Abstract:
A method for operating a base station is provided. The method includes in response to a triggering event, fetching information on a base station (BS) configuration parameters comprising a location, a height, an antenna pattern, and topographical details surrounding the BS; determining the BS configuration parameters that are error prone and require re-estimation; obtain measurement reports created by at least one user equipment (UE); determining an audit method to perform an audit correction, the audit correction based on the one or more of the BS configuration parameters to re-estimate, available BS information and the measurement reports; performing the audit correction, to obtain a result based on a computed score for each candidate value of the BS configuration parameters; generating, based on the result, one or more corrective actions; and adjusting at least one of the BS configuration parameters based on the one or more corrective actions.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a pre 5G or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4G communication system such as LTE. A method for operating a large scale antenna array in a wireless communication system includes receiving one or more signals. The one or more signals include information for beamforming to a plurality of user equipments (UEs) using a full-dimensional multiple-input multiple-output (FD-MIMO) beamforming scheme. The FD-MIMO beamforming scheme includes same time resources and same frequency resources that are co-scheduled to the plurality of UEs. The method further includes identifying a time delay of the one or more signals associated with one or more antenna arrays that are distributed in the large scale antenna array and performing a multi-user (MU) joint beamforming on the one or more signals to one or more UEs.
Abstract:
A method for determining a bit pattern of a symbol in a wireless communication system using a cross modulation scheme. The method includes generating symbols with the cross modulation scheme, classifying positions of coding symbols by reliabilities of at least 3 classes according to an average bit error rate BER(ave) of symbols generated with the cross modulation scheme and a bit error rate BER based on transmission positions of the coding symbols in a modulation symbol during transmission of a packet with the cross modulation scheme, and determining a bit pattern such that higher-priority symbols are inserted into higher-reliability positions.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A core network entity (CNE) can predict received signal strength values for base station (BS). In response to a triggering event, the CNE fetches information on BS configuration parameters, including at least one of: a BS class, a BS location, a BS height, an orientation of the BS, a BS antenna pattern, and topographical details surrounding the BS.
Abstract:
A method for performing mobility load balancing includes receiving, at a server, current load data for a plurality of cells of a wireless communication network, selecting, from the plurality of cells, a target cell (s), wherein a value of the current load data for the target cell exceeds a first predefined threshold, and selecting, from a neighbor cell list corresponding to the target cell, a set of neighboring cells for the target cell. The method further includes calculating, a value of at least one utilization parameter for the target cell, determining, a CIO value and an E-tilt value for the target cell based on the value of the at least one utilization parameter for the target cell and configuring one or more physical layer parameters of the target cell based on the determined CIO and E-tilt values for the target cell.
Abstract:
Apparatuses and methods for identifying network anomalies. A method includes determining a cumulative anomaly score over a predefined time range based on a subset of historical PM samples and determining an anomaly ratio of a first time window and a second time window, based on the cumulative anomaly score. The method also includes determining one or more anomaly events coinciding with CM parameter changes based on the anomaly ratio; collating the PM, alarm, and CM data into a combined data set based on matching fields and timestamps; generating a set of rules linking one or more CM parameter changes and the collated data to anomaly events; and generating root cause explanations for CM parameter changes that are linked to anomaly events.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5 th -Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4 th -Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Channel quality indicator (CQI) and precoding feedback from a terminal includes receiving reference signals from a base station, generating channel information based on the reference signals, and, transmitting the channel information. The channel information comprises at least one of a Channel quality indicator (CQI), a first vertical-precoding matrix indicator (V-PMI) and a first horizontal-precoding matrix indicator (H-PMI).
Abstract:
Apparatuses and methods for indicating and performing interference measurements. A method for performing interference measurements includes identifying a CSI-IM configuration for the UE to perform interference measurement. The method includes determining whether the CSI-IM configuration includes a subset of a total number of frequency resources configured for CSI-IM in the wireless communication system. The method includes measuring interference based on the identified CSI-IM configuration. Additionally, the method includes sending feedback based on the measured interference. The method for performing interference measurements may also include determining whether to perform interference measurements based on all downlink subframes or only a portion of the downlink subframes. Additionally, the method may include performing interference measurement based on the subframe determination.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for circular buffer-based rate matching and burst multiplexing for data transmission. According to the method and apparatus, rate matching patterns are efficiently determined according to data code rates in a wireless communication system using CBRM, and burst multiplexing is performed in units of bits without using an external channel interleaver when several RLC data blocks are transmitted via radio blocks. Accordingly, data bits are distributed into and carried by a plurality of bursts, thereby improving transmission performance.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for generating a TSC in a communication system are provided, in which a pair of sequences A and B having auto-correlation and cross-correlation properties are generated and the TSC is generated by inserting guard sequences Z each having z zero symbols in the most significant bits of the sequences A and B.