Abstract:
A method at a device having an antenna and a plurality of parasitic elements, and the device, the method sensing a change in impedance of the antenna; selecting a subset of parasitic element options from a set of parasitic element options based on a stored table of impedances; if the subset of parasitic element options is greater than one, determining a channel quality measure for each parasitic element option within the subset of parasitic element options; and performing a beam steering action based on the change in antenna impedance and channel quality measure if determined, the beam steering action comprising selecting one or more of the plurality of parasitic elements to activate.
Abstract:
A method in a wireless terminal transceiver includes receiving a sequence of frames from a first base station, wherein each frame in the sequence contains a first set of time-frequency resources which may be used for scheduling data and a second set of time-frequency resources not used for scheduling data. The transceiver also receives a message from the first base station identifying a third set of time-frequency resources that is a subset of the first set of time-frequency resources, and estimates the channel state based on the transmission received in the third set of time-frequency resources.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for service continuity on a mobile communication device is disclosed. The method can include receiving (320) a first service on a first carrier, where the first service can have a multicast subframe allocation pattern. The method can include establishing (340) a connection on a second carrier on a universal mobile telecommunication system. The method can include informing (350) a source of the second carrier of the multicast subframe allocation pattern of the first service. The method can include receiving (360) scheduling grants for subframes on the second carrier. The subframes corresponding to the received scheduling grants can be distinct from subframes corresponding to the multicast subframe allocation pattern of the first service. The method can include receiving (370) a second service on the second carrier based on the scheduling grants while receiving the first service on the first carrier.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a broadcast channel signal and apparatus for managing the transmission and receipt of broadcast channel information, where a known difference in the data prior to encoding for transmission produces a predictable difference, which can be removed or cancelled from the multiple received active frames, such that their differences can be negated prior to combining and subsequently decoding. In at least one embodiment one or more applied linear encoding techniques can allow for a predictable difference in the encoded values based upon a knowledge of the difference prior to encoding.
Abstract:
Various methods and apparatuses provide unicast channel data acquisition, such as antenna information, from MBMS subframes. A method of operating a wireless communications network infrastructure entity is disclosed comprising defining a subframe (400) comprising a unicast symbol (401) in a predetermined first symbol position within said subframe (400), said unicast symbol (401) comprising at least a first unicast antenna reference symbol; defining a second symbol position (403) within said subframe (400) for containing at least a second unicast antenna reference symbol, said second symbol position (403) being a multicast symbol position for transmitting a multicast symbol; and transmitting said subframe (400) wherein said unicast symbol (401) comprises said at least first unicast antenna reference symbol and wherein said multicast symbol (403) comprises said at least second unicast antenna reference symbol.
Abstract:
A wireless communication device for receiving a frame (200) corresponding to a transmission time interval, the frame having a control channel (210) including at least two control channel elements (212, 214) and an embedded bit sequence, the location of which indicates a portion of the control channel used for radio resource assignment, wherein the portion of the control channel used for radio resource assignment may be less than the entire control channel of the frame having the embedded bit sequence, and wherein the at least two frames may use different portions of the control channel for radio resource assignment.
Abstract:
A base station (103) assigns a set of mobile stations (101) to a group wherein the group will share a set of radio resources (770). A control field (1103) may be sent with a payload field (1105) wherein the control field (1103) and payload field (1105) are sent using a single Orthogonal Variable Spreading Factor or a single Walsh Code (1101) wherein various modulation and coding schemes may be applied to the control field (1103) and payload field (1105) such that different modulation and coding schemes may be used within the single channel. HARQ is handled by sending a single retransmission if a NACK message is received or no ACK/NACK message is received at all.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for communications channel symbol recovery that improves equalizer performance adds together the log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) of different decision delays rather than using LLRs corresponding only to a single decision delay. A low complexity method comprises, determining an initial coarse delay and a set of fine delays (1003), estimating a training sequence and filter taps set for each fine delay (1007), determining an error function for each fine delay (1009), and linearly combining the filter taps (1013) for determining the symbol estimates (1017).