Abstract: Embodiments provide apparatuses, methods, and computer programs for a receiver and a transmitter of a wireless system. An apparatus (10) for a receiver (100) of a wireless communication system comprises means for receiving (12) radio signals, which are organized in repetitive radio frames, a radio frame being subdivided in sub-frames. The apparatus (10) further comprises means for extracting (14) a first payload data packet from the received radio signals using a single sub-frame of the received radio signals and for extracting a second payload data packet using two or more sub-frames of two or more radio frames. An apparatus (20) for a transmitter (200) comprises means for obtaining (22) information on a subset of radio resources for scheduled and/or non-scheduled transmission.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for multi-antenna signal processing at an antenna element arrangement belonging to a transceiver of a radio communication network, the antenna element arrangement comprising antenna elements (211, 221, 231, 241) in horizontal and in vertical direction, wherein complex antenna weights are applied to said antenna elements.

Abstract: Embodiments provide apparatuses, methods and a computer programs for a base station transceiver and a mobile transceiver. An apparatus (10) operable in a base station transceiver (100) of a mobile communication system comprises a transceiver module (12), which comprises interfaces to a plurality (18) of antennas, and which is operable to transmit radio signals using combinations of time and frequency radio resources. The transceiver module (12) is further operable to form a first set of beam patterns (16) using the plurality of antennas. The first set of beam patterns (16) comprises two or more spatially differing beam patterns. The base station transceiver apparatus(10) comprises a control module (14), which is operable to control the transceiver module and to transmit a common control signal for a plurality of mobile transceivers (200) using the beam patterns of the set of first beam patterns (16) on the same time and frequency radio resource.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method (MET-T) for transmitting channel feedback information in a wireless communication system. The method (MET-T) contains the steps of determining (M1/5) a first reception quality value (CQI 1) for a first radio channel from a first transmission point (2a) of the radio communication system to an apparatus (4), determining (M1/7) based on the first reception quality value (CQI 1) a preferred use of the first radio channel (6a), and transmitting (M1/8) towards the first transmission point (2a) the first reception quality value (CQI 1) and the first reception quality value (CQI 1) simultaneously indicates the preferred use. The invention further relates to an apparatus for transmitting channel feedback information in the wireless communication system and to a method (MET-R) and apparatus (8) for receiving the channel feedback information in the wireless communication system.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for scheduling users in a mobile or wireless radio communication system comprising a base station with a multiple antenna system and at least two users, said base station communicating with users using precoding weights at said multiple antenna system, an indication on precoding weights to be used for communication with a first user being sent by said first user on a feedback channel to said base station.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to a receiver (310) for receiving a multicarrier signal. The multicarrier signal comprises a first frequency block with a first group of subcarriers, the first frequency block being filtered with a first frequency block specific sideband suppression filter (106-1) for sideband suppression outside of said first frequency block, and at least a second frequency block with at least a second group of subcarriers, the second frequency block being filtered with a second frequency block specific sideband suppression filter (106-2) for sideband suppression outside of said second frequency block. The receiver (310) comprises a filter module (320) operable to perform an inverse sideband suppression filter operation for the first and at least the second frequency block. The Application proposes a new so-called Universal Filtered Multi-Carrier or UFMC system which can be interpreted as a generalization of FBMC and filtered OFDM.

Abstract: A base station and a user equipment device and a method for sending data from the user equipment device to the base station is proposed. The method for transmitting data comprises the steps of determining disadvantageous transmission conditions for the user equipment device and if such disadvantageous transmission conditions are determined, transmitting data in a reserved frame.

Abstract: The embodiments of the invention relate to a transmitter apparatus (TA1) for conditioning a multicarrier signal (RFS). The transmitter apparatus (TA1) contains means (FE-PU) for grouping subcarriers of the multicarrier signal (RFS) into a first frequency block, which contains a first group of the subcarriers and into at least a second frequency block, which contains at least a second group of said subcarriers. The transmitter apparatus (TA1) further contains first filtering means (LPF-1) for sideband suppression outside of the first frequency block and at least second filtering means (LPF-2, LPF-M) for simultaneous and separate sideband suppression outside of the at least second frequency block. The embodiments of the invention further relate to a method for conditioning a multicarrier signal (RFS).

Abstract: The invention provides a method for communicating in a wireless communication network (206), the wireless communication network comprising a plurality of base stations (102; 104) and at least one mobile communication unit (100), the mobile communication unit comprising a transceiver component (300), a first Doppler compensation component (108), and a measurement component (110), wherein the first Doppler compensation component is adapted to compensate the Doppler shift of signals (1; 2; 7; 11; 12; 13) being exchanged between a base station of the plurality of base stations and the transceiver component. A handover procedure between two base stations is possible for fast moving user equipments.

Abstract: A method for performing communications in a wireless communication network includes receiving mobility information about at least one moving mobile station in a mobility server of the wireless communications network, using the mobility information from the mobility server for calculating antenna weights to be applied to antenna elements of an antenna array for steering a beam generated by the antenna array to the moving mobile station preferably using space-division multiple access, SDMA. Embodiments also relate to a base station, to a mobile station, and to a wireless communication network.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for feeding back channel state information is disclosed. The method is for providing channel state information for a wireless communications channel provided between a first network node having at least one transmission antenna and a second network node having at least one reception antenna. The method comprises the steps of: determining characteristics of each tap resolvable in the time domain of at least one sub-channel within said channel from signals received by said at least one reception antenna over said channel from said at least one transmission antenna; arranging said characteristics into at least one vector; quantizing said at least one vector by selecting one of a plurality of codebook vectors at a first level of a hierarchical codebook of vectors; and providing, to said first network node, an indication of an index to said one of a plurality of codebook vectors.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for providing channel state information, CSI, about a radio channel (4) established between a first network element (2) and a second network element (3), the method comprising: providing an estimate (hn) of a channel coefficient (hn,a) of the radio channel (4) based on at least one signal, in particular a pilot signal (7), transmitted over the radio channel (4) from the first network element (2) to the second network element (3), making a prediction (I) of the channel coefficient (hn,a) of the radio channel (4) based on previous estimates (hn,k), and feeding back information about an error (en) between the prediction (I) and the estimate (hn) of the channel coefficient (hn,a) from the second network element (3) to the first network element (2). The invention also relates to network elements (2, 3) for implementing the method, as well as to a wireless communication network (1) comprising the same.

