Abstract: A method for performing precoding in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a parameter indicative of reception quality on a downlink channel from a base station to a user equipment (UE) served by the base station; comparing the parameter with a predetermined reception quality threshold; and based on the comparison result, selecting a precoding mechanism for use in communicating with the UE.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus and a method for canceling inter-modulation (IM) products in a transceiver. The apparatus includes: a pre-distortion circuit configured to estimate a first IM product caused by a transmission signal and pre-distort the transmission signal to cancel the first IM product; an IM product calculator configured to calculate a second IM product caused by the transmission signal in a received signal based on the first IM product; and a subtractor configured to subtract the second IM product from the received signal.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for a handover using dedicated random access resources have been provided. A method implemented in a target base station, BS, of a cellular radio system during a handover of a user equipment, UE, from a source BS to the target BS is provided. The method comprises: receiving a handover request from the source BS; allocating a dedicated random access channel, RACH, preamble and a RACH configuration associated with the dedicated RACH preamble, to the UE for accessing the target BS; and transmitting a handover response including information of the dedicated RACH preamble and the RACH configuration to the source BS. The dedicated RACH preamble is different from any RACH preamble preconfigured in the target BS at least in terms of a root sequence in the RACH configuration.

Abstract: A method executed in a first radio base station located in a first cell is provided for acquiring scheduling information associated with a second radio base station located in a neighboring cell, where the method comprises listening, via an air interface, to scheduling information transmitted, via a downlink control channel, from the second radio base station; decoding the received scheduling information, and providing the decoded scheduling information to an uplink receiver and/or uplink scheduler associated with the radio base station, such that the uplink receiver and/or uplink scheduler will be able to enhance its performance on the basis of the received scheduling information. An arrangement for executing the suggested method is also provided.

Abstract: The embodiments disclose a method for controlling Quality of Service for a wireless communication network shared among operators. The method comprises: receiving a message, which includes radio resource measurement of an operator; calculating a radio resource utilization amount of the operator based on the radio resource measurement; comparing the radio resource utilization amount with a set value; and sending a request to adjust the radio resource utilization amount of the operator according to the comparing result. The embodiments also disclose a Quality of Service controlling system thereof.

Abstract: A method (400) in a radio network node (220) of a wireless communication system (200) for selecting a MSG3 size for a User Equipment (UE) (230) that is performing handover from a serving network node (210) to a neighbour network node (220) is disclosed. The method (400) comprises receiving (S402) 5 measurement information related to the UE (230) from the serving network node (210). The method (400) comprises selecting (S404) the MSG3 size based on the measurement information. The method (400) further comprises transmitting (S406) the MSG3 size to the UE (230), based on which UE related information is transmitted to the neighbour network node (220).

Abstract: A node and an access node and methods therein for handling random access is disclosed. A method in a node for random access in a wireless network comprises, determining a set of sub-carrier shifts, wherein each sub-carrier shift indicates a shift with respect to a starting position in frequency domain for transmitting a random access preamble. The method further comprises selecting a sub-carrier shift from the set of sub-carrier shifts. The method further comprises transmitting a random access preamble to an access node, wherein the random access preamble is transmitted according to the selected sub-carrier shift.

Abstract: A method for performing precoding in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a parameter indicative of reception quality on a downlink channel from a base station to a user equipment (UE) served by the base station; comparing the parameter with a predetermined reception quality threshold; and based on the comparison result, selecting a precoding mechanism for use in communicating with the UE.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method in a base station of a radio network for antenna calibration of a first transceiver of the base station with respect to a second transceiver. The method comprises at least one of a first group and a second group of steps. The first group of steps comprises collecting a first group of amplitude and phase differences between a first calibration signal and each of a first and a fourth reception signals and between a second calibration signal and each of a second and a third reception signals. The first group of steps further comprises estimating, based on the first group of amplitude and phase differences, a signal response characteristic difference between a calibration reception chain of the first transceiver and a calibration reception chain of the second transceiver for reference antenna reception calibration of the first transceiver with respect to the second transceiver.

Abstract: The embodiments disclose a method and an Access Point (AP) for assigning a sounding resource in a Time Division Duplex (TDD) cellular network. The method obtains a channel information between a serving AP and a User Equipment (UE) served by the serving AP, determines whether to assign the sounding resource to the UE according to the predetermined assigning criteria based on the channel information, and makes the sounding resource assignment if it is determined to assign the sounding resource to the UE.

