Abstract:
A method for use in a cellular system comprising a plurality of base stations with corresponding cells, in which system the communication between users in a cell and the base station is divided into an up link period and a down link period, the method comprising letting a controlling node instruct the base stations regarding: a first point in time when the base station should start transmitting a control signal; a second point in time when the base station should start to listen for control signals from other base stations and measure their time of arrival and signal strength; a third point in time when the base station should cease listening for control signal; and a fourth point in time when the base station should transmit the measurements results to a receiving node in the system.
Abstract:
In a cellular system, transmissions are made in subframes which comprise subelements. The method is used for scheduling first and second channels in a subframe, and comprises: dividing the transmission resources for the first channel into a first set of resource groups, assigning the resource groups of the first set to subelements in the subframe in a predetermined fashion, assigning a symbol value to all subelements in the subframe which have not been assigned a resource groups of the first set, dividing the transmission resources for the second channel into a second set of resource groups, assigning the resource groups of the second set to subelements in the subframe by means of said symbol values.
Abstract:
The invention relates to methods and communication devices in a network comprising the steps of mapping (S2) and allocating a first random access resource to a first frequency in an uplink subframe of a radio frame, and transmitting (S4) an expression on the radio channel expressing mapping of the first random access resource to use in relation to at least one uplink subframe.
Abstract:
Method and arrangements for scheduling transmission resources in a first node in a cell comprised within a wireless communication network. The first node is arranged to communicate over a communication channel with at least one user equipment within the cell. The communication is made by using a frame comprising uplink resources and downlink resources with a switching point between the downlink resources and the uplink resources. The method comprises the step of obtaining a parameter referring to the expected transmission quality of the communication and/or the expected coherence properties of the communication channel. The method also comprises scheduling a transmission on an uplink or downlink resource. The resource is located on a time distance from the switching point. The time distance is based on the obtained parameter.
Abstract:
A terminal is configured to receive data packets from a base station and provide feedback to the base station. The feedback concerns the reception status of the received data packets and may comprise an ACK/NAK. A method in the terminal comprises receiving and decoding data packets from the base station in a subframe. It is further established whether any data packet within the received subframe is not correctly received and detected whether any subframe, expected to be received, has been missed. Further, acknowledgement information ACK/NAK is generated, and a scrambling code is selected with which the ACK/NAK is scrambled. The scrambled ACK/NAK is then sent to the base station, concerning the reception status of the data packets within the received subframes.
Abstract:
It is presented a method performed in a first network node. The method comprises the steps of: receiving an uplink transmission from a mobile communication terminal; determining, based on content of the uplink transmission, information to be transmitted over a first communication channel when the content comprises control data intended for a second network node; transmitting the information over the first communication channel to the second network node when the information is to be transmitted over the first communication channel; and transmitting the information via a second communication channel, the second communication channel being physically separate from the first communication channel, when the information is not to be transmitted over the first communication channel. A corresponding network node is also presented.
Abstract:
Some embodiments herein relate to method in a user equipment (10) for determining a transmit power to be used by the user equipment when transmitting in a radio communications network, which user equipment (10) is served by a radio network node (12,12′) in the radio communications network. The user equipment (10) receives, from the radio network node (12,12′), an indication indicating a set of power control parameters out of multiple sets of power control parameters, which multiple sets of power control parameters are stored at the user equipment (10). The user equipment (10) determines a transmit power based on the indicated set of power control parameters.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to methods and arrangements in a base station and a user equipment for determining an uplink transmission timing correction for communication in a telecommunication system in which aggregation of component carriers is applied. The base station receives a signal from the user equipment on a uplink (UL) component carrier and measures the arrival time of the signal. A timing correction of the UL transmission timing based on the arrival time of the signal is determined. Thereupon the base station determines for which of the uplink component carriers used by the user equipment the timing correction is valid. The timing correction and the validity information is sent to the user equipment. The user equipment adjusts the UL transmission timing for each UL component carrier the timing correction is valid for.
Abstract:
A method in a terminal for providing an ACK/NAK message to a base station is provided. The terminal counts the number of assigned downlink subframes detected from the base station resulting in k. The terminal then establishes whether each of a number of transport blocks comprised in the counted k downlink subframes is correctly received or not. In the case when each one of the transport blocks, comprised in the k downlink subframes is estimated as correctly received the terminal provides to the base station an encoded ACK message for the k subframes, which comprises k, the number of subframes.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to methods and arrangements in a wireless communication system that enable the use of multi-codeword transmission and ACK/NACK compression with low performance loss. It also enables the use of advanced receivers of reasonable complexity. This is achieved by a solution based on the even distribution of the symbols of separately coded blocks of information bits over the available physical resources before transmission. Each physical resource will thus carry a mixture of symbols from all blocks of information bits, which results in a more similar channel quality for the blocks of information bits. A compressed ACK/NACK message corresponding to the blocks of information bits will thus be more accurate and the performance loss due to the ACK/NACK compression can be reduced.