Abstract:
A method for providing phase synchronization to non-phase synchronized cellular base stations The method comprising at least one phase synchronized cellular base station having at least one transmit antenna for transmitting a signal to a at least one non-phase synchronized cellular base station, where it comprises transmitting by said at least one transmit antenna of said phased-synchronized cellular base station a beacon signal to said at least one non-phase synchronized cellular base station, included as part of said transmitted signal, said beacon signal comprising two orthogonal length-8 Walsh- Hadamard sequences to be broadcasted by said at least one phase synchronized cellular base station in order to provide said phase synchronization.
Abstract:
A method and system for optimizing the performance of spatial multiplexing techniques in MU-MIMO wireless systems comprising subsectors where the presence of significant correlation between antenna elements can impair the performance of MU-MIMO techniques. The proposed solution ensures optimum selection of a specific combination of transmit antenna elements and receive antenna elements that maximizes MU-MIMO performance.
Abstract:
A method and device for optimal coexistence of a first cellular Time-Division Duplex, TDD, system and a second TDD system operating in the same frequency band. The proposed solution is capable of minimizing interferences without modifying the (RF and SW) characteristics of the second system, while at the same time achieving flexibility in UL:DL traffic ratio.
Abstract:
A method and radio network entity for scheduling resources comprising: selecting the user for which the scheduling metric calculated based on CQI reports is a main maximum in a certain frequency subband and checking whether there is another subband in which the selected user has a calculated scheduling metric value higher than the main maximum. If so, secondary maxima of scheduling metrics for said user and others in another different subband are searched and compared with the previous calculated maximum. According to the result of this comparison, each user is assigned to at least one frequency subband, up to K subbands which can be adjacent or not depending upon the configuration of the network entity in uplink and downlink (e.g., supporting LTE). Scheduling of both time and frequency resources is optimized and simultaneously the throughput of users in a cell is maximized.
Abstract:
A method and system for optimizing the performance of spatial multiplexing techniques in SU-MIMO wireless systems comprising subsectors where the presence of significant correlation between antenna elements can impair the performance of SU-MIMO techniques. The proposed solution ensures optimum selection of a specific combination of transmit antenna elements that maximizes SU-MIMO performance.
Abstract:
A Method and a System for lossless compression and decompression of baseband digital signals in distributed LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) radio access networks The method comprising at least one Remote Radio Head with a plurality of transmit and receive antennas connected to at least one Baseband Unit through a wired connection denoted as fronthaul link. In order to perform said lossless compression and decompression of a plurality of LTE-A baseband digital signals the method uses two additional processing nodes hosted at both ends of said fronthaul link in both an uplink direction and a downlink direction; transforms for both of said uplink and downlink directions said plurality of LTE-A baseband digital signals into frequency domain; and sends through said fronthaul link information corresponding to a set of resource blocks occupied with said plurality of LTE-A baseband digital signals. The system of the invention is adapted to implement the method of the invention.
Abstract:
The method comprising at least one user device provided with at least four antennas, wirelessly connected to a serving base station having between one and four transmit antennas and suffering interferences from at least one interfering base station having between one and four transmit antennas, establishing a data transmission link among a plurality of antennas, and: applying a time shift delay between said serving base station and said at least one interfering base station in order to avoid collision between Cell Reference Signals (CRS) of serving and interfering base stations when said data transmission is established; and introducing changes on the physical layer for PDSCH transmission and reception aimed at achieving inter-layer interference cancellation, said changes introduced comprising the introduction of a pattern of transmission gaps at symbols (l) and subcarrier indices (k) of interfering cell's CRS signals, which will be exploited by said at least one user device for effective interference cancellation.
Abstract:
The method comprising estimating, at least one wireless user device (UE) its own velocity from at least one downlink pilot signal being transmitted by any base station from a plurality of different base stations, and further comprising: - broadcasting each one of said plurality of different base stations a parameter relative to its own cell size; - performing said at least one wireless user device in idle mode cell selections and reselections based on said plurality of base station cell size parameters received and said at least one wireless user device estimated velocity; and - reporting, said at least one wireless user device in connected mode, said estimated velocity and cell sizes of neighboring base stations to a serving base station in order to perform handovers based on said reported estimated velocity and said neighboring base station cell sizes.
Abstract:
The method comprising at least one wireless user terminal (UE) connected through a wireless network to a serving base station and a plurality of network cells, each one comprising at least a base station and/or radio network controllers, each network cell broadcasting a cell load indicator. Where said at least one wireless user terminal performs following actions: • collecting said broadcasted cell load indicator of each one of said plurality of network cells; • providing to said wireless network, information about the actual cell load indicators of said plurality of cells, and • performing a network cell selection based on said broadcasted cell load indicators, • wherein said cell selection is performed without any exchange of cell load indicators between said plurality of network cells.
Abstract:
A method and a system for implementing a turbo-diversity scheme in wireless OFDM systems. The method comprising passing, a base station or a user terminal, information comprising data signals and encoding, a first and a second turbo encoders, said received data signals, generating two different turbo code blocks comprising a set of systematic and parity bits. Where, in order to enhance detection the two different turbo code blocks are simultaneously transmitted through a wireless OFDM system and wherein the data signals to be encoded by said second turbo encoder are interleaved prior encoding by an external bit interleaver. The system of the invention is arranged to implement the method of the invention.