Multiple Access (e.g., Fdma) Patents (Class 370/344)
  • Patent number: 8570918
    Abstract: A method for processing a frequency division multiplexing signal transmitted in a channel is provided. The method includes the steps of a) receiving the frequency division multiplexing signal having a residual intercarrier interference (ICI) and a channel noise and transmitted by plural subcarriers; b) performing a cyclic prefix removal and a discrete Fourier transform for the frequency division multiplexing signal to obtain a frequency-domain signal; c) analyzing the frequency-domain signal to obtain a plurality of correlation values for the residual ICI and the channel noise; and d) performing a communication signal processing for the frequency division multiplexing signal based on at least one of the plural correlation values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: National Chiao Tung University
    Inventors: Hai-wei Wang, David W. Lin, Tzu-Hsien Sang
  • Patent number: 8570982
    Abstract: Multiple-In Multiple-Out (MIMO) techniques are used to increase spectral efficiency of a cellular single frequency network. In some embodiments with single transmit antenna per cell, multiple data streams are transmitted from multiple cells, one data stream per set of transmit antennae. The mapping of streams to antenna sets is permuted in time. In this way, user equipment devices (UEs) at cell edges benefit from MIMO, and UEs near cell centers benefit from high carrier-to-interference (C/I) ratio of the signal. In some embodiments, each stream is concurrently transmitted on base layer of a hierarchically modulated signal from one set, and on enhancement layer of a hierarchically modulated signal from another set. The mapping of sets to streams is permuted in time. The UEs at cell edges benefit from MIMO, and the UEs near cell centers benefit from the high C/I to decode both streams from the base and enhancement layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventor: Durga Prasad Malladi
  • Patent number: 8571122
    Abstract: A signal reception apparatus comprises a receiver configured to receive a symbol block within a symbol period of a wireless communication network and a control information demodulator/decoder configured for demultiplexing control information and data information from the received symbol block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Joon-Young Cho, Ju-Ho Lee, Hwan-Joon Kwon, Yun-Ok Cho
  • Patent number: 8570966
    Abstract: Provided is a base station comprising a multiplexer so constituted as to frequency-divide/multiplex a first channel for transmitting first data to be transmitted to a plurality of mobile stations, and a second channel for transmitting second data to be transmitted to one mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Akihito Morimoto, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Nobuhiko Miki, Motohiro Tanno, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8571000
    Abstract: Techniques for sending a transmission in a manner to reduce peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of the transmission are described. A transmitter may select phases for a plurality of resource blocks based on a metric, e.g., PAPR. The transmitter may apply the selected phases to modulation symbols to be sent on the resource blocks. In one design, the transmitter may select one phase for each resource block and may apply the phase to all modulation symbols to be sent on the resource block. In another design, the transmitter may select multiple phases for multiple spatial layers in each resource block, one phase for each spatial layer. The transmitter may then apply each phase to all modulation symbols to be sent on one spatial layer in one resource block. For both designs, the transmitter may generate at least one OFDM symbol or at least one SC-FDMA symbol based on the modulation symbols after applying the selected phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Ravi Palanki, Juan Montojo, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 8565147
    Abstract: A frequency block allocation apparatus based on a single carrier frequency division multiple access method includes an allocation index computation target selector that selects frequency block groups, each consisting of one or more continuous non-allocated frequency blocks from a set of non-allocated frequency blocks; an allocation index computation unit that computes an allocation index for each target pair of each frequency block group and a terminal; and a frequency block allocation unit that determines one of the target pairs to be a frequency block allocation target, in accordance with priority based on the computed allocation indexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: KDDI Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiko Komine, Takeo Ohseki, Satoshi Konishi
  • Patent number: 8565161
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for transmitting data in cellular network, wherein frequency reuse is proposed to be designed adaptive and utilized only only when needed, e.g., with small coding rates. The adaptive reuse can be obtained by using the conventional link adaptation approach. The invention can be easily applied to a Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) system which consists of combination of localized and distributed FDMA. Thereby, better resistance against strong other cell interference can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Kari Pajukoski, Esa Tiirola
