Abstract: A common channel message transmitting device and method in a CDMA communication system. In accordance with the method of the present invention, a mobile station (MS) sends a common channel message with a request for designation of a channel for transmission of a consecutive common channel message, and a base station (BS) sends a response message indicating an available channel ID for use by the MS, when one is available. If a channel ID is available, the MS sends the next message on a channel designated with the assigned channel ID.

Abstract: A method for determining a gating rate in a base station for a CDMA communication system is disclosed. The method comprises transmitting information for assigning a dedicated control channel and a traffic channel to a mobile station, when a call is generated; after call setup, transmitting a message requesting mobile station's capability information to the mobile station; receiving the capability information including gating availability information of a reverse pilot signal and information about at least one gating rate, transmitted from the mobile station in reply to the request message; and determining a gating rate according to the capability information, transmitting information about the determined gating rate to the mobile station, and transitioning to an active sate. The mobile station's capability information includes information about gating availability and at least one gating rate, when gating is available.

Abstract: A method for performing a handoff when a mobile station receiving a transmission diversity signal travels from a first base station transmitting a signal in a transmission diversity mode of operation to a second base station transmitting a signal in the transmission diversity mode of operation. In the method, the mobile station communicates with the first base station in the transmission diversity mode of operation. Prior to performing handoff, the mobile station communicates with the first base station in a non-transmission diversity mode of operation. During the handoff, the mobile station communicates with the first and second base stations in the non-transmission diversity mode of operation. Upon completing the handoff, the mobile station communicates with the second base station in the non-transmission diversity mode of operation. After a predetermined time, the mobile station communicates with the second base station in the transmission diversity mode of operation.

Abstract: An STD (Selection Transmit Diversity) communication method. In the method, a base station selects a transmission antenna corresponding to an antenna selection signal received from a terminal, transmits a traffic channel signal through the selected antenna, and transmits a predetermined part of the traffic channel signal through an unselected antenna.

Abstract: A traffic channel transmission device for a CDMA communication system using a plurality of coding rates and orthogonal codes, determines a present channel condition and adaptively selects a coding rate and an orthogonal code according to the determination. In the device, a channel receiver receives a channel signal and a controller analyzes the received signal to decide an environment of a channel in service and generates a coding rate select signal and orthogonal code information according to the decision result. A channel transmitter includes a channel encoder for encoding transmission data at a coding rate selected according to the coding rate select signal and an orthogonal modulator for generating an orthogonal code according to the orthogonal code information to spread the encoded data with the generated orthogonal code, whereby the channel transmitter adaptively encodes and spreads the transmission data according to the channel environment.

Abstract: An access request message transmission device for a mobile station in a CDMA communication system employing RSMA in which a base station assigns a reverse common channel in response to an access request message from the mobile station, and the mobile station transmits a message to the base station over the assigned reverse common channel. The access request message transmission device includes a hash ID generator for generating a multi-bit hash ID for exclusively using the reverse common channel; a traffic information generator for generating multi-bit traffic information representing traffic information on the reverse common channel; and an access channel transmitter for generating the access request message using the hash ID and the traffic information, and transmitting the generated access request message to the base station over an access channel.

Abstract: A device and method for communicating a common channel message in a CDMA communication system. The device comprises a base station transmitter and a common channel transmitter. The base station transmitter includes a specific channel transmitter for outputting a channel signal at a second transmission power level for a predetermined time duration and otherwise outputting the channel signal at a first transmission power level. The common channel transmitter transmits a common channel message at an assigned slot duration. A power supply voltage is provided to the receiver of the mobile station for the predetermined time duration and the assigned slot duration to enable the receiver. The power supply voltage to the receiver is otherwise disengaged from the power supply so as to allow the receiver to operate in a sleep mode.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for calibrating a marking position in a chip scale marker are provided. The method includes: (a) placing a screen which is equivalent in shape to the wafer on a wafer holder for holding the wafer; (b) irradiating a laser beam at a predetermined target point on the screen, and measuring the position of the laser beam by a camera being moved above the target point; (c) transmitting the measured position information to a controller; (d) repeating steps (b) and (c) at a plurality of predetermined points; (e) comparing the transmitted position information with the target point; and (f) calibrating the position of the laser beam irradiated on the wafer by adjusting mirrors of the galvano scanner in the event that a deviation between the position information and the target point falls beyond a predetermined value.

Abstract: A power control device for a mobile communication system includes a base station transmitter and a mobile station receiver, wherein the base station transmitter includes: a plurality of PCB pattern generators for multiplying PCBs for a plurality of mobile stations by user patterns assigned to the respective mobile stations, to generate PCB patterns for the respective mobile stations, wherein the user patterns are orthogonal with one another; an adder for adding up the PCB patterns from the plural PCB pattern generators to generate a power control signal; and a transmitter for modulating the power control signal received from the adder and transmitting the modulated power control signal, wherein the mobile station receiver includes: a power control signal extractor for extracting the power control signal within a given interval of a reception signal received on a single code channel, wherein PCB patterns for a plurality of mobile stations are added to the power control signal; a PCB pattern generator for multi

Abstract: A base station device for a CDMA communication system includes a controller for changing a reference value for reverse closed loop power control in a control hold state, and a forward dedicated control channel transmitter for transmitting a power control bit for controlling transmission power of a reverse link according to the changed reference value.

