Abstract:
The present application discloses a method for wireless communications network performance in transmitting a message. The method comprises creating a first beamformed virtual antenna for the serving BTS and one or more second beamformed virtual antennas for the one or more target BTSs when one or more predetermined conditions are met, establishing a first beamformed channel by using the first beamformed virtual antenna, establishing one or more second beamformed channels by using the one or more second beamformed virtual antennas, and transmitting a plurality of signals comprising the message via the first and the one or more second beamformed channels.
Abstract:
A method for cell control in a wireless network is disclosed, which comprises providing a base transceiver station (BTS) with a plurality of antennas receiving a plurality of feed signals, respectively, varying one or more parameters of the plurality of feed signals according to a plurality of predetermined criteria for synthesizing a desired antenna radiation pattern, wherein a coverage area of the BTS is adjusted.
Abstract:
The present invention discloses a method and system for improving the performance of a trellis-based decoder. The method comprises generating a first state with reduced uncertainty (SRU) and one or more second SRUs with one or more predetermined fields in a message (410); setting metrics of one or more states in the first SRU, which have an equal probability, to a first predetermined value; setting metrics of one or more states that are not in the first SRU to a second predetermined value, which corresponds to a minimum probability; and decoding the message while eliminating invalid candidate paths in a trellis by setting the metrics of the one or more states not belonging to the one or more second SRUs to a value corresponding to the second predetermined value (430).
Abstract:
A system for detecting one or more localized burst errors in a receiving message comprised of a plurality of codewords. The system comprises a trellis code decoder (210) for decoding a receiving message with a plurality of codewords and calculating one or more cumulative metrics of a maximum likelihood path and one or more alternative paths from the receiving message, an error detection code (EDC) decoder (230) for detecting existence of one or more errors in the decoded receiving message received from the trellis decoder, and a localized burst error detector (240) activated by the EDC decoder upon detecting the existence of one or more errors in the decoded receiving message to identify at least one corrupted codeword among the plurality of codewords using the one or more cumulative metrics of a maximum likelihood path and the one or more alternative paths, wherein the system requests the re-transmission of the corrupted codeword.
Abstract:
The present invention discloses a method for allocating an uplink sounding region dynamically to obtain downlink channel quality information (CQI) about a downlink channel. The method comprises receiving a downlink transmission request and retrieving an identification information from the downlink transmission request, searching one or more databases using the retrieved identification information as a key, identifying the CQI about the downlink channel from the one or more databases, wherein the uplink sounding region needs not to be allocated when the CQI corresponding to the downlink transmission request is identified in the databases.
Abstract:
The present invention disclosed a method for obtaining a covariance matrix of a transmitting channel in a wireless network. The method comprises calculating a speculative transformation matrix, generating a covariance matrix of a receiving channel, and transforming the covariance matrix of the receiving channel into a covariance matrix of a transmitting channel using the speculative transformation matrix.
Abstract:
The present invention discloses a method for selecting one or more downlink beamforming vectors for a wireless channel to create beamformed signals. The method comprises estimating a downlink channel covariance matrix by using an uplink covariance matrix of the wireless channel, computing a plurality of downlink eigenvectors of a downlink channel by using the downlink channel covariance matrix, generating a plurality of downlink beamforming weighting vectors by using the plurality of downlink eigenvectors of the downlink channel, and selecting one or more dominant downlink beamforming weighting vectors from the plurality of downlink beamforming weighting vectors based on feedback from a mobile station (MS), wherein the downlink beamformed signals are created by applying the corresponding one or more dominant beamforming weighting vectors to an antenna array of a base transceiver station.
Abstract:
The present invention discloses a method for generating beamformed multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) channels. The method comprises receiving by a base station (BS) a first plurality of receiving signals transmitted from a first antenna on a mobile station (MS), receiving by the BS a second plurality of receiving signals transmitted from a second antenna on the MS, nulling out a first predetermined percentage of the second plurality of receiving signals to generate a third plurality of receiving signals, calculating a first beamforming weighting vector corresponding to the first antenna on the MS using the first and third pluralities of receiving signals and creating a first beamformed MIMO channel from the BSto the first antenna on the MS using the first beamforming weighting vector.
Abstract:
A method for partitioning a plurality of antennas in a wireless communication system, in which the antennas are grouped into a first set of partitions and a second set of partitions. One or more signal transmission schemes are performed with the antennas grouped into the first set of partitions for a first time period, and then with the antennas grouped into the second set of partitions for a second time period.
Abstract:
A method is disclosed for optimizing up-link transmit powers of a wireless broadband terminal operating in a predetermined frequency band in a multi-carrier system, the method comprising assigning a transmit signal to one or more sub-carriers of predetermined frequencies, and capping the output powers of the transmit signal to a predetermined level based on the predetermined frequencies, wherein the output power of the transmit signal is lower if frequencies of the transmit signal have less guard band to the edge of the predetermined frequency band.