  • Patent number: 8565211
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, an apparatus for data transmission is provided. The apparatus includes a data processing unit generating a data symbol by performing channel coding and constellation mapping on an information bit, a single carrier-frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) modulator generating an SC-FDMA symbol by performing discrete Fourier transform (DFT) on the data symbol, by mapping the DFT performed-data symbol to subcarriers, and by performing inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) on the subcarrier mapped-DFT performed-data symbol, and a plurality of transmit antennas transmitting the SC-FDMA symbol. A single carrier-frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system can effectively use frequency switched transmit diversity (FSTD) to reduce a peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) and to maintain a single-carrier property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyun Soo Ko, Seung Hee Han, Jae Hoon Chung, Bin Chul Ihm, Moon Il Lee
  • Patent number: 8565212
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for accessing a contention-based uplink random access channel (RACH) in a single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) randomly selects a RACH subchannel and a signature among a plurality of available RACH subchannels and signatures. The WTRU transmits a preamble using the selected signature via the selected RACH subchannel at a predetermined or computed transmission power. A base station monitors the RACH to detect the preamble and sends an acquisition indicator (AI) to the WTRU when a signature is detected on the RACH. When receiving a positive acknowledgement, the WTRU sends a message part to the base station. If receiving a negative acknowledgement or no response, the WTRU retransmits the preamble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Guodong Zhang, Kyle Jung-Lin Pan, Yingming Tsai
  • Patent number: 8565144
    Abstract: Disclosed are a scheduling method and apparatus for a relay-based network. The scheduling apparatus may assign a plurality of sub channels to links, with respect to each of a first sub frame and a second sub frame included in s downlink sub frame. The scheduling apparatus may perform scheduling in cases where nodes operated as transmitters and as receivers in the first sub frame and the second sub frame may diversely exist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Doo Kim, Mohamed Rashad Salem, Abdulkareem Adinoyi, Halim Yanikomeroglu, David Falconer
  • Patent number: 8565061
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for establishing multiple connections between a wireless device and multiple base stations and transferring data using these connections via different segments of an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) frame are provided. The multiple connections may be used for multi-way (e.g., three-way) concurrent processing, multi-way (e.g., three-way) handover, or a hybrid between concurrent processing and multi-way handover in an effort to increase data throughput for the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tom Chin, Kuo-Chun Lee
  • Patent number: 8559398
    Abstract: A method and system for a cellular telecommunication system is provided. A transmission signal, which includes reference symbols and synchronization symbols, is received from the network node of at least one cell. At least one pre-coding vector is determined for the transmission signal, where one pre-coding vector is associated with transmission by at least one transmit antenna of the network node of the at least one cell. For each of the at least one pre-coding vectors, a channel estimate is estimated for all sub-carriers of the received transmission signal from the received reference symbols and a reference symbol channel model defined for reference symbols of the transmission signal and from the synchronization symbols, the at least one pre-coding vector, and a synchronization symbol channel model defined for synchronization symbols of the transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PUBL)
    Inventors: Bengt Lindoff, Bo Lincoln, Tobias Rydén
  • Patent number: 8559297
    Abstract: A user apparatus to which radio access schemes of a single-carrier scheme and a multicarrier scheme are applied includes: a radio access scheme setting unit configured to set a radio access scheme; a discrete Fourier transform unit configured to perform discrete Fourier transform on a modulated symbol sequence when the radio access scheme is the single-carrier scheme; a serial parallel conversion unit configured to perform serial parallel conversion on the modulated symbol sequence when the radio access scheme is the multicarrier scheme; a frequency domain signal generation unit configured to assign radio resources to the modulated symbol sequence on which discrete Fourier transform has been performed or to the demodulated symbol sequence on which serial parallel conversion has been performed so as to generate a signal in the frequency domain; a waveform shaping filter configured to perform waveform shaping on the signal in the frequency domain; a transmission signal generation unit configured to perform inve
