摘要:
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing energy efficient operation for wireless access nodes in a dense deployment of wireless access nodes in a cellular communication network. In one particular embodiment, wireless access nodes form a super dense network. In one embodiment, a wireless access node in a dense deployment of wireless access nodes in a cellular communication network includes a transmitter and a receiver that are operated according to a discontinuous transmit and a discontinuous receive mode of operation. The wireless access node controls one or more duty cycles for the discontinuous transmit and discontinuous receive mode of operation based on an alertness state of the wireless access node. In one embodiment, the one or more duty cycles increase as the alertness state of the wireless access node increases. In this manner, the wireless access node is operated in an energy efficient manner.
摘要:
Precoder weights employed at a base station which coordinates with other base stations to form a super-cell are determined by (a) determining an initial downlink preceding matrix at the base station for a mobile station serviced by the base station in the super-cell, (b) revising a downlink receiver matrix associated with the mobile station based on the initial downlink precoding matrix; (c) transforming the downlink receiver matrix to an uplink precoder matrix associated with the mobile station, (d) revising an uplink receiver matrix associated with each base station in uplink communication with the mobile station based on the uplink precoder matrix associated with the mobile station, and (e) revising the initial downlink preceding matrix by transforming the uplink receiver matrix to a revised downlink precoding matrix Steps (b), (c), (d) and (e) are repeated for a pellicular number of iterations to determine a final downlink preceding matrix for the mobile station.
摘要:
According to methods and apparatus taught herein, user equipments (UEs) in a wireless communication network are scheduled based on determining received signal power densities for a plurality of UEs to be scheduled, allocating UEs to scheduling intervals based on a sorting of their received signal power densities, and assigning UEs in the same scheduling interval to mirror frequency bands within an available frequency spectrum according to the sorting. For example, UEs to be scheduled are assigned to a given scheduling interval in rank order of their received signal power densities until the scheduling interval is fully allocated. Remaining UEs are assigned in rank order to one or more other scheduling intervals, and the process may be repeated or otherwise carried out on an ongoing basis. Such an allocation scheme tends to minimize both adjacent frequency and mirror frequency interferences between UEs scheduled in the same interval.
摘要:
A backhaul link is established between a base station and a relay that assists the base station in communicating with a mobile device over an access link established between the relay and the mobile device. The channel response of the backhaul link is determined by estimating first and second parts of the backhaul link channel response, the second part changing faster than the first part. The first part of the backhaul link channel response is estimated by calculating an average of the backhaul link channel response over a predetermined period at the relay and the second part is estimated by calculating variation in the backhaul link channel response over the predetermined period at the relay. Quantized versions of the first and second parts of the backhaul link channel response are transmitted from the relay to the base station over the backhaul link.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method of generating mutually orthogonal reference signals for different user terminals in and OFDM system that span different but overlapping subcarriers. The subcarriers allocated to the user terminals are divided into a plurality of non-overlapping subcarrier blocks. Each user terminal is then allocated one or more subcarrier blocks. For each subcarrier block, a user terminal is assigned a reference signal comprising a base reference sequence and a linear phase rotation. To ensure mutual orthogonality among all user terminals, user terminals allocated the same subcarrier block use the same base reference sequence with different linear phase rotations.
摘要:
Multi-antenna transmission control presented herein involves generating a set of virtual channel realizations at the transmitter (10) that shares the same second-order statistics as the actual channel realizations observed for a targeted receiver (12). By making the control-related quantities of interest at the transmitter (10) depend on the long-term statistics of the channel, the actual channel realizations are not needed for transmission control, e.g., for accurate Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) precoding. As such, the use of virtual channel realizations enables transmission control that approaches the "closed-loop" channel capacity that would be provided by full feedback of the (instantaneous) actual channel realizations, without requiring the overhead signaling burden that attends full feedback.
摘要:
The proposed layer solution defines two or more layers of relay nodes (10) to convey traffic data from a source node (10S) to a destination node (10D). All of the nodes (10) in a given layer were selected for that layer because they each satisfied a signal quality requirement specified for that layer, where all relay nodes (10) defined in one layer simultaneously start transmitting in response to a received transmission. Due to the layered approach, the destination node (10D) may be configured to decode only the traffic data relayed by the relay nodes (10) in the immediately preceding (final) layer while treating any remaining received signals as noise. As a result, only those relay nodes (10) most likely to significantly contribute to and improve the signal quality of traffic data received at the destination node (10D) are selected as relay nodes (10) for a particular source-destination node pair.
摘要:
Systems and methods for computing and/or utilizing mutual information based link metrics for a link in a wireless mesh network are disclosed. In one embodiment, one or more mutual information values are computed for a link between a transmitter of a first network node and a receiver of a second network node in a wireless mesh network. Each of the one or more mutual information values is computed for a different hypothesized transmission mode for the link. One or more link metrics for the link are computed as a function of the mutual information values, where each link metric is computed based on a different one of the one or more mutual information values. In this manner, a link metric is computed for each of the one or more hypothesized transmission modes for the link. At least one of the link metrics are then provided to a routing update module.
摘要:
In a Coordinated Multi-point (CoMP) system, the base station (BS) in each serving cell (or sector) is allowed to use not only its own antennas, but also the antennas of neighboring BSs to transmit to mobile terminals in the serving cell to form a floating CoMP cell. The serving BS in each floating CoMP cell computes tentative linear precoding weights for transmissions from the coordinating BSs in the floating CoMP cell to users in the serving cell of the floating CoMP cell. The serving BS determines the power availability for transmit antennas in the floating CoMP cell that are shared with other floating CoMP cells, and scales the tentative precoding weights based on the power availability of the shared transmit antennas to determine final precoding weights so that the power constraints of the shared transmit antennas will not be violated.
摘要:
A wireless communication device uses a time-invariant delay-Doppler channel response estimate for received signal demodulation. The device provides coherent signal demodulation by accounting for frequency and time selectivity in a land-based mobile communication environment, which arise mainly because of delay and Doppler shifts, respectively. In one embodiment, the wireless communication device includes a channel estimator that estimates channel response in a wireless communication network by estimating a delay-Doppler response of a wireless communication channel to obtain a delay-Doppler channel response estimate and converting the delay-Doppler channel response estimate to a time-varying channel response estimate, e.g., a time-varying frequency or impulse response. The delay-Doppler response may be estimated in a continuous or discrete domain. In one embodiment, the channel estimator includes a delay-Doppler correlator that measures the delay-Doppler response by observing a response of a wireless communication channel to a pilot signal and converting the observed response to a delay-Doppler domain.