Abstract: In accordance with the exemplary embodiments of the invention, there is described herein at least a method, executable computer program, and apparatus to form a resource allocation for a particular bandwidth, including defining at least one search space for a first bandwidth region used by a first user equipment and for a second bandwidth region used by a second user equipment, each search space including control channel elements, where there are first control channel elements in the first bandwidth region and second control channel elements in the second bandwidth region, and transmitting information descriptive of the resource allocation to the first user equipment and the second user equipment.

Abstract: Precoding information is provided (implicitly or explicitly) to a particular user equipment UE. Closed-loop spatial coding for a control channel is selected for the particular user equipment, and at least one control channel element CCE is determined within the particular user equipment's search space of the control channel that is associated with the provided precoding information. The determined at least one CCE is spatially encoded using the provided precoding information to schedule radio resources for the particular user equipment. The UE determines a search space for a control channel, and from received radio resource control signaling determines at least one CCE within the search space that is to be encoded with closed-loop spatial coding. The UE decodes the determined at least one CCE within the search space using a closed-loop spatial decoding with precoding information associated with the at least one CCE to find radio resources scheduled for the particular UE.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for initialization and mapping of reference signals in a communication system. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a processor and memory including computer program code. The memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to generate a reference signal employable with a plurality of physical resource blocks corresponding to a bandwidth of a communication system, and allocate resource elements of an assigned physical resource block from the plurality of physical resource blocks to a user equipment. The memory and the computer program code are further configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to generate a dedicated reference signal for the user equipment by allocating elements of the reference signal in accordance with allocated resource elements of the assigned physical resource block.

Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method is disclosed that comprises receiving a reference signal from each of at least two target neighbor cells via at least one receiving branch at a user equipment; estimating a timing range based at least on one of a timing advance for a serving cell and an inter-cell distance between the target neighbor cell and the serving cell; computing a reference signal time difference for the received reference signal from the target neighbor cell; and screening the computed reference signal time difference using the estimated timing range.

Abstract: A system and method by which individual user equipment items can be informed about subframes re-used or exceptionally used for unicast transmission. In various embodiments, a dedicated indication is transmitted to each item of user equipment. This indication may comprise, for example, a dedicated message transmitted to those user equipment items that will get additional unicast downlink allocations in the re-used subframes. In other embodiments, common broadcast signaling is used to indicate subframe re-use to all items of user equipment. This signaling may be transmitted on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) or on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) as a common broadcast message.

Abstract: A system and method for providing efficient control transmission for single frequency network-based broadcasting and/or multicasting. Various parameters that are needed to decode local single frequency network transmissions are signaled in a channel that is separate from the overlay single frequency network control channel. In various embodiments, this channel is transmitted at the level of a local single frequency network or at an individual cell level. This allows this channel to provide, at any given geographical location, the parameters that are used in the transmission of the particular local single frequency networks in that location.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method, apparatus and system are provided for determining a transmission window for transmission bursts of broadcast service. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a link-terminating element configured to receive a multimedia broadcast and multimedia multicast service message from a network control element. The apparatus also includes a processor configured to define a burst transmission window for the multimedia broadcast and multimedia multicast service message. The apparatus also includes a transceiver configured to transmit the multimedia broadcast and multimedia multicast service message within the burst transmission window.