Abstract: There are disclosed a method, base station and computer-readable storage media for downlink power allocation in a wireless communication system. The method may comprise obtaining information on positions of user equipments in a cell; classifying the user equipments into cell-edge user equipments and non-cell-edge user equipments based on the obtained information on the positions of user equipments in the cell; and performing downlink power allocation by increasing power allocated to at least one of physical downlink control channels (PDCCH) for scheduled user equipments of the cell-edge user equipments and common reference signals with power borrowed from at least one of downlink common channels for scheduled user equipments of the non-cell-edge user equipments. With embodiments of the present disclosure, downlink transmit power can be allocated efficiently and thus cell downlink coverage may be increased at a low cost.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a method for transmitting a random access preamble in a transmitting sub-frame at a terminal device. The method comprises: creating a random access preamble such that it comprises a plurality of random access sequences; dividing the plurality of random access sequences into a number Nc of groups, each of groups including two or more random access sequences; performing code division multiplexing with respect to the groups of the plurality of random access sequences in a frequency domain, based on an orthogonal cover code selected for the terminal device from a pre-defined code set; and transforming signals after the code division multiplexing into the time domain. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there are provided corresponding methods and devices.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus and a method for canceling inter-modulation (IM) products in a transceiver. The apparatus includes: a pre-distortion circuit configured to estimate a first IM product caused by a transmission signal and pre-distort the transmission signal to cancel the first IM product; an IM product calculator configured to calculate a second IM product caused by the transmission signal in a received signal based on the first IM product; and a subtractor configured to subtract the second IM product from the received signal.

Abstract: The invention discloses an adaptive phase shift method in a multi-carrier system, comprising: generating a group of one or more new phase values for corresponding one or more phase shift carriers, PSCs, based on quantization phase values; calculating and comparing a backward maximum power in an evaluation path with the group of one or more new phase values in one timeslot and a forward maximum power in a working path with current phase values in the timeslot; and adjusting phase of the PSCs based on the group of one or more new phase values if the calculated backward maximum power is less than the calculated forward maximum power. An adaptive phase shift apparatus is also disclosed. With the invention, complexity of the implementation is reduced and a small DPS block resource, low Hardware cost, low power consumption is also achieved.

Abstract: A method and a radio network node (800) for enabling a switch between transmission modes for sending downlink signals to a User Equipment, UE. A switching unit (800a) selects a first transmission mode when downlink signal quality in the UE is above a switching threshold (Th), and selects a second transmission mode when the downlink signal quality is below the switching threshold. An obtaining unit (800c) obtains a first performance level when the first transmission mode is used and the downlink signal quality is within a specific vicinity range from the switching threshold, and obtains a second performance level when the second transmission mode is used and the downlink signal quality is within the specific vicinity range. An adjusting unit (800d) then adjusts the switching threshold (Th) based on a deviation between the first performance level and the second performance level.

Abstract: The embodiments disclosed relates to a method and a network node that estimates a signal power and/or noise power of a received reference signal. The receiving node may operate in a communications system applying frequency division multiplexing. An assumption is that the channel frequency responses, on adjacent subcarriers of the communications system are equivalent or constant. The method comprising receiving a reference signal comprising a first reference signal from a first wireless terminal and a second reference signal from a second wireless terminal By using this assumption it is possible to combine first and second reference signal in order to estimating the signal power and/or noise power of a received reference signal without a conventional channel estimation technique.

Abstract: The invention discloses a timing synchronization method in a User Equipment (UE) which is served in a first cell of a first synchronous communication network and also located in a second cell of a second synchronous communication network. The method comprises receiving a message from a communication node of the first network, the message including clock offsets of the first cell and the second cell or timing difference there between, and calculating downlink synchronization of the second cell from downlink synchronization of the first cell and the clock offsets/timing difference.

Abstract: There is provided a base station (BS) (1000) and a method at the BS that is capable of enhancing network capacity with low transmission power in a radio network. The method comprises serving a cell with one or more first carriers. The method further comprises serving a hot-spot within the cell with one or more beam-formed second carriers, wherein the first and second carriers share a total transmission power for serving the cell. Beam-forming based hot-spot carriers can efficiently save transmission power and contribute to the total power utilization efficiency. The base station (1000) thus can meet the capacity enhancement requirement with low transmission power.

Abstract: The invention relates to Coordinated Scheduling for a Time Division Duplex (TDD) network. In a method for User Equipment (UE) scheduling by a base station in a TDD network, the base station receives scheduling decision from at least one neighboring cell of the base station, and schedules a UE among a plurality of UEs in the serving cell of the base station based on the scheduling decision from the at least one neighboring cell and based on smart antenna information. The inter-cell interference is suppressed and therefore the network performance is improved.

Abstract: A method and a base station for phase compensation in beamforming in a multi-antenna Time Division Duplex (TDD) communication network. In a first transmission mode, the base station estimates a first phase shift between a first antenna port and a reference antenna port in uplink based on a measurement of a first Sounding Reference Signal (SRS). Then the base station estimates in the first transmission mode a second phase shift between the first antenna port and the reference antenna port in downlink based on a Channel State Information (CSI) feedback from a User Equipment (UE), and calculates a parameter indicative of a difference between the first phase shift and the second phase shift.