Abstract: There is provided a channel estimation apparatus for estimating a radio channel environment by multiplying a currently received bit signal of a pilot signal and previously received bit signals by weights, and summing the weighted currently received bit signal and the weighted previously received bit signals in a CDMA mobile communication system receiving the pilot signal comprised of a stream of bits having given bit values, and a power control signal comprised of power control bits. In the channel estimation, a predictor predicts a next bit signal succeeding the currently received bit signal, multiplies the predicted next bit signal by a weight, and generates a weighted next bit signal. A summer sums the weighted next bit signal from the predictor, the weighted currently received bit signal and the previously received bit signals.

Abstract: A power control bit inserting method between a base station and a terminal. The base station and the terminal each use a plurality of adjacent frequency bands as signal paths with independent signal paths of a real part and an imaginary part given to each frequency. In the power control bit inserting method, a unit time is set to a power control group period, n-bit data is allocated to each signal path, the power control group period is divided by the number of signal paths, and a power control bit is inserted in each divided segment, so that the insertion positions in the real and imaginary parts of each frequency are spaced from each other by n/2 bit and the start position of the real signal path of each frequency is inserted at an appointed bit position of the corresponding frequency.

Abstract: A device and method are provided for limiting a power of a signal transmitted through any antenna to a maximum transmission power of the antenna in a TSTD (Time-Switched Transmission Diversity) transmitter of a base station of a mobile communication system. In a TSTD transmitter including at least two antennas and a pattern storage for storing a maximum transmission power limit value and switching patterns of a plurality of user data to be transmitted through the antennas, transmission powers assigned to antennas are measured upon receipt of new user data. A switching pattern is determined such that a value obtained by adding one of the transmission powers to a transmission power of the new user data does not exceed the maximum transmission power limit value.

Abstract: A sequential path searching method for demodulating a reverse channel in a mobile communication system is disclosed. In case that at least one mobile station maintains connection with a base transceiver station and the system searches an optimal path among multiple of paths which has a great receiving quality, the preferred embodiment of the present invention in a mobile telecommunication system supporting a variable data rate transmission, includes a step of searching multiple paths according to a sequential searching algorithm and avoiding deterioration of demodulation performance on variable data rate transmission.

Abstract: A common power control channel transmission device for a base station in a CDMA communication system is provided having a selector for receiving power control commands to be transmitted to multiple subscribers and multiplexing the received power control commands; and a spreading modulator for spreading an output of the selector by multiplying the output of the selector by a spreading sequence. The common power control channel transmission device can be used to control power of a reverse link common channel. For the power control of the reverse link common channel, the base station receives a signal from a mobile station via the reverse link common channel, and transmits to the mobile station a power control command for controlling a transmission power of the reverse link common channel according to a measured strength of the received signal.

Abstract: A method for controlling the transmission power of the reverse common channel for a mobile station in a CDMA communication system. In the method, the mobile station transmits a preamble signal at predetermined periods with increasing transmission power. Upon receipt of an acknowledge signal from a base station, the mobile station accesses the reverse common channel. In order to avoid multiple mobile stations from simultaneously generating increasingly powerful and interfering transmissions, the method generates two transmission power control signals: one based on the measured strength of a signal received from the base station and the other based on an accumulated value of power control commands transmitted by the base station. These two signals are accumulated and used to control the preamble signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a channel spreading device for a base station device in a CMDA communication system for spreading input symbols using a first quasi-orthogonal code having a first length or channel spreading the input symbols using a second quasi-orthogonal code having a second length which is a multiple of the first length. The device comprises a spreading code generator for generating the second quasi-orthogonal code; a channel spreader for providing a plurality of durations by dividing a duration of the second quasi-orthogonal code by said multiple of the length of the first quasi-orthogonal code, and spreading channel coded symbols with the quasi-orthogonal codes divided to have a length corresponding to the divided durations so as to spread the symbols identical in number to said multiple of the first quasi-orthogonal code duration at the duration of the second quasi-orthogonal; and a PN spreader for spreading the channel spread signal with a PN code.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for providing a packet data service between a terminal and a base station in a mobile communication system includes packet data being transmitted from the terminal (base station) on a reverse (forward) packet traffic channel to the base station (terminal) during a data transmission period; the occupation of the reverse (forward) packet traffic channel is released during a data transmission suspension period; and the base station controls the reverse (forward) packet traffic channel over a packet control channel.

Abstract: A code division multiple access (CDMA) mobile communication system for controlling power for a traffic signal of one frame includes: a signal generator for simultaneously generating a pilot signal and the traffic signal on a frame basis; a power compensator for compensating the power of the traffic signal according to a punctured length of a punctured frame among the frames; and a signal combiner for combining the power-compensated traffic signal and the pilot signal generated from the signal generator.

Abstract: A spreading code generating device for a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) communication system. The device comprises a PN (Pseudorandom Noise) code sequence generator for generating PNi and PNq sequences; an orthogonal code generator for generating first and second orthogonal codes which perform Differential Phase Shift Keying (DPSK) state transitions at intervals of at least two chips; and a spreading code generator for generating spreading codes Ci and Cq by mixing the PNi and PNq code sequences with the first and second orthogonal codes such that a present phase of the spreading codes Ci and Cq alternately makes Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) and DPSK state transitions with respect to a previous phase of the spreading codes Ci and Cq.