摘要:
Resources in a multi-cellular wireless communication system are scheduled. A beam pattern associated with at least one mobile terminal located within one of the cells is identified and assigned to a slot, providing at least one stream to said at least one mobile terminal. At least one other mobile terminal located within said cell having the same beam pattern associated therewith as that of said identified beam pattern to be served during said slot is scheduled. The assigned beam pattern in said cell is communicated to at least one interfering cell.
摘要:
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for scheduling sub-carriers in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communication system. In an exemplary method, channel quality metric values for each of a plurality of sub-channels are determined, in view of a selected mobile terminal. For each of two or more threshold levels for the channel quality metric, sub-carrier groups composed of sub-carriers corresponding to sub-channels having channel quality metric values superior to the threshold level are identified, and an estimated data throughput is calculated for each of the identified sub-carrier groups. One or more of the identified sub-carrier groups is allocated to the selected mobile terminal according to the estimated data throughputs.
摘要:
In a radio network a determination is made whether to implement cyclical delay diversity (CDD) for a radio frequency connection involving a radio base station (26) and a wireless terminal (30). The determination whether to implement cyclical delay diversity (CDD) is made in accordance with interference distribution at the wireless terminal (30), as such interference distribution is measured or otherwise perceived. When a determination is made to implement the cyclical delay diversity for the connection, plural transmit antennas (38) of the radio base station (26) are employed to implement the cyclical delay diversity for the connection. One or more indications of the interference distribution may be received and used to make the determination. The indication(s) of interference distribution can take the form of information received from the wireless terminal, and/or the form of frequency reuse plan information for interfering cells. For example, the determination to implement the cyclical delay diversity can be made affirmatively if the frequency reuse for interfering cells is above a predetermined frequency reuse number. In differing embodiments, either the radio base station (26) or the wireless terminal (30) can make the CDD implementation determination.
摘要:
The invention relates to channel estimation in a receiver. The channel estimation for a current data block is based on a previous data block, where the two data blocks are based on common information. Data symbol hypotheses of the previous data block can be forwarded to a channel estimator and used as known reference symbols when estimating the channel response for the current block. Alternatively, a combination of the data symbol hypotheses and preliminary data symbol estimates of the current block are used as reference symbols in a refined channel estimation for the current block. Data bit hypotheses of the previous block can also be input as a priori data in a preliminary demodulation of the current block. The demodulator output is used as reference data in a refined channel estimation for the current block. The invention is well-adapted for usage in connection with Hybrid ARQ.