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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To generate pilots for signal acquisition in a wireless communication system based on time domain sequences.SOLUTION: The pilots are generated by a base station and transmitted in a pilot field to one or more access terminals to aid in signal acquisition at each of the access terminals. One of the pilots is common to all access points in the wireless communication system, thereby allowing an access terminal to obtain a timing estimate for the system. Further, one or more generated pilots are unique to each access point in order to allow each respective access point to be identified by its generated pilots.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques for efficiently sending control information.SOLUTION: A plurality of control resources are defined and mapped to transmission units for a control segment. For symmetric mapping, multiple sets of control resources are formed, and each batch of L consecutive sets of S control resources is mapped to S transmission units at the same location in the L tiles. For localized mapping, each set of S control resources is mapped to a cluster of S adjacent transmission units in one tile. For distributed mapping, each control resource is mapped to one transmission unit in one tile. For diversity, each control resource is mapped to multiple (e.g., three) transmission units in at least one tile.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques for encoding and decoding data.SOLUTION: Multiple code rates for a forward error correction (FEC) code may be supported, and a suitable code rate may be selected based on packet size. A transmitter may obtain at least one threshold to use for code rate selection, determine a packet size to use for data transmission, and select a code rate among the multiple FEC code rates based on the packet size and the at least one threshold. Multiple FEC codes of different types (e.g., Turbo, LDPC, and convolutional codes) may be supported, and a suitable FEC code may be selected based on packet size. The transmitter may obtain at least one threshold to use for FEC code selection and may select an FEC code among the multiple FEC codes based on the packet size and the at least one threshold.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and method for facilitating guard bandwidth independent mapping and de-mapping of a bandwidth in a wireless communication system.SOLUTION: To map symbols to a bandwidth independent of guard tones, a broadcast message is encoded into a plurality of broadcast symbols (502); and mapped to the entire bandwidth (504); and the guard tones are zeroed out (506). Then, the broadcast symbols and the guard tones are transformed to a time domain (508), and transmitted as a broadcast signal (510).
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wireless communication system with a multiplication scheme that does not have a high PAPR.SOLUTION: Enhanced frequency division multiple access (EFDMA) is a multiplexing scheme that sends modulation symbols in the time domain and achieves a lower PAPR. An EFDMA symbol occupies multiple subband groups that are spaced apart in a frequency band, with each subband group containing multiple adjacent subbands. To generate an EFDMA symbol, multiple modulation symbols are mapped onto a first sequence of symbols. A transform is performed on the first sequence to obtain a second sequence. The values in the second sequence corresponding to the subbands used for the EFDMA symbol are retained, and the remaining values are zeroed out to obtain a third sequence. An inverse transform is performed on the third sequence to obtain a fourth sequence.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques to support simultaneous transmissions for more terminals in a multiple-access system. SOLUTION: In a single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system that utilizes interleaved FDMA (IFDMA) or localized FDMA, transmitters may transmit their pilots, which are orthogonal to one another, using time division multiplexing (TDM), code division multiplexing (CDM), interleaved frequency division multiplexing (IFDM) or localized frequency division multiplexing (LFDMA). A receiver performs the complementary demultiplexing (non-multiplexing) for the pilots and may derive a channel estimate for each transmitter using an MMSE technique or a least-square technique. Data transmissions sent on the same time-frequency block are separated by spatial filter matrices. The spatial filter matrices are derived based on the channel estimates and using zero-forcing, MMSE, or maximal ratio combining technique. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for efficiently designing random hopping patterns in a communications system.SOLUTION: In this method, random hopping patterns are generated, the patterns are frequently updated, different patterns are generated for different cells/sectors, and patterns of nearby sub-carriers are generated for block hopping. A first number of sub-carriers are determined. A second number of hop ports are determined. A third number of seeds are determined. At least one hopping pattern is generated based on the first number of sub-carriers, the second number of hop ports and the third number of seeds.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques for performing cell detection by using interference cancellation.SOLUTION: User equipment (UE) may detect pilots from cells in a wireless network by using interference cancellation. The UE processes a received signal to detect pilots from one or more cells. The pilots are common pilots transmitted with a reuse factor of one or low reuse pilots transmitted with a reuse factor greater than one. The UE may estimate the interference from a detected cell (e.g., the strongest detected cell) and may cancel the estimated interference from the received signal. The UE may then process the interference-canceled signal to detect pilots from additional cells. The UE is capable of detecting pilots from more cells, e.g., from weaker cells, by canceling the interference caused by the pilots from the detected cells.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques for transmitting overload indicators over the air to UEs in neighbor cells.SOLUTION: In one design, an overload indicator may be transmitted as a phase difference between at least one synchronization signal and a reference signal for a cell. In another design, an overload indicator may be transmitted as a phase difference between consecutive transmissions of at least one synchronization signal for a cell. In yet another design, an overload indicator may be transmitted by a cell on resources reserved for transmitting the overload indicator. In yet another design, an overload indicator may be transmitted by a cell on a low reuse channel or a broadcast channel. For all designs, a UE may receive overload indicators from neighbor cells, determine the loading of each neighbor cell on the basis of the overload indicator for that cell, and control its operation on the basis of the loading of the neighbor cells.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide systems and methodologies that facilitate identifying resources upon which an acknowledgment can be sent or received in a wireless communication environment that leverages coordinated multi-point (CoMP).SOLUTION: The resources are identified on the basis of criteria that are identifiable to a non-anchor cell base station as well as an anchor cell base station, a mobile device, etc. The criteria can be an identifier corresponding to a mobile device. The identifier is mapped to a predetermined set of resources. Examples of the identifier can include a media access control identifier (MACID), a cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI), a short C-RNTI, etc. The criteria are used to identify physical resources used in a transmission in a cooperation environment such as inter-site packet sharing, cooperative beamforming, or cooperative silence, where the acknowledgment is responsive to the transmission.