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Teruo Kawamura, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8559362
    Abstract: A method of coordinating resources for repetition of random access bursts performed by a mobile terminal, the method comprising: determining groups of access slots based on parameters from a network, wherein each access slot is defined by any combination of frequency, time and code, and the access slots are organized according to a frequency pattern; transmitting an access burst on an access slot from a chosen group of access slots; and re-transmitting the access burst on the next access slot from the chosen group of access slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Dragan Vujcic, Patrick Fischer
  • Patent number: 8559374
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for data communication through a Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission in a multiple cell environment. According to the present invention, the data communication method through a coordinated multi-point transmission in a multiple cell environment including a serving base station and a cooperative base station for performing a coordinated multi-point transmission comprises the steps of: receiving data from the serving base station and the cooperative base station through a downlink channel; and demodulating the received data. Each datum transmitted from the serving base station and the cooperative base station includes a predetermined Reference Signal and a data Resource Element, and a Transmit Diversity is applied to the data resource elements of both the serving base station and the cooperative base station through Pairing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Ja-Ho Koo, Yeong-Hyeon Kwon, Jae-Hoon Chung, Bin-Chul Ihm, Hyun-Soo Ko
  • Patent number: 8553670
    Abstract: A radio communication device performing radio communication using OFDMA system includes: a SMI weight deriving unit (14) calculating a correlation matrix and a correlation vector using a plurality of received signal vectors as sample values, and deriving a SMI weight based on the calculated correlation matrix and correlation vector; and a weight multiplying unit (15) for multiplying the received signal vector by the SMI weight derived by the SMI weight deriving unit (14). The SMI weight deriving unit (14) uses a received signal vector of each of a plurality of subcarriers included in a user allocated region in the OFDMA system as a sample value, and thereby derives the SMI weight for the user allocated region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsuru Hirakawa
  • Patent number: 8554242
    Abstract: A method is provided for altering a channel bandwidth in a wireless system, wherein the method comprises sending to a wireless device a report request message comprising an indicator of an ability to change the channel bandwidth from a first channel bandwidth to a second channel bandwidth, receiving at an access node a report response message from the wireless device, wherein the report response message comprises a channel condition for the wireless device, and changing the channel bandwidth from the first channel bandwidth to the second channel bandwidth based upon the channel condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Clearwire IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Don Gunasekara, Sunil Prasad
  • Patent number: 8553671
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting uplink control information (UCI), performed by a user equipment, in a wireless communication system are provided. The method comprising: generating encoded information bits by performing channel coding on information bits of the UCI; generating a modulation symbol sequence by modulating the encoded information bits; generating a spread sequence by block-wise spreading on the modulation symbol sequences with an orthogonal sequence; and transmitting the spread sequence to a base station through an uplink control channel, wherein the information bits of the UCI comprises a first UCI bit sequence and a second UCI information bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Min Gyu Kim, Suck Chel Yang, Joon Kui Ahn, Dong Youn Seo
  • Patent number: 8553585
    Abstract: A Mobile Subscriber Station (MSS) and an active Base Station (BS) for measuring/reporting a channel quality in a broadband wireless access communication system. The MSS includes a receiver for receiving, from an active BS, channel quality measurement information for the MSS to measure channel qualities of the active BS and a plurality of neighbor BSs, and channel quality report information defining a report mode for the MSS to report measured channel qualities of the active BS and the plurality of neighbor BSs, a processor for measuring the channel qualities of the active BS and the plurality of neighbor BSs according to the channel quality measurement information, and a transmitter for reporting the measured channel qualities of the active BS and the plurality of neighbor BSs to the active BS according to the channel quality report information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: So-Hyun Kim, Chang-Hoi Koo, Jung-Je Son, Yeong-Moon Son
