Abstract:
Disclose is a synchronized wireless communication network (100) operating in single frequency network mode comprising a first base station (502) broadcasting, on a first channel, broadcast data and a common sequence (508) that is generated from a first channel identifier, and wherein the first base station transmits data on a common control channel. A second base station (510), adjacent to the first base station and synchronized with the first base station, the second base station simultaneously broadcasting on the first channel the broadcast data and the common sequence, and wherein the second base station transmits data on a common control channel.
Abstract:
A wireless communication device (200) including a first CRC coder that generates a first block of CRC parity bits on a transport block and associates the first block of CRC parity bits with the transport block, a segmenting entity that segments the transport blocks into multiple code blocks after associating, and a second coder that generates a second block of CRC parity bits on each code block and associates a second block of CRC parity bits with each code block. The first and second blocks of CRC parity bits are based on first and second generator polynomials. In one embodiment, the first and second generator polynomials are different. In another embodiment, the generator polynomials are the same and the transport block is interleaved before segmenting or the code block are interleaved before encoding with the second block of CRC parity bits.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for receiving a message stream on a channel (140). A message (160) is received (320) on the channel. Information regarding the bits of a successfully decoded message is added (340) to a message attributes list (275) if the message is successfully decoded. An attempt is made to decode (330) a subsequent message based on the information in the message attributes list.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for handling a difference between a first and second message prior to decoding is disclosed The signaling scena&pgr;o illustrated by FIG 1 and using the codeword properties defined herein, the vanous embodiments may combine multiple messages under the hypothesis that the value of a message portion corresponding to any subsequent observed transmission is different Accordingly, a first set of observations (LLR's) (601 ) may be compared with a second or subsequent set of observations (603), and if the observations are found sufficiently similar, may be further compared in the context of a hypothesized difference (607) in constituent message information words Once any difference in information words is identified, the second or subsequent set of observations may be combined (611) with the first set of observations after suitable arithmetic processing, and prior to further decoding.
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:
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 wireless communication system that communicates (500) frames having first and second sub-frames (510, 520) with time-frequency resource elements. The first sub-frame including first reference symbol information and the second sub-frame including second reference symbol information, and not more than one of the first and second sub-frames including user specific radio resource assignment information. Wireless communication entities receiving the frames process the time-frequency elements of the first sub-frame using the first reference symbol information and processing the time-frequency elements of the second sub-frame using the second reference symbol information.
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.