METHODS AND APPARATUS OF IMPLEMENTING AND/OR USING A DEDICATED CONTROL CHANNEL

    公开(公告)号:HK1126347A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-08-28

    申请号:HK09102495

    申请日:2009-03-16

    Applicant: QUALCOMM INC

    Abstract: Wireless terminals and base stations support multiple modes of dedicated control channel operation wherein wireless terminals are allocated different amounts of dedicated uplink resources for reporting control information. A set of dedicated control channel segments is utilized by a wireless terminal to communicate uplink control information reports to its serving base station attachment point. Full tone and split-tone modes of dedicated control channel operation are supported. In full tone mode, a single wireless terminal is allocated each of the dedicated control channel segments associated with a single logical tone. In split tone mode, dedicated control channel segments associated with a single logical tone are allocated between different wireless terminals, with each of the multiple wireless terminals receiving a different non-overlapping subset of the dedicated control channel segments. Logical dedicated control channel tones can be dynamically reallocated for full-tone mode use or split tone mode use.

    Estaciones base sectorizadas como sistemas de múltiples antenas

    公开(公告)号:ES2809473T3

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-04

    申请号:ES13151013

    申请日:2008-05-27

    Applicant: QUALCOMM INC

    Abstract: Un procedimiento para hacer funcionar un terminal inalámbrico (300) en una célula sectorizada (104), siendo cada sector adyacente al menos a otro sector en la célula, y en el que los sectores adyacentes forman pares de sectores, con cada célula que incluye una estación base (102) acoplada a una antena de estación base de múltiples caras (118, 120, 122), con el procedimiento que comprende: transmitir información de pérdida de ruta correspondiente a una primera cara de antena (118) de la antena de estación base de múltiples caras a dicha estación base (102); transmitir información de pérdida de ruta correspondiente a una segunda cara de antena de la antena de estación base de múltiples caras a dicha estación base (102); y recibir una señal de dicha estación base (102) que indica si dicho terminal inalámbrico (300) debe funcionar en un estado de sector durante el cual el terminal inalámbrico debe comunicarse con la estación base a través de una sola cara de antena o un modo de funcionamiento de estado de par de sectores durante el cual el terminal inalámbrico debe comunicarse con la estación base en un modo de funcionamiento MIMO a través de un par de caras de antena y que además comprende antes de transmitir la información de pérdida de ruta correspondiente a dichas caras de antena primera y segunda a la estación base, realizar mediciones de potencia de señales de tono piloto y valores nulos de sector que comprenden realizar una primera medición de potencia de una primera señal recibida en un tono en la primera cara de antena mientras la segunda cara de antena no transmite en ese tono y realizar mediciones de segunda potencia de una segunda señal recibida en un segundo tono en la segunda cara de antena mientras la primera cara de antena no transmite en ese tono; en el que dicha información de pérdida de ruta es una función de dichas mediciones de potencia y en el que la información de pérdida de ruta correspondiente a la primera cara de antena y correspondiente a la información de pérdida de ruta a la segunda cara de antena se transmite en un informe único codificado conjuntamente.

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    公开(公告)号:BRPI0812066A2

    公开(公告)日:2014-11-25

    申请号:BRPI0812066

    申请日:2008-05-27

    Applicant: QUALCOMM INC

    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for improved utilization of air link resources are discussed in wireless communications systems employing multi-sector base stations and wireless terminals with multiple antennas. Timing synchronization is maintained across the base station sectors, and the same set of tones are used in adjacent sectors. In a sector boundary region, which is typically a high interference region, a wireless terminal is set to a sector pair state and operated in a MIMO mode of operation, communicating with two adjacent base station antenna faces of the same base station concurrently, the two different adjacent base station antenna faces corresponding to different adjacent sectors. Thus, typically high interference sector boundary regions, are converted into high capacity regions by having the sectors coordinated and utilizing MIMO techniques.

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    公开(公告)号:AT543367T

    公开(公告)日:2012-02-15

    申请号:AT09168938

    申请日:2006-12-20

    Applicant: QUALCOMM INC

    Abstract: Wireless terminals and base stations support multiple modes of dedicated control channel operation wherein wireless terminals are allocated different amounts of dedicated uplink resources for reporting control information. A set of dedicated control channel segments is utilized by a wireless terminal to communicate uplink control information reports to its serving base station attachment point. Full tone and split-tone modes of dedicated control channel operation are supported. In full tone mode, a single wireless terminal is allocated each of the dedicated control channel segments associated with a single logical tone. In split tone mode, dedicated control channel segments associated with a single logical tone are allocated between different wireless terminals, with each of the multiple wireless terminals receiving a different non-overlapping subset of the dedicated control channel segments. Logical dedicated control channel tones can be dynamically reallocated for full-tone mode use or split tone mode use.

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    公开(公告)号:AT531168T

    公开(公告)日:2011-11-15

    申请号:AT06847975

    申请日:2006-12-20

    Applicant: QUALCOMM INC

    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for routing messages between an end node and an access node via another access node are described. Physical layer identification information is used when identifying a remote, e.g., adjacent, access node as a message destination. Thus, when a connection identifier based on one or more physical layer identifiers is available to a wireless terminal, e.g., from one or more downlink signals received from a destination access node, the wireless terminal can use the connection identifier corresponding to the destination node to route a message via an access node with which it has an established uplink connection. Such connection identifier information can be used even when other addressing information, e.g., network layer address information, associated with the destination access node, may not be available to the wireless terminal.

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