Coding methods of communicating identifiers in peer discovery in a peer-to-peer network
    21.
    发明授权
    Coding methods of communicating identifiers in peer discovery in a peer-to-peer network 失效
    在对等网络中的对等体发现中传递标识符的编码方法

    公开(公告)号:US08630281B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-01-14

    申请号:US11775793

    申请日:2007-07-10

    IPC分类号: H04J3/06

    摘要: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate identifying peers based upon encoded signals during peer discovery in a peer to peer network. For example, direct signaling that partitions a time-frequency resource into a number of segments can be utilized to communicate an identifier within a peer discovery interval; thus, a particular segment selected for transmission can signal a portion of the identifier, while a remainder can be signaled based upon tones communicated within the selected segment. Moreover, a subset of symbols within the resource can be reserved (e.g., unused) to enable identifying and/or correcting timing offset. Further, signaling can be effectuated over a plurality of peer discovery intervals such that partial identifiers communicated during each of the peer discovery intervals can be linked (e.g., based upon overlapping bits and/or bloom filter information).

    摘要翻译: 描述了系统和方法,其便于在对等网络中的对等体发现期间基于编码信号来识别对等体。 例如,可以利用将时间 - 频率资源分割成多个段的直接信令来在对等设备发现间隔内传送标识符; 因此,选择用于传输的特定片段可以发送标识符的一部分,而可以基于在所选择的段内通信的音调来发信号通知剩余部分。 此外,可以保留资源内的符号子集(例如,未使用的)以使得能够识别和/或校正定时偏移。 此外,可以在多个对等点发现间隔上实现信令,使得可以链接每个对等设备发现间隔期间通信的部分标识符(例如,基于重叠位和/或布隆过滤器信息)。

    Methods and apparatus for supporting distributed scheduling using quality of service information in a peer to peer network
    22.
    发明授权
    Methods and apparatus for supporting distributed scheduling using quality of service information in a peer to peer network 有权
    在对等网络中使用服务质量信息支持分布式调度的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US08391879B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-03-05

    申请号:US12267888

    申请日:2008-11-10

    IPC分类号: H04W72/00

    摘要: Methods and apparatus well suited to decentralized traffic scheduling in wireless peer to peer network are described. An individual wireless terminal corresponding to a peer to peer connection makes a transmitter yielding or receiver yielding decision for a traffic slot. Quality of service information is disseminated as part of the scheduling control signaling. A scheduling control signal, e.g., a traffic transmission request signal or a traffic transmission request response signal, includes a pilot portion and a quality of service information portion. The pilot facilitates the recovery of the quality of service information by a plurality of different devices which may have different channel conditions with respect to the transmitter of the scheduling control signal. The different devices may benefit from utilizing the recovered quality of service information in making a yielding decision regarding traffic signaling in a traffic segment.

    摘要翻译: 描述了非常适合无线对等网络中分散业务调度的方法和设备。 与对等连接相对应的单个无线终端为业务时隙做出发射机屈服或接收机容易判定。 服务质量信息作为调度控制信令的一部分传播。 诸如业务传输请求信号或业务传输请求响应信号的调度控制信号包括导频部分和服务质量信息部分。 导频有助于通过可能具有与调度控制信号的发射机不同的信道条件的多个不同设备来恢复业务质量信息。 不同的设备可以受益于利用恢复的服务质量信息作出关于业务段中的业务信令的收益决定。

    Methods and apparatus for supporting communication over different ranges in a wireless network
    23.
    发明授权
    Methods and apparatus for supporting communication over different ranges in a wireless network 有权
    用于支持无线网络中不同范围通信的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US08385826B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-02-26

    申请号:US12465938

    申请日:2009-05-14

    IPC分类号: H04B7/00

    摘要: Methods and apparatus well suited for supporting communications over different ranges in, for example, a peer to peer wireless communications system, are described. In the peer to peer network at least some of the types of signals, e.g., peer discovery signals and/or paging signals, are transmitted with no closed loop power control. An exemplary peer to peer timing structure includes air link resources allocated for a particular type of signaling in which the resources are segmented into multiple blocks which do not overlap in time, different ones of the multiple blocks being associated with different ranges. The characteristics of the basic transmission units of the multiple blocks based on range are different, e.g., tone size and symbol width are different. A wireless communications device implements the peer to peer timing structure and uses resources from different range based blocks at different times. Data traffic transmission units may be the same regardless of the range.

