Abstract:
A wireless device at least demodulates, descrambles and decodes a first control signal to generate a first signal. The wireless device processes the first signal by at least encoding, scrambling, modulating and scaling the first signal. The wireless device subtracts the processed first signal from received signals to generate a second signal. The wireless device at least demodulates, descrambles and decodes the second signal to generate a second control message.
Abstract:
A method of data transmission over guard sub-carriers is provided in a multi-carrier OFDM system. Adjacent radio frequency (RF) carriers are used to carry radio signals transmitted through adjacent frequency channels. A plurality of guard sub-carriers between adjacent frequency channels are aligned and identified for data transmission in a pre-defined physical resource unit. The identified guard sub-carriers do not overlap with normal data sub-carriers of the radio signals transmitted through the adjacent frequency channels. At least one of the identified guard sub-carriers is reserved as NULL sub-carrier. A flexible multi-carrier transceiver architecture is also provided in a multi-carrier OFDM system. Different multi-carrier and/or MIMO/SISO data transmission schemes are implemented by adaptively reconfigure same hardware modules including common MAC layer module, physical layer entities, and RF entities. Furthermore, the flexible multi-carrier transceiver architecture can be used to support data transmission over guard sub-carriers.
Abstract:
A transmission apparatus and method for transmitting signals in a multi carrier transmission system comprises a modulator, a band information generator that generates band information defining the frequency bands corresponding to all of the data streams carried within that frequency channel, said band information including a tuning frequency indicator indicating a tuning frequency and a tuning frequency type indicator indicating the type of tuning frequency indicated by said tuning frequency indicator, wherein said type is selected from a group comprising at least a first type indicating a tuning frequency of a frequency band and a second type indicating a center frequency of a frequency channel, and a transmitter.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a spectrum inversion detection apparatus which includes a differential correlation value computing portion, utilized to use a present and previous time axial symbols to compute differential correlation values individually corresponding to carriers; and a controlling portion, utilized to use the differential correlation values, when a spectrum inversion status flag is not at a spectrum inversion state, to compute a correlativity value of the each integer frequency displacement thereby, and when spectrum inversion status flag is at the spectrum inversion state, to determine a maximal correlativity value among all the computed correlativity values, and to decide a spectrum inversion status flag of the computed correlativity value which is determined as the maximal correlativity value thereby utilizing as a detection result signal to output.
Abstract:
A method for efficiently transmitting and receiving control information through a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) is provided. When a User Equipment (UE) receives control information through a PDCCH, the received control information is set to be decoded in units of search spaces, each having a specific start position in the specific subframe. Here, a modulo operation according to a predetermined first constant value (D) is performed on an input value to calculate a first result value, and a modulo operation according to a predetermined first variable value (C) corresponding to the number of candidate start positions that can be used as the specific start position is performed on the calculated first result value to calculate a second result value and an index position corresponding to the second result value is used as the specific start position. Transmitting control information in this manner enables a plurality of UEs to efficiently receive PDCCHs without collisions.
Abstract:
In one aspect, the teachings herein disclose methods and apparatuses for improved reference signal reception in a wireless device configured for operation in a wireless communication network. In one embodiment, the network provides assistance information that indicates a received timing or frequency offset of a second reference signal relative to a first reference signal that is transmitted from a first antenna port. The second reference signal is transmitted by the wireless communication network from a second antenna port that is quasi co-located with the first antenna port with respect to timing, frequency and/or delay spread, and the wireless device is configured to use the assistance information to configure its receiver timing and/or frequency offset for reception of the second reference signal. Such operation reduces the “search” space in time and/or frequency needed at the wireless device, thereby improving and simplifying reception of the second reference signal.
Abstract:
The determination and identification of channels in a signal is an important aspect of the operation of a signal receiver. A method (800) is described including the steps receiving (802) a signal containing a plurality of channels, filtering (806) the signal to produce an indicator of a channel band edge, and determining (818) a characteristic of the channel based on the indicator. Additionally, an apparatus (300) is described including a spectrum shift circuit (304) that receives an input signal and shifts the frequency spectrum of the signal, a filter (306) that filters the frequency shifted signal to produce an indicator of a band edge of a channel, and a signal analysis circuit (316, 318) that determines a characteristic of the channel based on the indicator of the band edge, the signal analysis circuit (316, 318) controlling the frequency shift in the spectrum shift circuit (304) based on the determined characteristic of the channel.
Abstract:
Device coexistence within single user, multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. Different respective communication devices operating using different respective communication channels having different respective channel bandwidths may be implemented within a given communication system. For example, different respective communication devices may belong to different basic services sets (BSSs) (e.g., a 1 MHz BSS operating using channel bandwidths of 1 MHz, and a 2 MHz BSS operating using channel bandwidths of 2 MHz). To effectuate coexistence among different respective devices operating using different respective channel bandwidths, devices but longing to the 1 MHz BSS monitor for and listen for 2 MHz wide communication activity, and those 1 MHz BSS communication devices defer to any detected communication activity on any portion of the 2 MHz channel.
Abstract:
The invention provides for a method of identifying a cyclic prefix to UEs in an OFDM communication system. The cyclic prefix has a dynamically variable length. The method includes, within an OFDM cell, transmitting MCCH scheduling information in a system information block in an OFDM broadcast channel, and using the MCCH scheduling information to receive the MCCH, wherein the MCCH contains MTCH scheduling information to indicate to the UE which sub-frame carries MTCH.
Abstract:
In a method for detecting, at a first communication device, a clock rate of a physical layer (PHY) data unit, the PHY data unit is received, at the first communication device, from a second communication device via a communication channel. The PHY data unit includes (i) a first portion and (ii) a second portion following the first portion. At the first communication device, the first portion of the PHY data unit is processed. Processing the first portion of the PHY data unit includes performing one or more autocorrelations to generate one or more respective autocorrelation outputs. At the first communication device and based on at least one of the one or more autocorrelation outputs, a clock rate of the second portion of the PHY data unit is determined.