Abstract: The embodiments of the invention relate to a method and a transmitter apparatus for generating and transmitting channel feedback.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for joint processing of uplink data (g(n), s(n)) transmitted from at least one user equipment (UE1, UE2) to a plurality of coordinated reception points (BSA, BSB) of a wireless communication system (1), the method comprising: estimating and preferably compensating for individual propagation delays of the uplink data (g(n), s(n)) transmitted from one of the user equipments (UE1, UE2) to the coordinated reception points (BSA, BSB), and compensating a timing difference between a propagation delay of a coordinated reception point (BSA, BSB) which serves the user equipment (UE1, UE2) and at least one propagation delay of at least one coordinated reception point (BSB, BSA) which does not serve the user equipment (UE1, UE2) for performing the joint processing of the uplink data (g(n), s(n)), wherein the step of compensating the timing difference comprises modifying a channel matrix (H) associated with uplink channels from the at least one user equipment (UE1, UE2) to the coordinated

Abstract: An apparatus and method for detecting an implicit user ID of a received data packet is disclosed. When a data packet is received, at least one frequency on which the data packet has been received is determined. Further, a spreading code sequence of the data packet is determined, and the at least one determined frequency and the determined spreading code sequence are used to determine an implicit user ID of the data packet.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a method and a transmitter element (35) for transmitting channel information (CI) for link adaptation of a radio channel (33) in a wireless network (11). In order to allow for reliable and efficient transfer of the channel information (CI) and to adapt the detection probability to the importance of the CI as well as to the channel stability, it is suggested that the method comprises encoding (19) the channel information (CI) using multi-level coding, said multi-level coding (19) comprising combining multiple bit sequences (c1, c2, . . . , cn, d), each bit sequence (c1, c2, . . . , cn, d) corresponding to a coding level (1, . . . , n) of said multilevel coding (19) and assigning (37) one of said coding levels (1, . . . , n) to at least a part (ci1, ci2) of the channel information (CI) such that at least a part (ci1, ci2) of the channel information (CI) corresponds to the bit sequence (c1, c2, . . . , cn) of that coding level (1, . . . , n).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for joint processing of uplink data (g(n), s(n)) transmitted from at least one user equipment (UE1, UE2) to a plurality of coordinated reception points (BSA, BSB) of a wireless communication system (1), the method comprising: estimating and preferably compensating for individual propagation delays of the uplink data (g(n), s(n)) transmitted from one of the user equipments (UE1, UE2) to the coordinated reception points (BSA, BSB), and compensating a timing difference between a propagation delay of a coordinated reception point (BSA, BSB) which serves the user equipment (UE1, UE2) and at least one propagation delay of at least one coordinated reception point (BSB, BSA) which does not serve the user equipment (UE1, UE2) for performing the joint processing of the uplink data (g(n), s(n)), wherein the step of compensating the timing difference comprises modifying a channel matrix (H) associated with uplink channels from the at least one user equipment (UE1, UE2) to the coordinated

Abstract: Embodiments provide apparatuses, methods, and computer programs for a receiver and a transmitter of a wireless system. An apparatus (10) for a receiver (100) of a wireless communication system comprises means for receiving (12) radio signals, which are organized in repetitive radio frames, a radio frame being subdivided in sub-frames. The apparatus (10) further comprises means for extracting (14) a first payload data packet from the received radio signals using a single sub-frame of the received radio signals and for extracting a second payload data packet using two or more sub-frames of two or more radio frames. An apparatus (20) for a transmitter (200) comprises means for obtaining (22) information on a subset of radio resources for scheduled and/or non-scheduled transmission.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method (MET-T) for transmitting channel feedback information in a wireless communication system. The method (MET-T) contains the steps of determining (M1/5) a first reception quality value (CQI 1) for a first radio channel from a first transmission point (2a) of the radio communication system to an apparatus (4), determining (M1/7) based on the first reception quality value (CQI 1) a preferred use of the first radio channel (6a), and transmitting (M1/8) towards the first transmission point (2a) the first reception quality value (CQI 1) and the first reception quality value (CQI 1) simultaneously indicates the preferred use. The invention further relates to an apparatus for transmitting channel feedback information in the wireless communication system and to a method (MET-R) and apparatus (8) for receiving the channel feedback information in the wireless communication system.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a network entity (14) for increasing traffic security for use in a wireless communication network (21), comprising a receiving unit (15) adapted to receive via the wireless communication network (21) information from a first mobile communication device (1), a processing unit (16) adapted to process the information received from the first mobile communication device (1) for detecting an endangered traffic situation, and a transmission unit (17) adapted to transmit an alerting message via the wireless communication network (21) to at least one second mobile communication device (2) in vicinity of the first mobile communication device (1) upon detection of an endangered traffic situation.