  • Patent number: 8553799
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for obtaining a precoding matrix indicator is disclosed, which relates to the field of communication technologies. The method includes: obtaining a first rotation matrix according to first channel information; obtaining a first differential matrix according to the first rotation matrix and a currently-obtained instantaneous beam forming matrix/precoding matrix; and quantizing, according to a first differential codebook, a pre-acquired first rank indicator, and preset quantization criteria, the first differential matrix to obtain a differential precoding matrix indicator. The apparatus includes: a first rotation matrix obtaining module, a first differential matrix obtaining module, and a differential precoding matrix indicator obtaining module. The differential PMI is obtained according to the channel information, and the differential PMI is used for feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianguo Wang, Yongxing Zhou
  • Patent number: 8547927
    Abstract: A method for a user equipment to perform random access to a base station in a wireless communication system that supports multiple uplink and downlink carriers is provided. In the method, system information including cell identifier information of each of the downlink component carriers and PRACH TF slot and preamble sequence information which is common to all downlink component carriers, the system information being broadcast through each downlink component carrier corresponding to the cell identifier information, is received. A PRACH preamble is transmitted through one uplink component carrier linked to the downlink component carriers using the received PRACH TF slot and preamble sequence information. An RACH response is received through each of the downlink component carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Dong Youn Seo, Jung Hoon Lee, Ki Jun Kim, Joon Kui Ahn
  • Patent number: 8547822
    Abstract: A new frame structure applicable to the IEEE 802.16 OFDMA wireless waveform is described, for the purposes of increasing base station capacity, increasing subscriber link rates and extending base station range. The frame structure provides the necessary constructs so that advance signal processing technologies such as Stacked Carrier Spread Spectrum and adaptive antenna technology may be used in combination with these constructs in order to realize these gains. These concepts are equally applicable in other advanced wireless waveforms based on OFDM or OFDMA such as LTE or UMB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale A. Branlund, Matthew C. Bromberg
  • Patent number: 8547896
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method in which a relay node transmits/receives signals via a specific downlink subframe and a specific uplink subframe. The relay node may consider the propagation delay in accordance with the distance between a base station and the relay node to set a subframe timing for transmitting/receiving signals to/from the base station. The relay node may further consider the delay time of 0.5 symbol, 1 symbol or the like in addition to said propagation delay in the event of setting a downlink receiving timing. Setting an uplink subframe timing of the relay node can be divided into the event the timing is set on the basis of a backhaul link and the event the timing is set on the basis of an access link. In the event the timing is set on the basis of the access link, the propagation delay can be double that of the event the timing is set on the basis of the backhaul link, which should be considered in setting the timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyu Jin Park, Jae Hoon Chung, Han Gyu Cho, Yeong Hyeon Kwon, Min Seok Noh, Moon Il Lee, Sung Ho Moon
  • Patent number: 8543070
    Abstract: Techniques for transmitting data using channel information for a subset of all subcarriers used for data transmission are described. A transmitter station receives channel information for at least one subcarrier that is a subset of multiple subcarriers used for data transmission. The channel information may include at least one transmit steering matrix, at least one set of eigenvectors, at least one channel response matrix, at least one channel covariance matrix, an unsteered pilot, or a steered pilot for the at least one subcarrier. The transmitter station obtains at least one transmit steering matrix for the at least one subcarrier from the channel information and determines a transmit steering matrix for each of the multiple subcarriers. The transmitter station performs transmit steering or beam-steering for each of the multiple subcarriers with the transmit steering matrix for that subcarrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Steven J. Howard, John W. Ketchum, Mark S. Wallace, Jay Rodney Walton
  • Patent number: 8543136
