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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate bandwidth-efficient non-coherent signaling for uplink control channel transmissions.SOLUTION: A complex orthogonal codeword set can comprise a first subset of codewords having a desirable cross-correlation property and one or more other subsets of codewords that can include expurgated codewords. The expurgated codewords can include discarded codewords and/or codeword pairs that produce a worst-case cross-correlation property. The codeword set and subsets are determined based at least in part on a predefined codeword criterion. A portion of the discarded codewords can be used for other purposes, such as erasure decoding, interference-level estimation, and/or multi-mode control channel operation.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide systems and methodologies that provide techniques for efficient cell search in a wireless communication system.SOLUTION: A frequency reuse pattern 510 is generated by applying frequency shifts to reference signals transmitted from cells that provide coverage for a Node B based on cell IDs or cell group IDs for the cells. The frequency shifts applied to the reference signals can then be utilized as a basis for multiplexing the reference signals from different cells using frequency division multiplexing (FDM) or a combination of FDM and other multiplexing techniques. Other adjustments to the reference signals transmitted from respective cells, such as transmit power adjustments, can further be made to improve detection performance.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide systems and methods that facilitate handing over mobile device communications in a wireless network from a source base station to a target base station without using a random access channel (RACH).SOLUTION: A mobile device 304 can monitor multiple base stations 302 to determine timing information related thereto and access scheduling request channels for the base stations. When ready for handover, the mobile device 304 can request data resources from a target base station 302 over the scheduling request channel using the appropriate timing information.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide technology for efficient paging of user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system.SOLUTION: A cell sends a paging indicator to UE, monitors for an acknowledgement from the UE, and sends a page message to the UE if an acknowledgement is received from the UE. The cell may receive channel quality information from the UE and may send the page message with link adaptation and/or HARQ to improve performance. In another aspect, a cell sends a paging indicator on a shared control channel to UE (612) and sends a page message on a shared data channel to the UE (614). The paging indicator and page message may be sent from multiple cells to the UE. Alternatively, the paging indicator may be sent from multiple cells to the UE, and the page message may be sent from a single cell to the UE.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce hardware changes in legacy single-carrier systems by implementing a multi-carrier point-to-multi-point CDMA system.SOLUTION: The number of common downlink channels, such as timing/synchronization and paging channels is reduced by designating an anchor carrier for transmitting these channels. Procedures for adding carriers and carrier acquisition are simplified through common carrier timing, signaling by the network to the user equipment (UE) of timing offsets and scrambling code selection, and other measures. Channel reuse is employed to minimize changes in asymmetric systems with different numbers of uplink and downlink carriers. The Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) field is divided into multiple subfields to enable transmission of multiple CQIs and ACK/NACK indicators on one uplink carrier.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for estimating a transmitted signal, in a wireless communication system. SOLUTION: A wireless signal is received that includes a pilot channel and at least one other channel. A transmitted signal is estimated using an equalizer and the received wireless signal. Taps of a filter of the equalizer are adapted through use of a channel estimate. The channel estimate is calculated from the pilot channel. The pilot channel and the at least one other channel are separated. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To transmit and receive data in an efficient manner to potentially improve capacity for a wireless network, and to achieve power savings for a wireless device. SOLUTION: A continuous packet connectivity (CPC) mode is utilized, which is comprised of multiple discontinuous transmission (DTX) modes and at least one discontinuous reception (DRX) mode. Each DTX mode is associated with different enabled uplink subframes usable for transmission from a wireless device to a network. Each DRX mode is associated with different enabled downlink subframes usable by the network for transmission to the wireless device. The wireless device may power down during non-enabled subframes so as to conserve battery power and quickly perform transitions between the DTX and the DRX modes. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide decision feedback equalization techniques to perform equalization in a manner to achieve good performance in a communication system. SOLUTION: A channel impulse response is estimated and converted to obtain a channel frequency response and a feed-forward filter response is derived on the basis of the channel frequency response and an initialized feedback correlation matrix. A feedback filter response is obtained similarly on the basis of the channel frequency response and the initialized feedback correlation matrix. On the basis of the feed-forward and feedback filter responses, equalization for an input symbol is executed, the equalized symbol is sliced for acquiring a chip estimate. If equalization is performed for multiple iterations, then, for each iteration, a reliability parameter may be updated, the feed-forward and feedback filter responses may be derived on the basis of the updated reliability parameter, and equalization may be performed with the filter responses for the iteration. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for facilitating frequency hopping for single carrier, frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) transmission.SOLUTION: User data transmitted within a transmission allocation unit can be frequency-shifted with respect to time-based slots of the allocation unit. Frequency hopping is accomplished while preserving single carrier constraints and a low peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). Further, various frequency-shifted mechanisms accomplish preservation of single carrier restraints. A scheduler selects among cyclic frequency shifting, transposed frequency shifting, and multiplexing of frequency-selective scheduled and frequency-hopped data based on an audit of scheduled data for the transmission allocation unit. The reduction in interference achieved through frequency hopping is combined with a low PAPR for various data allocation configurations.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide pilot transmission schemes suitable for use in wireless multi-carrier (e.g., OFDM) communication systems.SOLUTION: These pilot transmission schemes may utilize frequency orthogonality, time orthogonality, or both frequency and time orthogonality to achieve orthogonality among pilots transmitted by multiple base stations on a downlink. Frequency orthogonality is achieved by transmitting the pilots on disjoint sets of subbands. Time orthogonality is achieved by transmitting the pilots using multiple different orthogonal codes (e.g., Walsh codes). The pilots may also be scrambled with multiple different scrambling codes, which are used to randomize pilot interference and to enable identification of transmitters of these pilots.