摘要:
A communications network (10) comprises a base station (28) and a wireless terminal (30) which communicates over an air interface (32) with the base station (28). The base station (28) makes an identification or categorization of the wireless terminal (30) during a ranging procedure. The identification or categorization concerns whether or not the wireless terminal (30) has an enhanced capability. The categorization is made on a basis of a transmission characteristic of the wireless terminal (30). The base station (28) can then communicate with the wireless terminal (30) in a manner to utilize the enhanced capability of the wireless terminal (30).
摘要:
A base station in an OFDMA system which determines a modulation and coding scheme to use for a packet of a certain size to be transmitted by a Mobile Station. The base station schedules transmissions by mobile stations and transmits packets. The base station includes a processing unit which determines a number of time-frequency resources required to transmit the packet for a modulation and coding scheme, determines an SINR based on the number of time-frequency resources used and available power at the mobile station, determines a transmission rate as a ratio of the packet size transmitted to the number of time-frequency resources used, sets a rate to zero if the determined SINR is lower than a threshold SINR required for the modulation and coding scheme, and selects the modulation and coding scheme with a highest transmission rate. The base station includes a memory storing modulation and coding schemes.
摘要:
A radio access network (RAN) (20) comprise a base station (28) and a wireless terminal (30). The base station 28 comprises a transceiver (38) and a frame handler (40), the wireless terminal (30) comprises a transceiver (48) and a wireless terminal frame handler (50). The frame handlers (40, 50) handle a enhanced frame F having enhanced frame structure. At least a down link portion of the frame is formatted and handled in a manner whereby the frame can be perceived as a first format type of frame if the wireless terminal is a first type of wireless terminal and perceived as an enhanced or second format type of frame if the wireless terminal is a second type of wireless terminal. The frame handler configures the frame as plural sub frames, each sub frame having a down link burst followed by an up link burst. The frame is preferably configured to afford the second type of wireless terminal sufficient time to develop an acknowledgement for a message transmitted in a down link burst, the acknowledgement being sent to the base station in an up link burst which is within one frame length of the message.
摘要:
A radio access network (RAN) (20) comprise a base station (28) and a wireless terminal (30). The base station 28 comprises a transceiver (38) and a frame handler (40), the wireless terminal (30) comprises a transceiver (48) and a wireless terminal frame handler (50). The frame handlers (40, 50) handle a enhanced frame F having enhanced frame structure. At least a down link portion of the frame is formatted and handled in a manner whereby the frame can be perceived as a first format type of frame if the wireless terminal is a first type of wireless terminal and perceived as an enhanced or second format type of frame if the wireless terminal is a second type of wireless terminal. The frame handler configures the frame as plural sub frames, each sub frame having a down link burst followed by an up link burst. The frame is preferably configured to afford the second type of wireless terminal sufficient time to develop an acknowledgement for a message transmitted in a down link burst, the acknowledgement being sent to the base station in an up link burst which is within one frame length of the message.
摘要:
A method is described herein for reducing the number of feedback bits needed to send channel state information over a feedback channel from a receiving unit (102; 104) (e.g., mobile terminal, base station) to a transmitter unit (104; 102) (e.g., base station, mobile terminal) in a wireless communication system (100). In the embodiment, the receiver unit (102; 104) is capable of performing the following steps: receiving a pilot signal from a transmit antenna located at a transmitter unit (104; 102); analyzing a channel tap associated with the transmit antenna (106-1; 106-2 … 106-3) and exploiting the temporal correlations of the channel tap to generate the following (i) a delta-modulated feedback bit indicative of a real part of a complex coefficient of the channel tap associated with the transmit antenna (106-1; 106-2 … 106-3) and (ii) a delta-modulated feedback bit indicative of an imaginary part of the complex coefficient of the channel tap associated with the transmit antenna; and (3) sending the two feedback bits over a feedback channel to the transmitter unit (104; 102) which analyzes the two feedback bits, and other feedback bits corresponding to other channel taps of this and other transmit antennas (106-1; 106-2 … 106-3), to optimize the subsequent transmission of data to the receiver unit (102; 104).
摘要:
According to embodiments of the present invention, multiple frames or sub-frames on an uplink channel may be aggregated into one logical unit for demodulation and decoding to allow one data packet to span over multiple frames. Multi-frame aggregation is enabled by modifying the uplink resource allocation messages transmitted to the user terminals. The multi-frame resource allocation message includes a BEGIN FLAG field indicating whether a corresponding frame is the first frame in a multi-frame allocation and a REMAINING RESOURCES field to indicate the number of units (e.g., slots or frames) remaining in the multi-frame allocation.