    Abstract: A terminal receives a unique sequence from each of at least two base stations, and transmits a mixture of quantized unique sequences to a serving base station. The serving base station extracts components respectively corresponding to base stations from the mixture of the quantized unique sequences, and estimates a location of a terminal based on the extracted components. The serving base station may calculate a received signal strength or a delay for each of the unique sequences received by the terminal, based on the extracted components, and estimate the location of the terminal based on the received signal strength or the delay. In addition, the terminal may estimate its own location by performing an algorithm used by the serving base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Bu Lim, Kyung Hun Jang
  • Patent number: 8537801
    Abstract: A wireless OFDMA telecommunications system comprising a transmitter adapted to transmit, by means of an OFDM modulator, a plurality of data packets destined for receivers of a plurality of users, via the same plurality of transmission channels, the transmission channel of a user being associated with a group of sub-carriers of the OFDM multiplex and a set of OFDM symbol times of a transmission interval, each receiver being adapted to signal to the transmitter the loss of a packet transmitted over the transmission channel of the corresponding user, said transmitter further comprising a packet scheduler adapted to control retransmission of each packet lost by means of said modulator. Each receiver comprises detection means of an outage situation of the transmission channel of the corresponding user and signals this to said transmitter by means of an outage information (OUTAGE/NOUTAGE).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Commissariar a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Emilio Calvanese Strinati, Dimitri Ktenas
  • Patent number: 8532082
    Abstract: A method and system for wireless frequency division multiple access communications in the uplink and/or downlink directions. A first time duration for transmission of a data payload block is established, and the transmission is processed using a first frequency domain or a time domain. A second time duration for transmission of at least one pilot block is established, and the transmission is processed using a second frequency domain or the time domain, the second time duration is not greater than the first time duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Jianglei Ma, Ming Jia, Wen Tong, Peiying Zhu, Hua Xu, Moussa Abdi, Evelyne Lestrat, Sarah Boumendil
  • Patent number: 8526413
    Abstract: A method of concatenating precoder selection is provided for OFDMA-based multi-BS multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). A cell-edge mobile station first determines a precoding matrix indexes (PMIs) for a serving base station and one or more cooperative base stations to optimize system performance. The mobile station then determines a plurality of corresponding weight factors for each of the base stations to further optimize system performance. The mobile station recommends the selected PMIs and weight factors to the serving base station, which shares the PMIs and weight factors with the cooperative base stations. Each base station then applies precoding using the recommended PMIs and weight factors. The weight factors are quantized to reduce computation complexity and to facilitate information feedback. In one embodiment, the weight factors are determined based on a pre-defined 3-bit uniform phase quantization rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Mediatek Inc.
    Inventors: Chih-Yuan Lin, Pei-Kai Liao
  • Patent number: 8526414
    Abstract: A method of mapping symbols of a physical control format indicator channel (PCFICH) is described. A start position of a resource element to map the symbols for the PCFICH is determined by flooring a value, obtained by multiplying the number of resource blocks by a variable proportional to a symbol index for the PCFICH and then dividing the multiplied result by 2, wherein the resource blocks are transmitted in downlink. The symbols are mapped in the start position. Therefore, a problem of wasting resource elements or not being able to implement mapping can be solved by applying a simple mapping rule while mapping symbols of the PCFICH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jung Hoon Lee, Joon Kui Ahn
  • Patent number: 8526319
    Abstract: Techniques for determining channel quality indicators (CQIs) for a non-linear detector at a user equipment (UE) are described. In one design, the UE may determine at least one parameter (e.g., at least one threshold) based on at least one constellation constrained capacity function. Each threshold may correspond to a maximum number of information bits for one stream when a particular modulation order is used for another stream. The UE may determine CQIs for multiple streams for the non-linear detector based on the at least one parameter. The UE may also select a precoding matrix (e.g., jointly with the CQIs) based on the at least one parameter. The UE may report the selected precoding matrix and the CQIs for the multiple streams. The UE may thereafter receive a transmission of the multiple streams, which may be transmitted based on the selected precoding matrix and the CQIs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Su, Jia Tang, Atul A. Salvekar, Lei Xiao, Gokhan Mergen, Jonathan Sidi
  • Patent number: 8526512
