stays fixed to the assigned clusters, and an act of assigning a second group of clusters to a second group of users such that the second group of users hops within the assigned clusters.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide multiplexing for a multicarrier cellular communication system. SOLUTION: For quasi-orthogonal multiplexing in an OFDMA system, multiplex traffic channels are defined for each base station. The traffic channels in each set are orthogonal to one another and can be pseudo-random, with respect to the traffic channels in each of the other sets. The minimum number of sets of channels is used to support a given number of terminals selected for data transmission. Each terminal transmits the data and pilot symbols on its traffic channel. A base station receives data transmissions from all terminals and can perform receiver spatial processing on received symbols with spatial filter matrices to obtain detected data symbols. The spatial filter matrix for each subband can be derived, based on channel response estimates for all terminals transmitting on that subband. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To minimize the amount of pilots to be acquired by both base stations and terminals. SOLUTION: A base station transmits a TDM pilot 1 having multiple instances of a pilot-1 sequence generated with a PN1 sequence and a TDM pilot 2 having at least one instance of a pilot-2 sequence generated with a PN2 sequence. Each base station is assigned a specific PN2 sequence that uniquely identifies that base station. A terminal uses TDM pilot 1 to detect the presence of a signal and uses TDM pilot 2 to discriminate base stations and obtain accurate timing. For signal detection, the terminal performs delayed correlation on received samples, performs direct correlation on the received samples with PN1 sequences for K 1 different time offsets and identifies K 2 strongest TDM pilot-1 instances. For time synchronization, the terminal performs direct correlation on the received samples with PN2 sequences to detect TDM pilot 2. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and a method, for a data transmission in a communication system, enabling increased data throughput on the reverse link. SOLUTION: An access terminal, which desires a data transmission at a TDMA time intervals, evaluates a reverse link quality measurement criterion of the access terminal and an impatience function of the TDMA time intervals to determine an opportunity level (OL1). The access terminal estimates a data rate enabling transmission for the access terminal itself and generates a data type correspondingly thereto. The access terminal next determines whether rules for transmitting the next value on a packet preparation completed channel are satisfied. If the rules are satisfied, the access terminal communicates the required data rate and the opportunity level with time slots (n) and (n+1) on a packet request (PR) channel. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of pilot transmission and channel estimation for an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) system with excess delay spread. SOLUTION: To mitigate the deleterious effects of excess delay spread, the number of pilot subbands is greater than the cyclic prefix length. This "oversampling" may be achieved by using more pilot subbands in each symbol period or different sets of pilot subbands in different symbol periods. First and second groups of received pilot symbols are obtained for first and second symbol periods, respectively, and used to derive first and second frequency response estimates, respectively. First and second impulse response estimates are derived based on the first and second frequency response estimates, respectively, and used to derive a third impulse response estimate having more taps than the number of pilot subbands. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT