Abstract:
A method comprising receiving a feedback indicating correctness of data channel decoding, determining that the feedback is an ambiguous feedback, determining an average estimated control channel block error rate, comparing the average estimated control channel block error rate to a feature associated with a control channel block error rate, and, based on the comparison, interpreting the feedback as one of the following: a negative acknowledgement or a discontinuous transmission.
Abstract:
Various communication systems may benefit from carrier aggregation. For example, carrier aggregation may benefit from improved resource allocation. A method, in certain embodiments, includes allocate resources in a subframe so as to avoid at least one of a first resource or a last resource in the subframe. The subframe does not comprise a sounding reference signal. The method also includes sending a message comprising the resource allocation of the subframe to a user equipment.
Abstract:
An example implementation may include determining that a soft buffer size for a transport block of a serving cell in a wireless network has changed, determining a maximum transport block size to be used for downlink data transmission to a user device during a connection reconfiguration process, and causing sending, to the user device during the connection reconfiguration process, a transport block that is less than or equal to the maximum transport block size.
Abstract:
In one aspect thereof the exemplary embodiments of this invention provide a method that includes, prior to confirmation that a network access node has correctly acquired capabilities of a user equipment, operating a user equipment with the network access node in accordance with a first rate matching mode and, only after confirmation to the user equipment that the network access node has correctly acquired capabilities of the user equipment, changing the rate matching mode to a second rate matching mode. In an embodiment the first rate matching mode comprises puncturing a downlink shared channel transmission with a set of resource elements, which may be at least one of reference symbols and muted resource elements, and the second rate matching mode comprises rate matching the downlink shared channel around those resource elements that are members of the set of resource elements. Also described are apparatus and computer readable storage medium storing program code that operate in accordance with the method.
Abstract:
In one aspect thereof the exemplary embodiments of this invention provide a method that includes, prior to confirmation that a network access node has correctly acquired capabilities of a user equipment, operating a user equipment with the network access node in accordance with a first rate matching mode and, only after confirmation to the user equipment that the network access node has correctly acquired capabilities of the user equipment, changing the rate matching mode to a second rate matching mode. In an embodiment the first rate matching mode comprises puncturing a downlink shared channel transmission with a set of resource elements, which may be at least one of reference symbols and muted resource elements, and the second rate matching mode comprises rate matching the downlink shared channel around those resource elements that are members of the set of resource elements. Also described are apparatus and computer readable storage medium storing program code that operate in accordance with the method.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus may include determining a channel between a secondary cell and a user equipment. The method may also include transmitting information relating to the channel to a primay cell of a second network node. The transmitting the information comprises transmitting via an interface between the secondary cell and the primary cell.
Abstract:
A method comprising monitoring whether or not an allocation of uplink communication resources on a primary cell of a communication network is successful for a communication element to be scheduled on a downlink channel of at least one secondary cell of the communication network, and incrementing at least one counter according to the monitoring result.