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus that converts a transmission digital signal to a high-frequency analog signal and transmits the high-frequency analog signal using a plurality of transmission frequencies, the transmitting apparatus including: a dividing unit that divides a transmission signal sequence into a plurality of blocks; a sub-block generating unit that applies pre-coding processing to the blocks and further divides the blocks after the pre-coding processing into sub-blocks; a frequency allocating unit that generates a frequency signal in which the sub-blocks are allocated to the transmission frequencies; and an inverse DFT processing unit that transforms the frequency signal into a time signal, wherein the transmitting apparatus sets the time signal as the transmission digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masatsugu Higashinaka, Tomoya Yamaoka
  • Patent number: 8526934
    Abstract: A system that facilitates inter-operable communications between first responder (FR) wireless communications devices at an emergency location. The system includes an on-site tactical communications plan that is configured into a communications control device. The communications control device is part of an emergency command vehicle. First responders utilize their associated FR devices to establish a wireless IP data session with the communications control device via a macro wireless network. Once the IP data session is established, the FR device is authenticated by the communications control device. The tactical plan is then transmitted to the FR device via the established wireless IP data sessions. Once the tactical plan is transmitted to the FR devices, each of the FR devices comprises identical radio configurations and channel assignments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: DeWayne Allan Sennett, Brian Kevin Daly
  • Patent number: 8526296
    Abstract: A signal separation device includes a column switching unit switching a column vector of a channel matrix obtained by estimating a propagation path characteristic so that a transmitted signal component of each transmit antenna is in a left end, a QR decomposition layering unit multiplying received signals by an output from the column switching unit, and outputting a received signal vector in which the received signal is layered so that a transmitted signal exists in a first row, an interference cancellation unit cancelling an interference component from a signal in the first row by using a signal other than the signal in the first row, a signal candidate point selecting unit selecting a prescribed number of signal candidate points from among signals output by the interference cancellation unit, and a signal separation unit separating the transmitted signal from the layered received signal vector using the selected signal candidate point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Ozaki
  • Patent number: 8526412
    Abstract: Techniques for multiplexing multiple data streams using frequency division multiplexing (FDM) in an OFDM system are described. M disjoint “interlaces” are formed with U usable subbands. Each interlace is a different set of S subbands, where U=M·S. The subbands for each interlace are interlaced with the subbands for each of the other M?1 interlaces. M slots may be defined for each symbol period and assigned slot indices 1 through M. The slot indices may be mapped to interlaces such that (1) frequency diversity is achieved for each slot index and (2) the interlaces used for pilot transmission have varying distances to the interlaces used for each slot index, which improves channel estimation performance. Each data stream may be processed as data packets of a fixed size, and different numbers of slots may be used for each data packet depending on the coding and modulation scheme used for the data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Rajiv Vijayan, Gordon Kent Walker, Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi, Murali R. Chari
  • Patent number: 8520494
    Abstract: A radio communication system is provided. An uplink transmission method of a user equipment in a radio communication system includes performing Fourier transform on one or more data sequences to generate one or more first frequency-domain sequences, applying precoding for multi-antenna transmission to the one or more first frequency-domain sequences to generate one or more second frequency-domain sequences; performing inverse Fourier transform on the one or more second frequency-domain sequences to generate one or more transmission symbols, and transmitting the one or more transmission symbols via multiple antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Suck Chel Yang, Joon Kui Ahn, Dong Youn Seo, Dae Won Lee, Yu Jin Noh, Bong Hoe Kim, Jung Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 8520492
    Abstract: The method for transmitting an uplink SRS by an LTE UE comprising steps of: the UE receiving information N indicating SRS transmission; generating an SRS sequence by the UE; and the UE transmitting the SRS in two OFDM symbol in a half-frame or frame if the information N indicates that a period of SRS transmission is 2 ms. With present invention, a format of SRS in LTE FDD and LTE TDD will be the same. Meanwhile, a problem of supporting 2 ms period in the LTE TDD system is solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yingyang Li, Xiaoqiang Li