    摘要翻译: 描述了非常适合于支持例如对等无线通信系统中的不同范围的通信的方法和装置。 在对等网络中,在没有闭环功率控制的情况下,发送至少一些类型的信号,例如对等体发现信号和/或寻呼信号。 示例性的对等定时结构包括为特定类型的信令分配的空中链路资源,其中资源被分段成多个不在时间上重叠的块,多个块中的不同的块与不同的范围相关联。 基于范围的多个块的基本传输单元的特征是不同的,例如,音调尺寸和符号宽度不同。 无线通信设备实现对等定时结构,并且在不同时间使用来自不同基于范围的块的资源。 无论范围如何,数据业务传输单元可能相同。

    Communications methods and apparatus for use in communicating with access routers and/or other devices acting as communications peers
    24.
    发明授权
    Communications methods and apparatus for use in communicating with access routers and/or other devices acting as communications peers 失效
    用于与作为通信对等体的接入路由器和/或其他设备进行通信的通信方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US08160039B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-04-17

    申请号:US12268158

    申请日:2008-11-10

    IPC分类号: H04W4/00

    摘要: Methods and apparatus for performing peer to peer communications with access routers and non-access router peer devices are described. An access terminal generates a channel estimate estimating the channel between the access terminal and an access router. For at least some communication with the access router, a channel compensation operation is performed on a symbol to be transmitted prior to its transmission to the access router. In contrast, symbols transmitted to other access terminals are not subject to a channel compensation operation prior to transmission with the receiving access terminal being responsible for implementing a channel compensation operation on the received signal.

    摘要翻译: 描述了用于与接入路由器和非接入路由器对等设备进行对等通信的方法和装置。 接入终端生成估计接入终端与接入路由器之间的信道的信道估计。 对于与接入路由器的至少一些通信,在要传输到接入路由器之前要对要发送的符号执行信道补偿操作。 相反,发送到其他接入终端的符号在接收接入终端负责对接收到的信号执行信道补偿操作之前不进行信道补偿操作。

    Method and apparatus for power scaling in peer-to-peer communications
    25.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for power scaling in peer-to-peer communications 有权
    点对点通信中功率缩放的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US08140103B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-03-20

    申请号:US12142588

    申请日:2008-06-19

    IPC分类号: H04B7/00

    摘要: An ad hoc peer-to-peer network is provided in which a transmitter wireless terminal is configured to establish a peer-to-peer communication link with a receiver wireless terminal over a shared communication channel. The transmitter wireless terminal may scale its transmit power as a function of a channel gain for the communication channel between the transmitter and receiver wireless terminals. The scaled transmit power may be utilized by the transmitter and receiver wireless terminals to perform link scheduling over the communication channel. For instance, the scaled transmit power may be used by the transmitter wireless terminal to perform a transmitter yielding with other neighboring transmitter wireless terminals utilizing the shared communication channel. Similarly, the scaled transmit power may be used by the receiver wireless terminal to perform receiver yielding with other neighboring receiver wireless terminal utilizing the shared communication channel.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种ad hoc对等网络,其中发射机无线终端被配置为通过共享通信信道与接收机无线终端建立点对点通信链路。 发射机无线终端可以根据发射机和接收机无线终端之间的通信信道的信道增益来扩展其发射功率。 发射机和接收机无线终端可以利用缩放的发射功率在通信信道上执行链路调度。 例如,发射机无线终端可以使用缩放的发射功率来执行利用共享通信信道的其他相邻发射机无线终端的发射机。 类似地,缩放的发射功率可以由接收机无线终端使用,以利用共享通信信道与其他相邻的接收机无线终端一起执行接收机产生。

    Methods and apparatus for providing quality of service in a peer to peer network
    26.
    发明授权
    Methods and apparatus for providing quality of service in a peer to peer network 有权
    在对等网络中提供服务质量的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US08077638B2

