Abstract:
A serial concatenated coder includes an outer coder and an inner coder. The outer coder irregularly repeats bits in a data block according to a degree profile and scrambles the repeated bits. The scrambled and repeated bits are input to an inner coder, which has a rate substantially close to one.
Abstract:
An electronic MIMO-OFDM carrier frequency recovery method is disclosed. The method includes receiving a wirelessly propagated time-domain signal observation, estimating a data-channel vector from a latest observation vector by correcting for a phase rotation effect based on an initial estimate or an up-to-date estimate of a phase rotation term, removing an effect associated with the data-channel vector from the latest observation vector using the estimated data-channel vector to obtain an up-to-date estimate of the phase rotation term; and repeating those prior acts iteratively to allow for production of FFT input samples that are free or nearly free of carrier frequency and phase error.
Abstract:
A serial concatenated coder includes an outer coder and an inner coder. The outer coder irregularly repeats bits in a data block according to a degree profile and scrambles the repeated bits. The scrambled and repeated bits are input to an inner coder, which has a rate substantially close to one.
Abstract:
Improved ways of communicating assignment signals using flash signaling are described, e.g., for wireless terminals with low SNR, that are more robust against large variation of channel gains due to e.g., frequency selective fading and fast fading in time. Coding and modulation methods and apparatus that have excellent properties against symbol erasures are described. The use of flash signaling provides an improved assignment channel having strong performance on the fading channel without compromising the performance on the AWGN channel. In one exemplary embodiment, the coding and modulation method can tolerate up to 5 erased symbols out of 8 transmitted symbols. One embodiment reduces or minimizes the sector interference on the flash assignment by improving or maximizing orthogonality between different sectors. In addition, one embodiment describes improved ways of swapping flash assignment tone-symbols in the presence other high priority signals, like sector pilots and sector null pilots.
Abstract:
A wireless terminal includes an uplink rate option indicator in the same uplink channel segment with data, the rate option indicator providing transmission rate information about the data transmitted in the segment. The indicator value is represented by an energy pattern within the segment. Different energy patterns correspond to different indicator values. The number of indicator values is less than the number of possible uplink data rate options supported by the wireless terminal. A single indicator value represents different uplink data rate options, at different times, as a function of a received maximum data rate option and/or type of assignment message. The maximum data rate option and/or assignment message was transmitted by the same base station receiving the indicator value; therefore, there is no ambiguity between wireless terminal and base station as to the interpretation of the uplink data rate option indicator value with respect to an individual uplink segment.
Abstract:
In a method for holding calls, a first UE performs a first call with a second UE through a first CS access call leg. A signaling endpoint of the first CS access call leg is an ICCF and the first CS access call leg supports a first media type. An ICCC request is sent to hold the first call. The first UE sends an ICCC request to initiate a second call with a third UE. The second call is performed with the third UE through a second CS access call leg. The second CS access call leg supports a second media type.
Abstract:
A call transfer method, system, and device are provided. The method includes obtaining information that the mobile switching center (MSC) of a called user equipment (UE) executes a call transfer service, and instructing the MSC of the called UE to send a call request to a third party UE according to the call originating process of the called UE.
Abstract:
The claimed subject matter relates to enabling antenna switching in a wireless terminal that has multiple receive antennas per receive chain via soft-demodulation and interleaving of concatenated code received in a strip channel. A coherent demodulation protocol may be performed to estimate an SNR for a first antenna during a first time period, and a non-coherent demodulation protocol may be utilized on the strip channel to estimate an SNR for at least one other antenna during a second time period. SNRs may be compared and the terminal may select the antenna with the highest SNR for a next transmission superslot.
Abstract:
Special DC tone treatment in a wireless communications system, e.g., an OFDM system, is discussed. In the downlink, a wireless terminal receiver introduces self-interference at the DC tone from the RF/baseband conversion. A base station every so often does not transmit on the downlink DC tone while continuing to transmit on other downlink tones. Wireless terminals measure received signal on the downlink DC tone during the time of suspended DC tone transmission, estimate self-interference and apply a correction to other received downlink DC tones. In the uplink DC tone interference is a composite of the assigned wireless terminal transmitter's baseband/RF conversion self-interference and air link noise. During one symbol interval of an N symbol interval dwell, the uplink DC tone is reserved for a special modulation symbol, which is a predetermined function of the other N−1 modulation symbols. At the base station, its receiver receives a set of modulation symbols conveyed by the uplink DC tone for a dwell, calculates the average DC component and corrects the received N−1 modulation symbols.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for allocating and hopping tones for uplink communications purposes in adjacent sectors and neighboring cells of an OFDM system are described. Physical tones used in each sector and cell are allocated to tone hopping sequences according to a tone to tone hopping sequence allocation function which uses both a cell identifier and sector identifier. Different sectors and cells use different tone to tone hopping sequence allocation functions through the use of different cell and/or sector identifiers to minimize the number of collisions between hopping sequences of adjacent sectors and neighboring cells. Uplink tone hopping sequences, corresponding to logical tones are allocated to uplink communications channels. Uplink communications channels are used by wireless terminals, e.g., mobile nodes, to transmit data to base stations. Over time, a wireless terminal uses the tones included in the uplink tone hopping sequences corresponding to uplink communications channels it is authorized to use.