  • Patent number: 8520655
    Abstract: One object of the present invention is to effectively utilize adaptive modulation and improve stability of wireless communication, without departing from standards, by independently controlling MCSs of retransmission data and usual data and using MCS suitable for each data. In the wireless communication system of the present invention, a frame, in which an error occurs, in both a transmitting device and a receiving device and the error part are specified, and MCS used in the frame is specified. Therefore, it is possible to modulate/demodulate the error part based on desired MCS without loading MCS on HARQ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Toru Sahara
  • Patent number: 8520656
    Abstract: A method for the partitioning frequency resources used in the transmission of control signals and data signals by user equipments in a communication system. The control signals and data signals are for periodic transmission and dynamic transmission. Also provided is an apparatus and method for user equipments to determine the first frequency unit available for the transmission of dynamic control signals, such as acknowledgement signals associated respective reception of data signals configured through a scheduling assignment by a serving Node B. The utilization of the operating bandwidth is maximized by avoiding fragmentation and facilitates the achievement of reception reliability targets particularly for control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Aris Papasakellariou, Joon-Young Cho
  • Patent number: 8520762
    Abstract: Methods and systems for optimizing the utilities of receiver devices in a wireless communication network are disclosed. Precoder design formulations that maximize a minimum worst-case rate or a worst-case sum rate are described for both full base station, cooperation and limited base station cooperation scenarios. In addition, optimal equalizers are also selected to optimize the worst-case sum rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
    Inventors: Ali Tajer, Narayan Prasad, Xiaodong Wang, Sampath Rangarajan
  • Patent number: 8520606
    Abstract: A system and method for synchronous spectrum sharing for use in a wireless communication system based on orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) or orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) signaling is disclosed. The system includes a frame detector configured to detect a frame of a broadcast waveform and extract idle spectrum information for the frame to the secondary user node. The system allows transmitting data from the secondary user node in unused symbol slots identified in the idle spectrum information thereby making efficient use of unused or idle spectrum. Accordingly, secondary users of the wireless communication system can dynamically form ad-hoc mesh network communications in fixed or mobile scenarios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Joseph R. Cleveland
  • Patent number: 8520654
    Abstract: A method is provided for allocating and identifying frequency resources to a terminal in a Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) system. The method includes receiving from a base station a scheduling message including frequency resource information; and calculating the allocated frequency resource based on relative information if the scheduling message is a Relative Grant (RG) message including the relative information generated on a basis of a currently used channel. The relative information includes one of an identifier of a terminal, or an identifier of a channel in use by the terminal as a terminal ID, state information indicating number of channel that stands for increase or decrease amount of frequency resources on a basis of the currently used channel, and, direction information indicating a direction of the state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Youn-Hyoung Heo, Ju-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 8520501
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for enabling a transmitter to transmit a sequence in a wireless communication system, and to an apparatus for the same. A sequence-transmitting method comprises the steps of: performing at least one of a complex conjugate operation and a reverse operation on a first sequence to generate a second sequence; mapping the second sequence to a plurality of subcarriers in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) symbol; and transmitting the OFDMA symbol to a receiver. The invention also relates to an apparatus for the sequence-generating method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Seung Hee Han, Jin Sam Kwak, Sung Ho Moon, Min Seok Noh, Hyun Woo Lee
  • Patent number: 8520657
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) bus controller includes an interface and a processing module. The interface is coupled for communicating intra-device RF bus access requests and allocations. The processing module is coupled to receive an access request to an RF bus via the interface; determine RF bus resource availability; and when sufficient RF bus resources are available to fulfill the access request, allocate, via the interface, at least one RF bus resource in response to the access request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Ahmadreza (Reza) Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 8515474
