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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide apparatuses and methods for infrastructure-assisted discovery in a wireless peer-to-peer network.SOLUTION: Various discovery procedures may be implemented where a first node supports discovery of other nodes for a second node. An apparatus for wireless communication includes a processing system configured to, in specifying for a remote node other remote nodes available to communicate therewith via ad-hoc wireless connections, support wireless connection discovery for the remote node by utilizing a wireless topology that can be dynamically self-configured to provide support to the remote node. The support includes splitting, with the remote node, responsibility for either transmission of a discovery signal or reception of a discovery signal.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide interference mitigation techniques which are not susceptible to hidden and exposed nodes.SOLUTION: Interference management may involve the transmission of interference management messages by wireless nodes that are experiencing interference and appropriate responses by potential interferers that receive the interference management messages. Upon detection of interfering signals, a wireless node may determine whether the signals are from a synchronous interferer or an asynchronous interferer and use different types of signals to manage the different types of interference. In some aspects, asynchronous interference management may involve backing-off in frequency and/or in time in response to interference signals. Asynchronous interference management may involve transmitting back-off beacons to clear potential interference from a given carrier. The transmission of beacons by a wireless node may be metered to facilitate fair sharing of communication resources.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method that enables management of wireless communications in a heterogeneous wireless access point (AP) environment.SOLUTION: System data of an over-the-air message can be configured to include information identifying a distinct type of transmitting base station. In some aspects, the information can include an access type of the base station and/or a sector ID for distinguishing the base station among large numbers of other base stations. According to other aspects, system data transmitted on the wireless signal can include wireless channel resources designated for a particular type of base station, or blanked by the transmitting base station, to facilitate interference reduction on such resources.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate management of wireless communications in a large-scale heterogeneous wireless access point (AP) environment.SOLUTION: A preamble of a wireless signal (or, e.g., other data of the wireless signal where suitable) can be transmitted with low resource re-use (or low re-use), referred to as a low re-use preamble (or low re-use data transmission). By way of example, system data of an over-the-air message can be configured to include information identifying a distinct type of transmitting base station. In some aspects, the information can include an access type of the base station and/or a sector ID for distinguishing the base station among large numbers of other base stations. According to other aspects, the information can include wireless channel resources designated for a particular type of base station, or blanked by the transmitting base station, to facilitate interference reduction on such resources.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and method for supporting wireless downlink and uplink connections.SOLUTION: In a downlink direction, an apparatus receives from a downlink node a request to communicate using an allocation of radio resources specified by the downlink node, and transmits to the downlink node a grant to communicate using at least a portion of the specified allocation of radio resources. In an uplink direction, the apparatus sends a request to the downlink node to communicate using a specified allocation of radio resources, and receives from the downlink node a grant to communicate using at least a portion of the specified allocation of radio resources.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate management of wireless communications in a heterogeneous wireless access point (AP) environment.SOLUTION: System data of an over-the-air message can be configured to include information identifying a distinct type of transmitting base station. In some aspects, the information can include an access type of the base station and/or a sector ID for distinguishing the base station among large numbers of other base stations. According to other aspects, system data transmitted on the wireless signal can include wireless channel resources designated for a particular type of base station, or blanked by the transmitting base station, to facilitate interference reduction on such resources. By employing aspects of wireless communication management, efficient and reliable communication can be affected in large heterogeneous AP networks.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of enabling management of wireless communications in a heterogeneous wireless access point (AP) environment.SOLUTION: System data of an over-the-air message can be configured to include information identifying a distinct type of transmitting base station. In some aspects, the information can include an access type of the base station and/or a sector ID for distinguishing the base station among large numbers of other base stations. According to other aspects, the information can include wireless channel resources designated for a particular type of base station, or blanked by the transmitting base station, to enable interference reduction on such resources. By employing the aspects of wireless communication management, efficient and reliable communication can be affected in large heterogeneous AP networks.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide systems and methods that facilitate providing high reuse for transmitting reference signals, such as positioning reference signals (PRS) and cell-specific reference signals (CRS), to improve audibility thereof for applications such as trilateration and/or the like.SOLUTION: PRSs can be transmitted in designated or selected positioning subframes. Resource elements within the positioning subframe can be selected for transmitting the PRSs and can avoid conflict with designated control regions, resource elements used for transmitting cell-specific reference signals, and/or the like. Resource elements for transmitting PRSs can be selected according to a planned or pseudo-random reuse scheme. In addition, a transmit diversity scheme can be applied to the PRSs to minimize impact of introducing the PRSs to legacy devices. Moreover, portions of a subframe not designated for PRS transmission can be utilized for user plane data transmission.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate management of wireless communications in a heterogeneous wireless access point (AP) environment.SOLUTION: System data of an over-the-air message can be configured to include information identifying a distinct type of transmitting base station. In some aspects, the information can include an access type of the base station and/or a sector ID for distinguishing the base station among large numbers of other base stations. According to other aspects, the information can include wireless channel resources designated for a particular type of base station, or blanked by the transmitting base station, to facilitate interference reduction on such resources. By employing aspects of wireless communication management, efficient and reliable communication can be affected in large heterogeneous AP networks.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To employ various traffic management techniques in a multi-hop wireless communication system.SOLUTION: A decision to transmit data to another node may be based on whether that node is able to effectively transmit data of the node (1104). A decision to transmit an interference management message may be based on the amount of data a parent node may transmit. A decision to transmit an interference management message may be based on how effectively data is being transmitted (1106). A weight may be assigned to an interference management message on the basis of a traffic scheduling policy (1110).