    公开(公告)日:2011-12-13

    申请号:US12146888

    申请日:2008-06-26

    IPC分类号: H04J1/16 H04L12/56

    CPC分类号: H04W4/20

    摘要: Methods and apparatus related to scheduling traffic slots in a wireless communications system, e.g., an ad hoc peer to peer communications network are described. An implemented timing structure includes multiple traffic transmission slots and multiple request blocks with different priorities corresponding to a traffic transmission slot. A wireless terminal determines its own block priority level. If a wireless terminal's determined block priority level is the highest block priority level the wireless terminal is allowed to transmit a traffic transmission request in the highest traffic transmission request block; otherwise, the wireless terminal is restricted from transmitting a traffic transmission request in the highest priority request block. A wireless terminal monitors for request and/or request response activity corresponding to other connections high priority block signaling, and uses the collected information to determine its own block priority.

    摘要翻译: 描述了在无线通信系统(例如,自组织对等通信网络)中调度业务时隙的方法和装置。 实施的定时结构包括多个业务传输时隙和具有与业务传输时隙对应的不同优先级的多个请求块。 无线终端确定其自身的块优先级。 如果无线终端确定的块优先级是最高块优先级,则允许无线终端在最高业务传输请求块中发送业务传输请求; 否则,无线终端被限制在最高优先级请求块中发送业务传输请求。 无线终端监视与其他连接高优先级块信令相对应的请求和/或请求响应活动,并且使用所收集的信息来确定其自身的块优先级。

    Methods and apparatus supporting adaptive decentralized traffic scheduling for wireless communications
    27.
    发明授权
    Methods and apparatus supporting adaptive decentralized traffic scheduling for wireless communications 有权
    支持无线通信自适应分散业务调度的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US08072917B2

    公开(公告)日:2011-12-06

    申请号:US12268175

    申请日:2008-11-10

    IPC分类号: H04B7/185 H04B7/204 H04W4/00

    CPC分类号: H04W52/265 H04W52/343

    摘要: Methods and apparatus relating to scheduling of air link resources, e.g., traffic segments, in wireless communications are described. Various described methods and apparatus are well suited to wireless peer to peer networks in which traffic scheduling is decentralized, e.g. an ad hoc peer to peer network. A first wireless terminal receives a transmission request and quality of service information from a second wireless terminal corresponding to a connection. The first wireless terminal decides not to receiver yield, determines a request response transmission power level as a function of the received quality of service information, and transmits, at the determined power level, a generated request response signal. By controllably adjusting the transmission power level of a request response, transmitter yielding decisions of lower priority links are impacted, since lower priority links measure and use received power level information corresponding to request responses of higher priority links in their transmitter yielding decisions.

    摘要翻译: 描述了与无线通信中的空中链路资源(例如业务段)的调度有关的方法和装置。 各种描述的方法和装置非常适合于其中业务调度被分散的无线对等网络,例如, 一个特别的对等网络。 第一无线终端从对应于连接的第二无线终端接收传输请求和服务质量信息。 第一无线终端决定不接收收益,确定作为接收到的服务质量信息的函数的请求响应发送功率电平,并且以所确定的功率电平发送生成的请求响应信号。 通过可控地调整请求响应的发送功率电平,由于较低优先级的链路测量和使用对应于其发射机产生决定中的较高优先级链路的请求响应的接收功率电平信息,所以影响较低优先级链路的发射机出错决策。

    Control channel design to support one-to-one, many-to-one, and one-to-many peer-to-peer communications
    28.
    发明授权
    Control channel design to support one-to-one, many-to-one, and one-to-many peer-to-peer communications 有权
    控制通道设计支持一对一,一对一和一对多对等通信

