Abstract:
Techniques for performing cell detection with successive detection and cancellation (SDC) are described. For SDC, pilots from stronger cells may be canceled from a received signal at a user equipment (UE) so that weaker cells may be detected as a result of reduced interference from the stronger cells. In one design, a UE processes a received signal to detect for a cell and determines whether the detected cell is sufficiently strong. If the cell is sufficiently strong, then the UE cancels the interference due to the detected cell from the received signal and further processes an interference-canceled signal to detect for another cell. The UE may detect for cells in a set of cells in a sequential order, from the strongest cell to the weakest cell. The UE may terminate detection when a cell not sufficiently strong is detected or when all cells in the set are detected.
Abstract:
In a wireless communication system, a scheduler (100) determines (306) a first set of modulation and coding schemes (MCSs), each of which produces a maximum data rate for a first user, in accordance with available resource constraints (304) of the wireless communication system. The scheduler then forms, for each MCS of the first set, a second set of MCSs that produces the maximum data rate for a second user in accordance with a first residual resource (314) that remains when applying that MCS to the first user, thereby producing (316) a group of second sets of MCSs. After producing the group of second sets, the scheduler selects (324), from the first set and for the first user, a first optimal MCS corresponding to one of the group of second sets that allows a highest maximum data rate for the second user.
Abstract:
A sub-Walsh element generator (30) partitions incoming Walsh codes into sub-elements (201-212). A sub-element generator (30) determines if a pair of Walsh sub-elements (201-212) exist at a boundary (401) between Walsh codes (101-102), and if so, the pair of sub-elements is output to a phase difference operator (40). The phase difference operator (40) determines a change in phase between the two consecutive sub-elements that exist at the Walsh code boundaries. The phase difference metric (45) is further accumulated over a predetermined period of time and is utilized to adjust a front-end frequency of a receiver.
Abstract:
Aspects describe a Highly Detectable Pilot that allows a mobile device to detect more base stations and, thus, can provide more accuracy in location estimate. A highly detectable pilot can be transmitted in one or more data symbols that are not currently being utilized for transmission of data. Transmission of the highly detectable pilot in two data symbols provide a receiver with more convergence time, however, it can take the receiver a longer amount of time to acquire an adequate number of pilots for a location estimate.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus of determining an encoding rate associated with a received signal (12), where the method including the steps of demodulating in a demodulator (80) to produce a series of metrics (22) representing energies of a series of data symbols carried by received signal (12); decoding in a decoder (20) series of metrics (22) to produce a set of total metrics (TM) (90) corresponding to a set of possible encoding rates; normalizing in a TM normalizer (28) set of TM (90) to produce a corresponding set of normalized TM (23); and determining the encoding rate in a rate determination (24) based on set of normalized TM (23). The normalizing step in TM normalizer (28) includes multiplying a set of effective finger counts (19) by a constant (410) to generate a corresponding set of numbers (420); and subtracting numbers (420) from associating TM (90) to produce normalized TM (23).
Abstract:
A block interleaver (212) suitable for communication over fading channels with convolutionally coded signals as input is disclosed. The block interleaver (212) implements multiple interleaving distances which are matched to the particular convolutional code to provide better performance than conventional block interleavers.
Abstract:
A method of determining a rate associated with a received signal including the steps of detecting the received signal (40); decoding the received signal at a first rate, determining a first path metric associated with the first rate, decoding the received signal at a second rate, and determining a second path metric associated with the second rate (44); calculating a plurality of discriminant functions based on the first and second path metrics (46); comparing at least one of the plurality of discriminant functions to a first predetermined value (48); and selecting one of the first and second rates as a determined rate based on the comparison.
Abstract:
Techniques for performing cell detection with interference cancellation are described. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may detect for pilots from cells in a wireless network using interference cancellation. The UE may process a received signal to detect for pilots from one or more cells. The pilots may be common pilots transmitted with a reuse factor of one or low reuse pilots transmitted with a reuse factor greater than one. The UE may estimate the interference from a detected cell (e.g., the strongest detected cell) and may cancel the estimated interference from the received signal. The UE may then process the interference-canceled signal to detect for pilots from additional cells. The UE may be able to detect pilots from more cells, e.g., from weaker cells, by canceling the interference due to the pilots from the detected cells. This may be desirable for various applications such as positioning.
Abstract:
Techniques for performing cell detection with interference cancellation are described. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may detect for pilots from cells in a wireless network using interference cancellation. The UE may process a received signal to detect for pilots from one or more cells. The pilots may be common pilots transmitted with a reuse factor of one or low reuse pilots transmitted with a reuse factor greater than one. The UE may estimate the interference from a detected cell (e.g., the strongest detected cell) and may cancel the estimated interference from the received signal. The UE may then process the interference-canceled signal to detect for pilots from additional cells. The UE may be able to detect pilots from more cells, e.g., from weaker cells, by canceling the interference due to the pilots from the detected cells. This may be desirable for various applications such as positioning.
Abstract:
A method (1700) and apparatus (1801) provide channel estimation with extended bandwidth filters. Antenna (1813) receives a signal such as a pilot signal and detects a bandwidth associated with the pilot signal in a detector (320). One of a plurality of filters (603, 605, 607, and 609) including extended bandwidth filters (311) and a default filter (305) can be selected by a selector (617). If the detector detects activity associated with a wider bandwidth, the filter associated with the wider bandwidth is selected over the presently selected filter. If no activity is detected, the default filter is selected.