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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve throughput and reliability in MIMO wireless network systems. SOLUTION: A wireless communication apparatus includes: a receiver for receiving a signal from a user device; a demodulator for demodulating the received signal; a processor for analyzing demodulated information for assessing at least one of CQI (Channel Quality Index), rank, transmission schedule, packet format and resource assignment related to the user device; a forward link assignment message (FLAM) generator for appending update information to a signal generated by the processor for transmission to the user device; and a transmitter for transmitting the FLAM to the user device. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for transmission scheme that supports spatial multiplexing, provides a transmission diversity, and fully utilizes the available transmission power in MIMO systems. SOLUTION: A rate adaptive transmission scheme for MIMO systems, which transmits a variable number of data symbol streams, provides transmission diversity for each data symbol stream, and fully utilizes the total transmission power of the system and the full power of each antenna. In one method, at least one data symbol stream is received for transmission from a plurality of antennas. Each data symbol stream is scaled with a respective weight corresponding to the amount of transmit power allocated to that stream. The scaled data symbol stream(s) is (are) multiplied with a transmit basis matrix to provide a plurality of transmit symbol streams for the plurality of antennas. The transmit basis matrix (e.g., a Walsh-Hadamard matrix or a DFT matrix) is defined such that each data symbol stream is transmitted from all antennas and each transmit symbol stream is transmitted at (or near) the full power for the associated antenna. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques for performing erasure detection and power control for a transmission without error detection coding. SOLUTION: For erasure detection, a transmitter transmits codewords via a wireless channel. A receiver computes a metric for each received codeword, compares the computed metric against an erasure threshold (316), and declares the received codeword to be "erased" or "non-erased". The receiver dynamically adjusts the transmit power on the basis of whether or not the codewords meet the erasure threshold. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of estimating interference in a wireless communication system. SOLUTION: Interference may be controlled by selectively blanking or attenuating transmission power. The method of estimating interference caused by a transmitting entity in a wireless communication system includes determining a desired level of accuracy in an interference estimate value, determining a required number of blanks per subband set to achieve the desired level of accuracy, inserting the required number of blanks per subband set into a frequency hopping (FH) sequence, and performing transmission according to the FH sequence. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus for channel estimation in a system employing different transmission protocols as a broadcast/multicast protocol and a unicast protocol, wherein the number of a pilot tone used for broadcast transmission is greater than the number of a pilot tone used for a unicast transmission and quality of a symbol from a broadcast transmission slot is not deteriorated even when the symbol is adjacent to a symbol from a unicast transmission slot.SOLUTION: In the method, it is determined whether a first time-slot (multicast slot) of one transmission protocol is adjacent to a second time-slot (unicast slot) of another transmission protocol or not. The number of pilot power and/or a pilot sub-carrier is/are increased for an edge symbol of the multicast slot for a purpose of channel estimation using the edge symbol.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a delay diversity scheme which minimizes the possibility of destructive or constructive addition of channels utilized to provide diversity. SOLUTION: A method for providing transmission diversity comprises: providing, to a first antenna, a first symbol after a first delay period; providing, to the first antenna, a second symbol after a second delay period that is different than the first delay period; and providing, to the first antenna, a third symbol after a third delay period that is different than the first delay period and the second delay period. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rate prediction in a fractional reuse system. SOLUTION: The apparatus and method intended to provide rate prediction is an apparatus and method for rate prediction in a wireless communication system involving fractional frequency reuse. A wireless communication system implementing Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) implements a fractional frequency reuse plan, in which a fraction of a carrier is allocated to a terminal having no possibility of handoff and another fraction of the carrier is reserved for a terminal having a higher possibility of handoff. The fractions respectively define a reuse set. The terminal is constrained to frequency hop within a reuse set. The terminal is also configured to determine a reuse set based on a present assignment in a subset of the carrier. The terminal determines a channel estimate and a channel quality indicator partially based on at least the present reuse set. The terminal reports the channel quality indicator to a source, which determines a rate based on the index value. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an efficient pilot transmission method for a multi-antenna communication system. SOLUTION: In one pilot transmission scheme, a first set of T scaled pilot symbols is generated with a first training vector and transmitted (e.g., continuously) from T transmission antennas, where T>1. If MIMO receiver(s) are to be supported by the system, then at least (T-1) additional sets of T scaled pilot symbols are generated with at least (T-1) additional training vectors and transmitted from the T transmit antennas. The training vectors are for different (e.g., orthogonal) spatial directions. Each MISO receiver can estimate its MISO channel based on the first set of scaled pilot symbols. Each MIMO receiver can estimate its MIMO channel based on the first and additional sets of scaled pilot symbols. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of efficiently reducing interference between cells. SOLUTION: For restrictive reuse, each cell (or each sector) is assigned (1) a set of usable subbands that may be allocated to users in the cell and (2) a set of forbidden subbands that is not used. The usable and forbidden sets for each cell are orthogonal to one other. The usable set for each cell partially overlaps the forbidden set for each neighboring cell. If a user (u) observes/causes high level of interference from/to a neighboring cell (y), then the user (u) may be allocated subbands from a "restricted" set containing subbands included in both the usable set for a cell (x) and the forbidden set for a cell (y). The user (u) would then observe/cause no interference from/to cell (y). The subband restriction may be extended to avoid interference from multiple neighboring cells. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for channel estimation in a system employing differing transmission protocols as broadcast/multicast and unicast protocols.SOLUTION: The number of pilot tones used for a broadcast transmission is greater than the number of pilot tones used for a unicast transmission. The channel estimation may be significantly degraded when a symbol from a broadcast transmission slot is adjacent to a symbol from a unicast transmission slot. Therefore, it is determined whether a first time slot of one transmission protocol (multicast slot) is adjacent to a second time slot of another transmission protocol (unicast slot). The pilot power and/or the number of the pilot sub-carriers are/is increased for the edge symbol of the multicast slot for purposes of channel estimation using the edge symbol.