    公开(公告)号:US07876701B2

    公开(公告)日:2011-01-25

    申请号:US12169087

    申请日:2008-07-08

    IPC分类号: H04L12/26 H04L12/28

    摘要: A protocol is provided that facilitates downlink concurrent peer-to-peer communications (within a time slot or traffic slot) between one device and many terminals as well as uplink concurrent peer-to-peer communications (within a time slot or traffic slot) between a plurality of terminals and one device. The concurrent peer-to-peer communications may take place within an ad hoc network of devices. To facilitate such operation, a time-frequency structure is provided within a control channel that allows the device and terminals to identify the peer-to-peer connections. This time-frequency structure also allows terminals to identify other sibling terminals that have a connection with the same device, thereby allowing to more efficiently performing interference mitigation. That is, sibling peer-to-peer connections with the same device may be treated different from other non-related peer-to-peer connects for purposes of interference mitigation in a wireless network.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种协议,其有助于一个设备与许多终端之间的下行链路并发对等通信(在时隙或业务时隙内)以及上行链路并发对等通信(在时隙或业务时隙内) 多个终端和一个设备。 并发的对等通信可以在设备的自组织网络中进行。 为了促进这种操作,在控制信道内提供时间 - 频率结构,其允许设备和终端识别对等连接。 该时频结构还允许终端识别与同一设备具有连接的其他兄弟终端,从而允许更有效地执行干扰减轻。 也就是说,与无线网络中的干扰减轻的目的可以将与同一设备的同级对等连接对待与其他非相关对等连接不同。

    COMMUNICATIONS DECISION METHODS AND APPARATUS
    29.
    发明申请
    COMMUNICATIONS DECISION METHODS AND APPARATUS 有权
    通信决策方法与设备

    公开(公告)号:US20100120445A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-05-13

    申请号:US12267923

    申请日:2008-11-10

    IPC分类号: H04W72/00 H04M1/00

    CPC分类号: H04W28/24

    摘要: Methods and apparatus for making communications decisions are described. In some embodiments, a method includes recovering a first quality of service level from a first transmission request signal directed to a second communications device, and making a decision whether or not to transmit traffic data to a third communications device based on the recovered first quality of service level. In other embodiments a method includes recovering a first quality of service level from a first transmission request signal, and making a decision whether or not to transmit a first transmission request response signal in response to a second transmission request signal based on the recovered first quality of service level. In some embodiments, the phase of the transmission request signal is used to communicate the quality of service level. The device transmitting the transmission request signal may also transmit pilots which can be used as phase reference signals.

    摘要翻译: 描述通信决策的方法和装置。 在一些实施例中,一种方法包括从指向第二通信设备的第一传输请求信号恢复第一服务质量等级,以及基于恢复的第一质量来决定是否向第三通信设备发送业务数据 服务水平。 在其他实施例中,一种方法包括从第一传输请求信号恢复第一服务质量等级,并且基于恢复的第一质量判定是否响应于第二传输请求信号来发送第一传输请求响应信号 服务水平。 在一些实施例中,传输请求信号的相位用于传达服务质量水平。 发送发送请求信号的装置也可以发送可用作相位参考信号的导频。

    METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR USING CONNECTION IDENTIFIERS HAVING DIFFERENT PRIORITIES AT DIFFERENT TIMES
    30.
    发明申请
    METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR USING CONNECTION IDENTIFIERS HAVING DIFFERENT PRIORITIES AT DIFFERENT TIMES 有权
    在不同时期使用不同优先级的连接标识符的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US20090232142A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-09-17

    申请号:US12047761

    申请日:2008-03-13

    IPC分类号: H04L12/56

    CPC分类号: H04W8/26 H04W72/10 H04W84/18

    摘要: Methods and apparatus related to scheduling and/or utilization of air link traffic resources are described. A connection identifier is associated with priority with regard to use of an air link resource, e.g., a peer to peer traffic segment which is in contention. A particular connection may acquire and hold one or multiple connection identifiers. In some embodiments, the priority associated with a particular connection identifier is intentionally varied in a set of traffic slots. In some such embodiments, there is priority randomization from slot to slot. In one such implementation there is a statistically uniform average priority between the different connection identifiers over the recurring structure. Such an implementation facilitates access to traffic segments to a wide range of users, yet allows for differentiation with regard to the amount of access as a function of the number of connection identifiers being held by a particular connection.

    摘要翻译: 描述与空中链路业务资源的调度和/或利用相关的方法和装置。 关于使用空中链路资源(例如,竞争中的对等业务段),连接标识符与优先级相关联。 特定连接可以获取和保存一个或多个连接标识符。 在一些实施例中,与特定连接标识符相关联的优先级有意在一组业务时隙中变化。 在一些这样的实施例中,存在从时隙到时隙的优先随机化。 在一个这样的实现中,在重复结构上,在不同的连接标识符之间具有统计上均匀的平均优先级。 这样的实现便于对广泛的用户访问业务段,但是允许根据由特定连接持有的连接标识符的数量的访问量的差异。