Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090083601 | DATA TRANSMISSION WITH HARQ AND INTERFERENCE MITIGATION - Techniques for transmitting data with hybrid automatic retransmission (HARQ) and interference mitigation are described. In one design, a transmitter processes a packet of data in accordance with a rate and sends at least one transmission of the packet to a receiver with HARQ. In one design, the transmitter sends a trigger message to the receiver to trigger the receiver to send a request to reduce interference to interfering station(s). The transmitter may send a first transmission of the packet (i) after the trigger message, e.g., in consecutive frames of a single HARQ interlace, or (ii) along with the trigger message in the same frame. The number of transmissions to send for the packet may be dependent on whether the interfering station(s) reduce interference to the receiver. The packet transmission may terminate early if interference mitigation is successful or may terminate late if interference mitigation is unsuccessful. | 03-26-2009 |
20090086758 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CONNECTIONCLOSE MESSAGE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving ConnectionClose message in a wireless communication system, the method characterized in that generating a ConnectionClose message characterized in that a 8 bit messageID field, a 3 bit CloseReason field, a 1 bit SuspendEnable field, a SuspendTime field and a 4 bit RegistrationRadiusFlag field, wherein the CloseReason field indicates the CloseReason by the sender, the SuspendTime field indicates the absolute system time of the end of its suspend period in units of superframes, the RegistrationRadiusFlag field indicates the RegistrationRadiusFlag which is public data of the Active Set Management Protocol. | 04-02-2009 |
20090147730 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A REDIRECT MESSAGE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method of transmitting a Redirect message in a wireless communication system is described. A Redirect message is generated comprising an 8 bit MessageID field, a 16 bit StayAwayDuration field wherein the StayAwayDuration field indicates the units of second for which an access terminal will not make an access attempt at the sector sending this message, an 8 bit NumChannel field wherein the NumChannel indicates the number of channel records included in the message, an 8 bit RedirectReason field wherein the RedirectReason reflect the redirect reason and a Channel field wherein the Channel field indicates the channel that the access terminal should reacquire. The Redirect message is transmitted over a communication link. | 06-11-2009 |
20090164609 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING CONFIGURATION ATTRIBUTES USING FASTREPAGE ATTRIBUTE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method and apparatus for updating configuration attributes by transmitting a FastRepage Attribute in a wireless communication system is provided, comprising generating a FastRepage Attribute comprising an 8 bit Length field wherein the Length field indicates a value of length of the FastRepage attribute in octets excluding the length of Length field, an 8 bit AttributeID field, an 8 bit FastRepageEnabled field wherein the FastRepageEnabled field is set to a value ‘0×01’ to indicate that FastRepage is enabled and a 16 bit FastRepageInterval field, wherein the FastRepageInterval field indicates a value of interval at which an access network pages an access terminal when the access network does not receive a response to a page and transmitting the FastRepage attribute over a communication link. A method and apparatus is further provided for receiving and processing the FastRepage attribute. | 06-25-2009 |
20090176503 | FLEXIBLE MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL (MAC) FOR AD HOC DEPLOYED WIRELESS NETWORKS - Systems and methods are disclosed that facilitate wireless communication using resource utilization messages (RUMs), in accordance with various aspects. A RUM may be generated for a first node, such as an access point or an access terminal, to indicate that a first predetermined threshold has been met or exceeded. The RUM may be weighted to indicate a degree to which a second predetermined threshold has been exceeded. The first and/or second predetermined thresholds may be associated with various parameters associated with the node, such as latency, throughput, data rate, spectral efficiency, carrier-to-interference ratio, interference-over-thermal level, etc. The RUM may then be transmitted to one or more other nodes to indicate a level of disadvantage experienced by the first node. | 07-09-2009 |
20090221305 | A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING A QUICKPAGE BLOCK IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method and apparatus for processing a QuickPaging block in a wireless communication system are described. A QuickPaging block is received and it is determined if the QuickPaging block is with full access terminal identifier (ATI) results. | 09-03-2009 |
20090279563 | SIGNALING SEPARATE UNICAST AND BROADCAST INFORMATION WITH A COMMON PILOT - Aspects describe conveying unicast information and broadcast information in a resource set for a transmission request. The unicast information and broadcast information can be transmitted at substantially the same time. Power control can be applied separately to the unicast information and the broadcast information for reliable decoding. A null request can be indicated by “00” bits in a unicast portion and a zero power level in the broadcast portion. | 11-12-2009 |
20100118793 | COMMUNICATIONS METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATED TO PATITIONED TRAFFIC SEGMENTS - Methods and apparatus related to partitioning traffic segments are described. An access router, having concurrent connections with two access terminals and desiring to transmit traffic signals to the two access terminals in the same traffic segment, partitions a traffic segment. The partition is such that a first portion of the traffic segment is allocated to a first access terminal and a second portion of the traffic segment is allocated to the second access terminal. Control information, e.g., identifying partition portion assignments, data rate and/or coding information, is also communicated in the traffic segment as in-band control signaling. An access terminal, to which some of traffic signals are directed, receives and recovers the in-band control signaling, identifying its allocated partition portion of the traffic segment and identifying data rate and/or coding information used. The access terminal receives the traffic segment signals in its allocated partition portion and recovers the traffic information. | 05-13-2010 |
