摘要:
Downlink traffic channel data rate options and methods of indicating to a wireless terminal a utilized downlink data rate option are described. The downlink traffic channel rate option for a segment is conveyed using an assignment signal and/or a block in the downlink traffic channel segment which is not used for user data. Downlink segment assignment signals in some implementations allocate fewer bits for rate option indication than are required to uniquely identify each option, hi some implementations low rate options, e.g., using QPSK, are uniquely identified via assignment signals. Higher rate options, e.g., using QAMl 6 modulation, are conveyed via the distinct information block in the downlink traffic segment using a first coding/modulation method. Still higher rate options, e.g., using QAMl 6, QAM64, or QAM256, are conveyed via the information block in the segment using a second coding/modulation method which is applied to the rate option information.
摘要:
A stream of modulation symbols from a zero symbol rate (ZSR) coding/modulation module and a stream of modulation symbols from another type of coding/modulation module are input into an interweaver module. The interweaver module mixes the two input streams when assigning modulation symbols to be communicated in a segment. If a ZSR modulation symbol is non-zero, the ZSR modulation symbol is allocated a transmission position. If the ZSR modulation symbol is a zero modulation symbol, the modulation symbol from the other coding/modulation module is allocated the transmission position. The non-zero modulation symbols from the ZSR module are higher in power than the non-zero modulation symbols from the other module, thus facilitating detection and recovery.
摘要:
An iterative message passing decoder, e.g., an LDPC decoder (404), operating in conjunction with a soft input - soft output signal processing unit (402), e.g., an ISI detector, has an error floor performance region influenced by the decoder’s suboptimal message passing nature. Error floor reduction is achieved by a simple message re-initialization mechanism. Decoder edge states, e.g., constraint to variable node messages in decoder memory, are reinitialized, e.g., for an iteration, during the decoding after soft values provided by signal-processing unit (402) have improved. During the message re-initialization and for some subsequent amount of iterative decoder processing, extrinsic information (416) fed back from the decoder to the signal processing unit (402) and/or soft values delivered to the decoder from the signal processing unit (402), in an outer communications loop, is temporarily frozen, e.g., using a switch and a buffer (410). Then, the outer communications loop is restored as the decoding continues, achieving improved decoding performance.
摘要:
A base station selects and assigns uplink segments to specific wireless terminals. The base station estimates potential system interference levels, selects, assigns, and transmits a maximum uplink rate indicator value to a wireless terminal indicating the maximum uplink dat rate that the wireless terminal is permitted to use. The wireless terminal receives the maximum data rate indicator and selects an uplink data rate to use which is less than or equal to the maximum data rate indicator level. The selection includes consideration of data amounts, data importance, communications channel quality, changes affecting the channel and/or power information. The wireless terminal encodes information indicative of the selected used rate wit the user data/information to be transmitted by placing additional energy on a subset of the uplin signals. The base station receives the uplink signals including user data/information and data rate. The base station extracts the data rate used and utilizes the data rate to demodulate and decode the uplink user data/information.
摘要:
A stream of modulation symbols from a zero symbol rate (ZSR) coding/modulation module and a stream of modulation symbols from another type of coding/modulation module are input into an interweaver module. The interweaver module mixes the two input streams when assigning modulation symbols to be communicated in a segment. If a ZSR modulation symbol is non-zero, the ZSR modulation symbol is allocated a transmission position. If the ZSR modulation symbol is a zero modulation symbol, the modulation symbol from the other coding/modulation module is allocated the transmission position. The non-zero modulation symbols from the ZSR module are higher in power than the non-zero modulation symbols from the other module, thus facilitating detection and recovery.
摘要:
Downlink traffic channel data rate options and methods of indicating to a wireless terminal a utilized downlink data rate option are described. The downlink traffic channel rate option for a segment is conveyed using an assignment signal and/or a block in the downlink traffic channel segment which is not used for user data. Downlink segment assignment signals in some implementations allocate fewer bits for rate option indication than are required to uniquely identify each option. In some implementations low rate options, e.g., using QPSK, are uniquely identified via assignment signals. Higher rate options, e.g., using QAM16 modulation, are conveyed via the distinct information block in the downlink traffic segment using a first coding/modulation method. Still higher rate options, e.g., using QAM16, QAM64, or QAM256, are conveyed via the information block in the segment using a second coding/modulation method which is applied to the rate option information.
摘要:
Methods and apparatus for implementing and/or using amplifiers and performing various amplification related operations are described. The methods are well suited for use with, but not limited to, switching type amplifiers. The methods and apparatus described herein allow for the use of switching amplifiers while reducing and/or compensating for distortions that the use of such amplifiers would normally create. The described methods and apparatus can be used alone or in combination with various novel signaling schemes which can make it easier to compensate for the non-ideal behavior of switching amplifiers in such a way as to enable practical application in wireless transmission and/or other applications.
摘要:
Methods and apparatus for implementing a multi-carrier communications system are described. Various approaches to a phased system deployment and system configurations resulting from different levels of deployment are described. In addition mobile node (700) and methods of operating mobile nodes (700) in communications systems that may have different levels of deployment in different cells are described.