Abstract: A method and system that enables the usage of sounding-based feedback or analog feedback in a MIMO communication system with non-beamformed or broadcast pilot symbols is disclosed. The mobile station may employ a feedback channel to send a sounding waveform to a base station, a feedforward channel to receive from the base station codebook weights derived from the send sounding waveform, a receiver to receive communication from the base station, and a processor to detect beamformed data from the received communication and received codebook weights from the base station. The base station processes the sounding waveform to determine codebook weights on groups of subcarriers. Additionally, the base station transmits the beamformed payload and broadcast pilots to the mobile station.

Abstract: A method for communicating control channel information in a wireless communication system, including transmitting a super-frame having a time-frequency resource region containing an allocation control channel and multiple pilot elements, at least some of which are associated with the allocation control channel, and indicating, in a configuration information control channel of the super-frame, a characteristic of the pilots elements associated with the allocation control channel.

Abstract: A system and method for uplink control signaling in a communication system includes a step of transmitting (200) the uplink control signaling in a frequency resource of the communication system reserved for random access. In particular, this step (200) can include allowing (202) the Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) to coexist with the Physical Random Access CHannel (PRACH) and transmitting (204) only channels which do not require Acknowledged/Negative Acknowledged (ACK/NACK) transmission.

Abstract: A method for blindly detecting a precoding matrix index used to transmit a data or control signal is provided. The method includes receiving at a mobile station (102) a common reference signal and user specific data and control signal weighted by precoding matrix. An objective function is applied to the received reference signal and user specific data and control signal that minimizes the objective function for each of at least one rank used to transmit the received user specific data and control signal and each of known possible modulation constellations used to transmit the received data/control signal to determine the precoding matrix index (PMI).

Abstract: In an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing communication system, wherein frequency bandwidth may be represented by multiple Resource Block Group (RBG) levels, wherein each RBG level comprises a division of the frequency bandwidth into a number of RBGs different from the number of RBGs of the other RBG levels, a user equipment measures a channel quality associated with one or more RBGs of one or more RBG levels of the multiple RBG levels, selects an RBG of from among the measured RBGs based on the measured channel qualities, and reports channel quality information associated with the selected RBG to a radio access network, wherein reporting comprises providing an index to the selected RBG and providing channel quality information for the indexed RBG.