Abstract: A method is described for fast coordinated transmissions in a multi-point system, which involves a UE receiving known pilot signals sent from a set of transmission antennas and determining, based on the known pilot signals from the set of transmission antennas, a recommended first subset of transmission antennas from which transmissions are not intended for the wireless communication device, and a recommended second subset of transmission antennas from which transmissions are intended for the wireless communication device. The UE also determines a recommended transmission power setting of each of the first subset of transmission antennas; sending information to the base station, wherein the information pertains to the recommended first and second subsets of transmission antennas and the recommended transmission power setting of each of the first subset of transmission antennas.

Abstract: A method, a network base station, and a user communication device for transmitting data on an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing carrier are disclosed. An antenna array may transmit a signal decodable by a legacy user communication device designed for compatibility with a legacy set of transmission antennas. A processor 210 may encode a subframe of the signal with a legacy set of common reference symbols and a supplemental set of common reference symbols referring to the antenna array.

Abstract: A wireless communication includes a base station that configures a set of non-zero power reference signals corresponding to multiple potential transmission points to one or more users equipment UEs and configures at least one zero-power reference signal, with zero transmission power from one or more of the multiple transmission points. The base station transmits configuration information to at least one UE of the one more UEs, wherein the configuration information corresponds to a set of resource elements that are associated with a set of channel state information reference signals and wherein the set of channel state information reference signals include the set of nonzero-power reference signals and the at least one zero-power reference signal. The UE then performs a channel measurement based on one or more non-zero-power reference signals of the set of non-zero-power reference signals and performs an interference measurement based on the at least one zero-power reference signal.

Abstract: A receiver with DFT based channel estimation having good noise suppression for both high and low signal-to-noise ratios providing advantages over conventional DFT estimators and Minimum-Mean-Square-Error (MMSE) estimators. The use of MMSE may be incorporated for estimation at the band edges providing further improvements. The received signal in the time domain, is transformed to the frequency-domain received signal via an N-point FFT (501). The frequency-domain received signal at the pilot locations is then used to obtain a “noisy” channel estimates at the pilot subcarriers by dividing the known pilot symbols in (503). Uniformly spaced pilots are assumed over a window of usable subcarriers. Padding is applied to the initial channel estimates at both sides of the band to account for unused subcarriers such as guard spacing. Weighting factors during power estimation may take into account various noise characteristics such as combinations of known and time-limited noise power characteristics.

Abstract: A method of signaling particular types of resource elements in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method can include, at a wireless terminal, receiving (610) a message providing information of a set of allocated resource elements carrying data intended for the wireless terminal. The method can include receiving (620) an indication corresponding to a resource element of a particular type within the set of allocated resource elements. The method can include decoding (630) resource elements that carry data intended for the wireless terminal based on the message providing information and based on the indication.

Abstract: A method in a wireless communication device includes receiving precoding matrix information including first and second precoding submatrices, transmitting a first transport block from a first set of at least two antennas according to the first precoding submatrix and a second transport block from a second set of at least two antennas according to the second precoding submatrix, receiving a retransmission request for the second transport block, and retransmitting the second transport block according to a retransmission precoding matrix from at least one of the first set of antennas and at least one of the second set of antennas.

Abstract: A method for link adaptation at a base station using metric feedback is disclosed. The method can include the steps of communicating with a mobile station over a communication link having one or more sub-channels and during the communication, receiving from the mobile station a plurality of mutual information per coded bit metrics for a plurality of candidate modulation types per coding layer. The mutual information per coded bit metrics can be based on channel state knowledge of the sub-channels. Also, based on the received information, the operational performance of the mobile station can be predicted in view of one or more transmission parameters and performance factors and one or more of the transmission parameters, including a modulation type selected from one of the plurality of candidate modulation types per coding layer, can be selected based on a transmission condition of the communication link.

Abstract: An orthogonal frequency division multiplexing wireless communication terminal, that communicates with a base unit, obtains a set of analog coefficients by transforming a transmit spatial covariance matrix, modulates the set of analog coefficients onto multiple channels to form a feedback waveform, and transmits the feedback waveform to the base unit.

Abstract: A method for two component feedback in wireless communication systems wherein a wireless communication device sends a first representation of a first matrix chosen from a first codebook, the first matrix is a N-by-N diagonal matrix with the k-th diagonal elements being ?1*exp(j?(k?1)m/N), for k from 1 to N/2 and being ?2*exp(j?(k?N/2?1)m/N) for k from N/2+1 to N, N is a number of antennas, m is an integer between 0 and N?1, and ?1, ?2 are complex valued scalars. The device also sends a second representation of a second N-by-R matrix chosen from a second codebook, with R being a number of spatial layers wherein the first and second representations together convey a precoder matrix as the matrix product of the first and second matrices.