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a method of operating a base station configured to operate with user devices includes scheduling a first user device in a first slot, scheduling the first user device for at least one further slot, and transmitting an assignment for the at least one further slot to the first user device. The first slot has a first resource block (RB) and a first transmission time interval (TTI) and the at least one further slot has the first RB and a second TTI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gamini Senarath, Israfil Bahceci, Peiying Zhu
  • Patent number: 8514830
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a signal using a prescribed frame structure in a wireless communication system is disclosed. A mobile station is able to transmit or receive a signal using a frame structure with a CP length corresponding to ¼ of a useful symbol. Moreover, the mobile station is able to transmit or receive a signal using a frame structure with a CP length corresponding to ¼ of a useful symbol, which is designed to mutually coexist without causing collision or interference with another frame structure with a different CP length. In this case, a channel bandwidth of the prescribed frame structure is 8.75 MHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Dong Guk Lim, Sung Ho Moon, Han Gyu Cho, Yeong Hyeon Kwon, Jin Sam Kwak
  • Patent number: 8514770
    Abstract: Provided is a method of establishing an uplink in a mobile satellite communication system, the method including: receiving a random uplink access signal from terminals included in a coverage of a satellite beam; estimating a location of each of the terminals; calculating an uplink transmission point in time when each of the terminals transmits an uplink signal, based on the estimated location of each of the terminals; transmitting, to each of the terminals, the calculated uplink transmission point in time; and receiving the uplink signal from each of the terminals at the calculated uplink transmission point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hee Wook Kim, Kunseok Kang, Do-Seob Ahn, Ho Jin Lee
  • Publication number: 20130208687
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for transmitting and receiving uplink data in a wireless communication system. Hopping-related information is received at a mobile station from a base station. Resource allocation information is received at the mobile station from the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 8509265
    Abstract: A system for signaling an application when a requested data rate and Quality of Service cannot be achieved using OFDM wireless data transmission, and the application proceeds by either renegotiating QoS and data rate, or waiting until they requested rate and QoS are met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Amer A. Hassan, Thomas W. Kuehnel, Deyun Wu, Christian Huitema, D. Gabriel Frost
  • Patent number: 8509176
    Abstract: A method of transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system is disclosed. In the method of transmitting the data in the wireless communication system, a base station transmits downlink data to a first terminal supporting a first system through a first zone of a frame, and transmits downlink data to a second terminal supporting a second system through a second zone located at a location separated from the first zone backwardly by a frame offset on a time axis. The wireless communication system may support a bandwidth of 8.75 MHz, the frame offset is an offset between a start point of a frame for the first system and a start point of a frame for the second system, and the first zone includes 3+6*(frame offset?1) Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Wook Bong Lee, Han Gyu Cho, Sung Ho Moon, Jin Sam Kwak, Bin Chul Ihm, Min Seok Noh
  • Patent number: 8509053
    Abstract: A method for multiplexing one or more multiple access regions is disclosed. The method for multiplexing one or more multiple access regions in a wireless access system comprises multiplexing the one or more multiple access regions so that a first base station and a second base station among a plurality of base stations which use one or more multiple access schemes together under a multi-cell environment use a single multiple access scheme in a predetermined resource region allocated to each of the first base station and the second base station; and transmitting multiplexing information obtained from the multiplexing the one or more multiple access regions to a mobile station included in a cell region of the plurality of base stations. As a user uses SC-FDMA scheme and OFDMA scheme together, it is possible to obtain a single carrier effect of the SC-FDMA system and flexibility of the OFDMA system on a time axis and a frequency axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Min Seok Noh, Ki Ho Nam, Seung Hee Han, Han Gyu Cho, Hyun Woo Lee, Dong Cheol Kim, Sung Ho Moon, Jin Sam Kwak, Sung Gu Cho, Yeong Hyeon Kwon