20100118794 | PARTITIONED TRAFFIC SEGMENT COMMUNICATIONS METHODS AND APPARATUS - Methods and apparatus related to partitioning traffic segments are described. An access router, having concurrent connections with two access terminals, each desiring to transmit traffic signals to the access router in the same traffic segment, partitions a traffic segment. The partition is such that a first portion of the traffic segment is allocated to a first access terminal and a second portion of the traffic segment is allocated to the second access terminal. Control information, e.g., conveying partition information, is communicated to access terminals prior to the traffic segment. In some embodiments, the partition information is communicated as part of a transmission request response signal, e.g., via phase of the request response signal. An access terminal which has been allocated a traffic segment partition portion identifies is allocation from the transmitted control information, and subsequently transmits traffic signals to the access router in its allocated portion of the traffic segment. | 05-13-2010 |
20100120372 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULING USING QUALITY OF SERVICE INFORMATION IN A PEER TO PEER NETWORK - Methods and apparatus well suited to decentralized traffic scheduling in wireless peer to peer network are described. An individual wireless terminal corresponding to a peer to peer connection makes a transmitter yielding or receiver yielding decision for a traffic slot. Quality of service information is disseminated as part of the scheduling control signaling. A scheduling control signal, e.g., a traffic transmission request signal or a traffic transmission request response signal, includes a pilot portion and a quality of service information portion. The pilot facilitates the recovery of the quality of service information by a plurality of different devices which may have different channel conditions with respect to the transmitter of the scheduling control signal. The different devices may benefit from utilizing the recovered quality of service information in making a yielding decision regarding traffic signaling in a traffic segment. | 05-13-2010 |
20100142365 | BEACON CODING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate transmitting beacon symbols of a beacon message such that a sequence of symbols can satisfy a linear constraint over a field where the field elements can be identified with carriers. In this regard, a coding scheme can be applied to a beacon message; the coding scheme can produce a plurality of beacon symbols to transmit on given subcarriers. A receiving device of the beacon symbols can decode a beacon message by receiving less than the total number of symbols in a beacon message and determining the remaining symbol subcarriers based on the linear constraint. Thus, more efficient decoding of beacons is facilitated as well as resolving beacon ambiguity by figuring out which symbols satisfy linear constraints for the symbols, and resolving time and frequency shift by detecting an offset that would result in satisfaction of the linear constraint. | 06-10-2010 |
20100195585 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SCHEDULING AMONG NODES FOR A DATA SLOT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A method of scheduling among a plurality of nodes may include performing a first sequence of steps followed by a second sequence of steps, each sequence including a Tx step followed by a Rx step. During the Tx step, a node may send a REQ signal containing a request to transmit. During the Rx step, another node may receive the request signal, and respond by sending a confirmation signal indicating an acceptation or a declination of the REQ signal. The REQ signal includes a unicast portion and a broadcast portion. In an uplink mode of the slot, the responding nodes may use the unicast portion of the REQ signal to send supplemental information, in addition to the indication of the acceptation or the declination of the REQ signal. | 08-05-2010 |
20100195626 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR USER SELECTION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A method of scheduling data transmission in a wireless network is disclosed. The wireless network includes an access router and a plurality of access terminals connectable to the base station. The method includes determining a number of the access terminals that are connected to the base station, and comparing the number with a threshold. The method further includes determining, based on the comparison between the number of connected access terminals and the threshold, whether to send a dedicated control signal or a shared control signal from the base station, in order indicate which ones of the plurality of access terminals are scheduled to transmit data during a slot. | 08-05-2010 |
20100198953 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING CONTENTION AMONG NODES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method of managing contention in a wireless network is described. The wireless network may include an access router and a plurality of access terminals connectable to the base station. The method may include designating a data slot as a downlink slot or an uplink slot, and sending a signal from the access router to the access terminals to indicate the designation of the data slot. The access router may determine whether the data slot should be designated as a downlink slot or an uplink slot by assessing information such QoS (quality of service) requirements contained in a REQ message received from one or more of the access terminals, and information regarding buffer level received from one or more of the access terminals. | 08-05-2010 |
20100260133 | FLEXIBLE MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL (MAC) FOR AD HOC DEPLOYED WIRELESS NETWORKS - Systems and methods are disclosed that facilitate wireless communication using resource utilization messages (RUMs), in accordance with various aspects. A RUM may be generated for a first node, such as an access point or an access terminal, to indicate that a first predetermined threshold has been met or exceeded. The RUM may be weighted to indicate a degree to which a second predetermined threshold has been exceeded. The first and/or second predetermined thresholds may be associated with various parameters associated with the node, such as latency, throughput, data rate, spectral efficiency, carrier-to-interference ratio, interference-over-thermal level, etc. The RUM may then be transmitted to one or more other nodes to indicate a level of disadvantage experienced by the first node. | 10-14-2010 |