Abstract: A cooperative relay method and system in a multi-hop relay network are provided. The method may include receiving, at a first time slot, resource allocation information from a base station, and identifying a first hop Mobile Station (MS) data zone, receiving, at the first time slot, first hop MS data in the identified first hop MS data zone, and storing the received first hop MS data, and receiving, at a second time slot, second hop MS data from a relay station, and combining the first hop MS data with the second hop MS data. The resource allocation information may be an MS MAP indicating a first hop MS data zone, a simultaneous assignment MS MAP indicating both a first hop MS data zone and a second hop MS data zone, or a relay MAP indicating a first hop MS data zone.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for transmitting an uplink signal by a mobile station in a mobile communication system using an OFDMA scheme. The method includes estimating a downlink channel status by using a signal received from a base station; determining a precoding matrix by using the estimated downlink channel status; and transmitting a signal obtained by multiplying an uplink signal to be transmitted by the precoding matrix to the base station.

Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless communication system for providing a service in a time division duplexing (TDD) mode and a frequency division duplexing (FDD) mode according to a duplexing mode determination factor of a mobile station in a base station communicating with the mobile station. During call setup, the mobile station transmits the duplexing mode determination factor to the base station, sets a TDD mode or an FDD mode as a reverse mode set by the base station, and sets up a channel for the set reverse mode and a forward channel to perform communication. During call setup, the base station receives the duplexing mode determination factor from the mobile station, sets a reverse mode to the TDD mode or the FDD mode using the received duplexing mode determination factor, and sets up a reverse channel for the set mode and a TDD mode for forward transmission to communicate with the mobile station.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for interference control in a wireless communication system with a hierarchical cell layout are provided. The method includes acquiring edge-bands of femto BSs within an area of the macro BS, determining whether an MS receiving a service from the macro BS is located in an area adjacent to the femto BS, and, if the MS is located in the area adjacent to the femto BS, allocating, to the MS, an edge-band of the femto BS to which the MS is adjacent.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving a signal in a communication system with a plurality of antennas are provided. Received modulation symbols of channel coded transmission information data are generated using a space-time mapping scheme and processed to RF symbols. The RF symbols are transmitted through antennas among the plurality of antennas.

Abstract: A Base Station (BS) includes an apparatus and method for transmitting cell information. The BS is in the a communication system of a small cell size in a wireless communication environment in which a communication system of a large cell size and the communication system of the small cell size are hierarchically constructed in the same area. The method includes confirming reference signal transmission information for transmitting a reference signal including its own cell information, if a reference signal transmission interval arrives according to the reference signal transmission information, transmitting the reference signal through an operation frequency of a macro BS of the large cell size including the BS itself, and, if it is not the reference signal transmission interval, providing service through its own operation frequency or operating in a power saving mode.

Abstract: A Mobile Station (MS) is operable to select a precoding matrix in a multi-antenna wireless communication system. The method includes receiving, from a serving Base Station (BS), information on a precoding matrix of which use is prohibited and a precoding matrix to be used by a neighbor BS, estimating an interference signal for the precoding matrix to be used by the neighbor BS, and selecting a precoding matrix to be used by the serving BS by considering the estimated interference signal from the remaining precoding matrixes except for the precoding matrix of which use is prohibited among precoding matrixes used by the serving BS.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for communication of a Mobile Station (MS) of a shadow area in a mobile communication system are provided. The method includes determining whether an Emergency Ad-hoc Relay (EAR) amble is received and transmitting a help signal when the EAR amble is not received.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for transiting an operation mode of a femto base station in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes, in a sleep mode, confirming whether operation transition request information is received from at least one terminal; and when receiving the operation transition request information from the terminal, entering an active mode. Thus, the power consumption of the femto base station can be reduced and the interference caused by the operation of the femto base station can be mitigated.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for reducing pilot overhead in a multi-antenna system are provided. The method generates postcodes and pre-codes for streams used to transmit signals to at least two receivers. The method allocates a pilot signal to at least one of the streams, and allocates an additional pilot signal shared by at least one of the streams. The method precodes the pilot signal allocated to at least one of the streams, the additional pilot signal, and data to be transmitted to each of the receivers, based on the pre-code for each of the streams, prior to transmission.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for operating a hierarchical cell in a wireless communication system are provided. A femto BS transitions into a sleep mode if there is no accessed MS for a predefined time. The femto BS transmits a FEMTO-ADV message in the sleep mode to notify of the presence of the femto BS. The femto BS releases the sleep mode upon receiving a MOB-FEMTO-AWAKE-REQ message from an MS receiving the FEMTO-ADV message. Thereafter, the femto BS communicates with the MS.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for automatically controlling interference in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. In the method, a BS receives an interference measurement information signal of one or more adjacent BSs. The BS analyzes the interference measurement information signal of the one or more adjacent BSs to obtain information about the average power for each frequency band used by each of the one or more adjacent BSs. The BS uses the obtained information about the average power for each frequency band of the one or more adjacent BSs to determine the average power for each frequency band to be used by the BS. The BS generates an interference measurement information signal of the BS according to the determined average power for each frequency band.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for transmitting an uplink data during handoff. A method for transmitting uplink data in a soft handoff system, in which a mobile station is simultaneously connected with at least two base transceiver systems under a control of a base station controller, includes selecting one of the base transceiver systems as a main base transceiver system, transmitting uplink signals to the main base transceiver system and sub-base transceiver systems, and transmitting by the sub-base transceiver systems received uplink signals to the main base transceiver system. Through the method, a main BTS for diversity combining and decoding soft bit strings is established among BTSs connected to a mobile station, so that it is possible to distribute a data processing amount centralized on a BSC to a BTS.

