Abstract:
A method and system for dynamic rate switching via medium access channel layer signaling is disclosed, wherein data rates for high data rate channels are automatically shifted up or down based on a predetermined metric. In a preferred embodiment, data rates are automatically shifted up or down based on transmit channel gain required to maintain a required signal to noise ratio.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method, device and system for dynamically adapting a clear channel assessment threshold of a wireless communications channel by determining the status of a busy channel indicator for at least a first parameter (105) and dynamically changing the clear channel assessment threshold based on the status of the busy channel indicator (110).
Abstract:
The present invention is a method and apparatus for voice communication. Vocoded frames are transmitted using a transmission intervals. Each transmission interval is split into a first interval portion and a second interval portion. Code symbols associated with each vocoded frame are divided into a group A and a group B. The method includes transmitting group A code symbols of a first vocoded frame using a first interval portion of an interval i; decoding the group A code symbols received at the first interval portion of the interval i; performing an error detection code check on the first interval portion of the interval i; generating and sending a negative acknowledgment signal when the first interval portion of the interval i fails the error detection code check; and transmitting group B code symbols of the first vocoded frame using a second interval portion of an interval i+N.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for communicating in an OFDM system whereby data subcarriers associated with a first antenna of at least two transmit antennas are multiplexed with data symbols while modulating other subcarriers associated with other antennas with zero. The data subcarriers are separated between the at least two transmit antennas so that a data subcarrier and a mirror data subcarrier are not transmitted from a same transmit antenna and that adjacent data subcarriers are at least two subcarrier frequency bandwidths apart. In an embodiment, the method and apparatus further comprise receiving the transmitted subcarriers from at least two receive antennas where the transmitted data subcarriers are also separated so that the data subcarrier and the mirror data subcarrier are not received from a same receive antenna of the at least two receive antennas. The method and apparatus further comprises combining the received transmitted subcarriers from the at least two receive antennas into a single data stream.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for communicating in an OFDM system whereby subcarriers of the OFDM system are multiplexed between at least a first and a second transmit antenna. The subcarriers are separated between the at least two transmit antennas so that a subcarrier and a mirror subcarrier are not transmitted on the same transmit antenna and that adjacent subcarriers on the same antenna are at least two subcarrier frequency bandwidths apart. The method and apparatus for communicating is compatible with either a single receive antenna or with more than one receive antennas. In an embodiment, the method and apparatus further includes receiving the transmitted subcarriers from at least a first and second receive antenna. The subcarriers may also be separated so that the subcarrier and the mirror subcarrier are not received from the same receive antenna and that adjacent subcarriers on the same antenna are at least two subcarrier frequency bandwidths apart. The method and apparatus further includes combining the received transmitted subcarriers from the at least two receive antennas into a single data stream.
Abstract:
At a first device (102 or 104), a message is received and processed. If the message is processed during a first time period, the first device transmits an acknowledgement message during a second time period; otherwise the first device transmits the acknowledgment message during a third time period. The second time period and the third time period are exclusive of each other.
Abstract:
A receiving communication device synchronizes to a timing reference of a transmitting communication device based on a determined timing error. The receiving communication device determines the timing error by processing a synchronization signal via a first stage filtering and interpolation process that includes predetermined coefficients and a second stage interpolation process that includes a minimal number of dynamically determined coefficients. By dividing the process into a predetermined coefficient stage and a dynamically determined coefficient stage, the receiving communication device is able to make timing adjustments in a more efficient manner, that is, at a lesser processor loading, than a communication device in which all filtering and interpolation coefficients are dynamically determined. In addition, by including a second order timing recovery loop, the receiving communication device is able to quickly and precisely respond to drifting of a timing reference differential between itself and the transmitting communication device.
Abstract:
An access point (100) transmits at least a first set of parameters intended for a first set of users (102) and a second set of parameters intended for a second set of users (104). The access point communicates with the first set of users during a first time period and communicates with the second set of users during a second time period, wherein the first time period and the second time period are exclusive of each other. Moreover, the first time period and the second time period lapse prior to the AP transmitting a next set of parameters intended for the first set of users.
Abstract:
An apparatus for driving a sectored or multi beam antenna configuration and corresponding method of level loading amplifiers is suitable for use in a transmitter. The apparatus includes a plurality of Fourier Transform Matrix (FTM) devices 501, each FTM device having a plurality of outputs 513 and a plurality of inputs 511; where the plurality of outputs of an FTM device 503 include a first output A1 and a second output B2 arranged to be coupled, respectively to a first antenna array 403 and a second antenna array 405 and these antenna arrays are included in a plurality of antenna arrays collectively comprising the antenna configuration where the first antenna array and the second antenna array corresponding to different sectors and beams, and a plurality of amplifiers 517, 519, 521, 523 corresponding to each of the FTM devices, where one of the plurality of amplifiers coupled to and driving each of the plurality of inputs.
Abstract:
A communication system (100) that includes base stations (103-109) comprising selection circuitry (207) is provided herein. The determination of a call anchoring base station (base station performing Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) frame selection) is made based on the base station with a lowest mean work load. During communication with a remote unit (113), frames received by non-call anchoring base stations (105, 107) are backhauled to a switch (101). The switch (101) then sidehauls the frames to the call anchoring base station (103), where selection and call processing functions for the particular call takes place.