Abstract:
A method for transmitting control information related to a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process operation using a frequency division duplex (FDD) frame structure by a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system; the BS therefore; a method for receiving control information related to a HARQ process operation using a FDD frame structure by an RN; and the RN therefore are discussed. The method for transmitting control information according to one embodiment includes transmitting information related to a number of HARQ processes. The HARQ processes are sequentially assigned to subframes configured for the RN-to-the BS transmission. If a subframe configured for the BS-to-the RN transmission is a subframe n, a subframe configured for the RN-to-the BS transmission is a subframe n+4. The method further includes transmitting a HARQ ACK/NACK signal for uplink data through a corresponding subframe based on the number of HARQ processes.
Abstract:
In a communication system (100) where a wireless relay node (RN) (114) relays data packets between a Node B (112) and a user equipment (UE) (102), the RN receives (608) a data packet from the Node B via a first wireless link (115), conveys (614) the received data packet to the UE via a second wireless link (120), determines (616) whether the UE is likely to handoff, and in response to determining that the UE is likely to handoff, delays conveying (620, 622) an acknowledgment of the data packet to the Node B until an acknowledgment has been received from the UE. In another embodiment, the RN may use a status report (720) to inform the Node B of data packets that have not been transmitted to the UE or that have been transmitted to the UE but for which an acknowledgement has not been received from the UE.
Abstract:
Historical decoding in accordance with signal interference cancellation (SIC) or joint processing may reduce the amount of data that is re-transported across a network following an unsuccessful attempt to decode a data transmission. In one example, historical decoding is performed in accordance with interference cancellation by communicating information related to interfering data (rather than information related to serving data) following a served receiver's unsuccessful attempt to decode an interference signal. The information related to the interfering data may be the information bits carried by the earlier interfering data transmission or parity information (e.g., forward error correction (FEC) bits, etc.) related to the earlier interfering data transmission.
Abstract:
Techniques for inter-cell interference cancellation are disclosed. At each transmitter, the data (message) may split into two or more layers, (e.g., common and private parts), and may be encoded in different rates, allocated with different powers, possibly beamformed using different precoders, and transmitted through the same physical channels. The common part is to be decoded at both the intended and unintended users, while the private part is to be decoded at the intended user.
Abstract:
A method and device for selective relaying in a communications network having a plurality of sources, a relay, and a reception device. The method includes the following steps: the relay receives messages transmitted respectively by the sources in order to obtain an estimate of the messages; the relay detects errors in the estimated messages; the relay transmits a representative signal to the reception device, the signal being representative of only those messages for which no error was detected and resulting from a non-bijective surjective function applied to the messages detected without error, the function including interleaving and encoding; and the representative signal being transmitted by the relay to the reception device with a control signal indicating which messages are represented in the representative signal.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and machine readable media for implementing a teleconferencing system using transparent relays. The transparent relays may be used to push network probing and certain functionalities as close as possible to each teleconferencing endpoint in order to improve overall video performance.
Abstract:
A method for receiving ACK/NACK information transmitted in response to a downlink transmission. The method according to one embodiment includes transmitting one or more relay physical downlink control channels (R-PDCCHs); transmitting the downlink transmission according to the one or more R-PDCCHs in a downlink subframe set including M downlink subframes, where M is a positive integer; and receiving ACK/NACK information for the downlink transmission in the downlink subframe set. The downlink subframe set and the uplink subframe are configured for a time division duplex (TDD). The one or more R-PDCCHs are control channels different from a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). N physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources respectively having indexes 0, 1, 2, . . . , and N−1 are configured by a higher layer, where N is a positive integer and M≦N. Each of M PUCCH resources corresponds to each of the M downlink subframes.
Abstract:
Relay station (200) in a communication system using PCells and Scells for backhaul communication, and configuring DL BHSFs of the PCell, and UL BHSFs of the PCell located after a prescribed number of subframes after a DL BHSF includes: ACK/NACK generator (203) generating a response signal for a downlink signal received in PCell and SCells from base station (100); transmitter (205) transmitting a response signal in response to a downlink signal received in an SCell in a DL BHSF configured at a timing different from that of the DL BHSF of the PCell, the response signal in UL BHSFs of the SCell a prescribed number of subframes after the DL BHSF, and a response signal for a downlink signal received in an SCell in a DL BHSF having the same timing as that of the DL BHSF of the PCell, and the response in a UL BHSF of the PCell.
Abstract:
Methods, systems and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving space-time block coded data in a wireless communications system with co-operative relays. A source node transmits RF signals representing first and second sets of data symbols in respective first and second channels (in time frequency code or any combination) of a wireless communications system, the first and second sets of data symbols being for transmission from separate antennas respectively according to a space-time block code. A relay node receives the RF signals representing the first set of data symbols in the first channel and transmits RF signals representing the first set of data symbols in the second channel. A destination node received the RF signals representing the second set of data symbols from the source node and the RF signals representing the first set of data symbols from the relay node. This enables decoding of the received RF signals representing the first and second sets of data symbols according to the space-time block code.
Abstract:
A method for use in a land-based seismic survey includes: transmitting a plurality of source control commands to a plurality of seismic sources over a VHF/IP network; and managing congestion on the VHF/IP network while transmitting the source control commands. In other aspects, a program storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by a processor, perform such a method and a computer programmed to perform such a method.