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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for providing uplink signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) estimation, in a wireless communication system.SOLUTION: A first signal is received by a first channel and a second signal is received by a second channel. The second signal is received at a higher signal power level than the first signal. A signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the second signal is measured, and the SNR of the first signal is determined based at least in part upon the measured SNR of the second signal.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and method for evaluating a packet and a frame in a wireless communication system having a plurality of reverse-link channels including a burst-oriented transmission channel and a corresponding rate indicator channel in a natural generation manner.SOLUTION: A rate indicator channel is monitored, a most-likelihood decoder is used to decode the rate indicator channel, and likelihood is compared with a threshold to detect presence of a packet on the rate indicator channel (520) and on the basis of the presence and contents of the packet received on the rate indicator channel, validity of a frame on a burst-oriented channel is analyzed (530).
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and system for improving channel estimation in a wireless communication system.SOLUTION: A wireless signal that includes a plurality of multipath components is received. N channel estimates are then obtained, where N is any positive integer greater than one. Each channel estimate of the N channel estimates corresponds to a different multipath component of the plurality of multipath components. The effects of interference between the plurality of multipath components on the N channel estimates is then reduced.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide systems and methods facilitating communication of downlink information.SOLUTION: A method comprises the steps of: receiving a signal indicative of a base station enabling or disabling a function, where the function is configured to transmit information carried in control channels using selected downlink information; receiving the selected downlink information at one or more locations; and determining a resource allocation of at least one of paging information, system information and unicast data information on the basis at least of the selected downlink information. This determination can be performed without decoding control channels corresponding to the selected downlink information in response to receiving a signal indicative of the function being enabled.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allocate a sequence resource through randomization that is operable upon a wireless communication device.SOLUTION: Different sequence resources can be allocated to a mobile device where the mobile device can exclusively use the sequence resource with regard to a base station during a communication session. However, if another mobile device using another base station is assigned a matching sequence resource, then there can be interference if the mobile devices are relatively close enough together. Therefore, randomization of the sequence resources can take place, moreover, a cyclic shift result is employed in sequence resource allocation to attempt to minimize interference.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide systems and methods that facilitate signaling and detecting discontinuous transmission (DTX) in a wireless communication environment.SOLUTION: A DTX indicator and channel quality indicator (CQI) feedback can be multiplexed within a common uplink control channel subframe and transmitted to a base station when an access terminal is operating in a DTX mode for an acknowledgement channel. Further, when operating in a non-DTX mode, the access terminal can multiplex an ACK indicator or a NAK indicator with the CQI feedback within a common uplink control channel subframe, which can thereafter be transferred to the base station. Accordingly, the base station can detect DTX operation or non-DTX operation of the access terminal.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate efficient cell acquisition in a wireless communication system.SOLUTION: A reference signal for use in cell acquisition can be constructed in a bandwidth-agnostic manner such that it contains a common central portion in a predetermined frequency band that is independent of a bandwidth utilized by an associated wireless communication system. The central portion can be constructed as a two-dimensional block in time and frequency that spans a default cell search bandwidth, a predetermined bandwidth specified by synchronization codes or other signals, or another suitable bandwidth. A reference signal can then be constructed to form the central portion by tiling or expanding the central portion such that it spans the entire system bandwidth.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently support frequency selective scheduling (FSS) and frequency diversity scheduling (FDS).SOLUTION: A first transmission to an FSS user is mapped to a subband selected for this user from among at least one subband in a first frequency region of the system bandwidth (1112). A second transmission to an FDS user is mapped across multiple subbands in a second frequency region of the system bandwidth (1114). OFDM symbols or SC-FDM symbols are generated with the first transmission mapped to the selected subband in the first frequency region and the second transmission mapped to the multiple subbands in the second frequency region (1116).
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques for supporting MIMO transmission with layer permutation.SOLUTION: Multiple codewords may be generated for transmission from multiple antennas (e.g., virtual antennas), with the number of codewords being less than the number of antennas. Each codeword is mapped to the multiple antennas. For rank 3, the first codeword may be mapped to one layer (or one antenna on each subcarrier), and the second codeword may be mapped to two layers (or two antennas on each subcarrier). For rank 4, each codeword may be mapped to two layers. A base CQI indicative of an average signal quality may be determined. A delta CQI indicative of improvement over the average signal quality may also be determined. Selection may be performed with different penalty factors for different ranks or number of codewords.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques for sending control information in a wireless communication system.SOLUTION: A UE spreads control information across frequency with a DFT and across time with an orthogonal sequence. The UE receives codewords for N HARQ processes in N subframes, determines an ACK value for each HARQ process, codes N ACK values for the N HARQ processes to obtain ACK information, determines output data for the ACK information, and sends the output data in one of M uplink subframes. First control information is processed based on a first coding and multiplexing scheme utilizing code division multiplexing in the time and frequency domains. Second control information is processed based on a second coding and multiplexing scheme utilizing code division multiplexing in the time domain and spreading in the frequency domain.