Abstract: In an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) mobile communication system, an apparatus and method allocates resources for data transmission and transmits/receives user data using the allocated resources. A full subcarrier band allocable for one cell is divided into a plurality of subcarrier regions. Subcarriers selected from subcarriers existing in one of the plurality of subcarrier regions are allocated for each of a plurality of sectors constituting the cell. The subcarriers are allocated such that subcarriers existing in different subcarrier regions are allocated for neighboring sectors in the cell.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for call setup in a wireless communication system are provided. A first Mobile Station (MS) determines a DownLink (DL) duration, performs synchronization, selects one preamble code among a preamble code set reserved for the call setup of the MS out of the cell area, and transmits the selected preamble code during the determined DL duration. A second MS scans a preamble code during the DL duration, determines if the scanned preamble code is a preamble code for the call setup of the MS out of the cell area, and transmits a response message to the preamble code to the first MS.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for beamforming in a multi-antenna system are provided. The method includes assuming at least one codeword comprised in a codebook as a precoding weight of a reference receive end and generating post-processing weights of at least two receive ends, confirming a codeword maximizing a sum rate using the post-processing weights, generating preceding weights of the receive ends using the codeword maximizing the sum rate, and precoding a transmit signal using the generated precoding weights and transmitting the precoded transmit signal to each receive end.

Abstract: A Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) single carrier wireless communication system is provided. The system includes a coder for performing block coding on symbols, an extender for collecting the block-coded symbols during one transmit (Tx) signal duration and for performing repetitive extension on the collected symbol vectors by an interval required in a frequency domain, an inserter for inserting ‘0’ to the repetitively extended symbol vectors so that the vectors are mutually orthogonal in a time domain, and a combiner for multiplying the ‘0’-inserted symbol vectors by a phase component so that the vectors are mutually orthogonal in the frequency domain and thereafter for combining the symbol vectors to generate a Tx signal for each antenna.

Abstract: Frame structures, a method and an apparatus for resource allocation in a wireless communication system based on a full duplex relay are provided. The method for a centralized resource allocation in the wireless communication system based on the full duplex relay includes receiving channel information from a plurality of mobile stations (MSs) and relay stations (RSs); scheduling radio resources for a link between a base station (BS) and the MS and a link between the BS and the RS using the channel quality; constituting a first radio resource region for the link between the BS and the RS and a second radio resource region for the link between the BS and the MS; and scheduling radio resource for a link between the RS and the MS by reusing the first radio resource region. The relay link resource is reused in the full-duplex relay structure, and the system capacity can be raised by minimizing the interference in the resource utilization.

Abstract: Disclosed is a space-time coding apparatus and method to flexibly adjust diversity/multiplexing orders in a multiple-antenna system. The transmitting apparatus for the multiple-antenna system includes a space-time code controller, an encoder, a demultiplexer, and a space-time encoder. The space-time code controller generates space-time codes by determining bases according to a multiplexing order required by a receiver. The encoder modulates and encodes data destined for the receiver in accordance with a predetermined modulation level. The demultiplexer demultiplexes data received from the encoder in order to transmit the data through at least one antenna. The space-time encoder space-time-codes the demultiplexed data using the space-time codes.

Abstract: A mobile communication system includes M transmission antennas, P encoders for receiving P information bit streams and encoding the received information bit streams with a space-time trellis code (STTC), and M modulators for modulating information bit streams output from the P encoders in a predetermined modulation scheme and outputting modulation symbol streams. A sequence used for channel estimation is generated, and the sequence is transmitted in substitute for at least one modulation symbol in a predetermined position through the M transmission antennas, for each of the modulation symbol streams output from the M modulators.