Abstract: A method for channel quality feedback in a wireless communication device that receives precoding information of at least one potentially co-scheduled wireless communication device that is potentially assigned a time frequency resource that is also assigned to the wireless communication device. The wireless communication device determines a channel quality metric based on the received precoding information and an assumption that the wireless communication device and the at least one potentially co-scheduled wireless communication device are assigned the same time frequency resource, and then feeds back the channel quality metric.

Abstract: A method for two component feedback in wireless communication systems is disclosed, with a wireless communication device sending a first representation of a first matrix chosen from a first codebook, wherein the first matrix has at least two columns, the wireless communication device sending a second representation of a second matrix chosen from a second codebook, and the base station obtaining a precoder from the first representation and the second representation.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to resource allocation in multi-layer transmissions in transmissions of user data and control information. A wireless terminal allocates resources in a multi-layer transmission for one more types of control information based on scheduling information and control allocation parameters. The multi-layer transmission includes control information and one or more user data streams that are mapped to multiple transmission layers and transmitted by the wireless terminal.

Abstract: A method for configurable spatial channel information feedback in wireless communication systems is disclosed including receiving, at the wireless communication device, transmission from a plurality of antennas, receiving an indication of a feedback mode for feeding back spatial channel information that is based on correlations among at least some of the plurality of antennas, decomposing a correlation matrix representative of the correlations among at least some of the plurality of antennas into at least two Kronecker components, and feeding back parameters representative of the Kronecker components according to the feedback mode indicated.

Abstract: A technique for determining a received signal strength indicator of a target base station at a subscriber station includes performing a discrete Fourier transform on a received signal to provide a transformed signal. In this case, the transformed signal occupies one or more segments of a channel and the one or more segments each include multiple subcarriers. A shift-n cross-correlation is calculated based on the transformed signal and a preamble sequence of the target base station to provide a coarse received signal strength indicator for the target base station.

Abstract: A method of signaling particular types of resource elements in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method can include, at a wireless terminal, receiving (610) a message providing information of a set of allocated resource elements carrying data intended for the wireless terminal. The method can include receiving (620) an indication corresponding to a resource element of a particular type within the set of allocated resource elements. The method can include decoding (630) resource elements that carry data intended for the wireless terminal based on the message providing information and based on the indication.

Abstract: A wireless communication unit and method therein including generating a transmission waveform based on a mapping of at least one directly-modulated sequence to a set of radio resource elements, wherein the directly-modulated sequence is a product of at least one transmitted coefficient and a corresponding base sequence and the transmitted coefficient is based on a first channel corresponding to a first transmit antenna and a second channel corresponding to a second transmit antenna, and transmitting the transmission waveform from a transceiver of the wireless communication unit.

Abstract: A method, a network base station, and a user communication device for transmitting data on an orthogonal frequency-division multiple access carrier are disclosed. A network base station 106 may have a common antenna set 110 to transmit on a subcarrier via a first effective channel able to be constructed based on at least one common reference symbol. The network base station 106 may have a dedicated antenna set 112 to transmit on a subcarrier via a second effective channel able to be estimated based on at least one dedicated reference symbol. The user equipment device 102 may demodulate a data transmission using the at least one common reference symbol and the at least one dedicated reference symbol.

Abstract: A method, a network base station, and a user communication device for transmitting data on an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing carrier are disclosed. An antenna array may transmit a signal decodable by a legacy user communication device designed for compatibility with a legacy set of transmission antennas. A processor 210 may encode a subframe of the signal with a legacy set of common reference symbols and a supplemental set of common reference symbols referring to the antenna array.

Abstract: A method in an OFDM wireless user terminal that communicates with a base unit is disclosed. The method comprises computing a transmit spatial covariance matrix, transforming the spatial covariance matrix, and transmitting the transformed spatial covariance matrix to a base unit.

Abstract: A technique for determining a received signal strength indicator of a target base station at a subscriber station includes performing a discrete Fourier transform on a received signal to provide a transformed signal. In this case, the transformed signal occupies one or more segments of a channel and the one or more segments each include multiple subcarriers. A shift-n cross-correlation is calculated based on the transformed signal and a preamble sequence of the target base station to provide a coarse received signal strength indicator for the target base station.