136 results about "Link budget" patented technology

A method and apparatus for adaptive beam-steering are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises performing adaptive beam steering using multiple transmit and receive antennas, including iteratively performing a pair of training sequences, wherein the pair of training sequences includes estimating a transmitter antenna-array weight vector and a receiver antenna-array weight vector.

A wireless communication system includes at least one repeater antenna assembly for providing adequate RF coverage within a building, such as a home. An example repeater antenna assembly has an automatically adjustable gain that is controlled responsive to a pathloss associated with a received signal to avoid base station transceiver desensitization and positive feedback. A disclosed assembly avoids base station desensitization and positive feedback. Another disclosed technique maintains a selected minimum link budget within the building.

Enhanced random access procedures for link-budget-limited user equipment (UE) devices are disclosed. A user equipment device may transmit a first message containing a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH). The PRACH contains instances of a Zadoff-Chu sequence, and may be transmitted repeatedly as part of a single random attempt, to facilitate correlation data combining at the base station. The available Zadoff-Chu sequences may be partitioned among a plurality of sets, each set being associated with a respective Doppler shift range (or frequency hop pattern or time repetition pattern). A UE device may signal Doppler shift (or other information) to the base station by selection of one of the sets. The first PRACH transmission and the following PRACH transmission may occur in consecutive subframes. A UE device may select from a special set of Zadoff-Chu sequences (different from a conventional set of sequences), to signal its status as a link-budget-limited device.

A med and apparatus is provided that allows M transceivers to transmit/receive using M2^N distinct beams using passive beam steering. This provides for the use of arbitrary narrow beams with a number of transceivers that is a fraction of the number of beams but ensures 360° coverage. In other words it permits significant improvements in the link budget with a minimal rise in the cost of the BS. The apparatus includes M distribution switches applied 2^N passive beam forming networks each coupled to M antennas. The method and apparatus ate compatible with TDMA in the downlink and in the uplink.

An air interface for use with a mobile satellite system that extends the baseline LTE interface modulation and coding from 3GPP. The LTE OFDM and S-FDMA technologies are used in the lowest FDD E-UTRA assigned bandwidth of 1.4 MHz but can be extended up to 7 other bands. The key differentiator for S-LTE from LTE would be the use of 32-ary Amplitude Phase Shift Keying (32-APSK) in the uplink channel for S-FDMA with LDPC and turbo coding and 64-QAM in the downlink channel for OFDM with LDPC and turbo coding. This new mechanism for S-LTE with new combination of coding will allow a robust channel model for S-LTE air interface and will enable the S-LTE air interface to have an efficient link budget. The S-LTE air interface of the present invention can be implemented in 700 MHz, 1.5 GHz, 2.1 GHz and 2.6 GHz bands or any future bands allocated for the specific air interface.

Mechanisms enabling link-budget-limited (LBL) devices to more effectively perform random access may include: (1) broadcasting a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) configuration index (PCI) reserved for LBL devices; (2) configuring LBL devices to use a PCI that is offset from the conventional PCI of current cell; (3) configuring LBL devices to transmit PRACH messages using an alternative set of subframes, different from conventionally-defined subframe set; (4) configuring LBL devices to transmit PRACH messages on odd frames when the conventional PRACH configuration specifies even frames; (5) configuring LBL devices to generate and use extra PRACH preambles that are not used by non-LBL devices; (6) configuring LBL devices to use group B preambles while non-LBL devices are configured to use group A preambles; and (7) boosting power of a random access response message after an N^th random access failure with preamble conforming to an LBL-reserved pattern of preambles.

A method and system for achieving a link budget improvement in a diverse OFDM radio system by addressing the timing misalignment issue that can occur due to the differences in propagation time in signals between mobile stations and Radio Access Nodes. Timing misalignment is shared or split between the primary path to a primary Radio Access Node and a diverse path to a diverse Radio Access Node. The relative timing offsets between mobile stations are adjusted, the mobile stations are grouped into zones using a variety of different grouping techniques, and the transmission for each mobile station is scheduled, using one or more of a variety of scheduling techniques.

Base on different types of service in each region of system, the method allows TD-SCDMA system configures different numbers of time slots for upward and downward services for the region smartly. The said method is only applied to adjacent sub zones in configuration area, where there are different numbers of time slots for upward and downward services. Based on link estimation of investigated user device, and result report for measured channel power of interference signal up or down link, network controller determines whether a time slot is assigned to the investigated user device in order to reduce mutual interference between adjacent sub zones with different service time slots being configured. The network controller also carries out periodic monitoring for switching number inside sub zone in the said two adjacent sub zones in order to overcome influence on channel allocation caused by time varying character of interference signal so as to optimize allocation and raise capacity.

Various mechanisms for paging link-budget-limited (LBL) devices are disclosed, including: (1) transmitting paging message with non-conventional paging identifier; (2) transmitting paging message(s) with increased power; (3) repeating transmission of paging message to support combining at receiver. Various mechanisms for UE device to signal LBL status are disclosed, including, transmitting status flag or special value of DRX cycle to network node as part of tracking area update and/or attach request. The network node informs a base station of the device's LBL status as part of a paging message. (The network node may, e.g., assign an S-RNTI to the LBL device from a reserved subset of S-RNTI space.) The base station invokes a paging enhancement mechanism when paging an LBL device. Alternatively, the base station may page UE devices without knowledge of LBL status, e.g., by counting paging attempts for a given UE, and boosting power after the N^th paging attempt.

Enhancements in optical beam propagation performance can be realized through the utilization of ultra-short pulse laser (USPL) sources for laser transmit platforms, which are can be used throughout the telecommunication network infrastructure fabric. One or more of the described and illustrated features of USPL free space-optical (USPL-FSO) laser communications can be used in improving optical propagation through the atmosphere, for example by mitigating optical attenuation and scintillation effects, thereby enhancing effective system availability as well as link budget considerations, as evidenced through experimental studies and theoretical calculations between USPL and fog related atmospheric events.

Devices and methods of enhanced coverage (EC) paging are generally described. An evolved Node-B (eNB) may transmit multiple EC paging messages to user equipment (UE) over at least one paging cycle. Each EC paging message may contain the same paging information. The UE may combine the individual EC paging messages to achieve a predetermined link budget and subsequently may decode the EC combined paging message to determine whether the combined paging message is directed to the UE. The EC paging messages may contain information for more than one UE and a legacy P-RNTI or a specific P-RNTI for EC mode UEs. The EC paging messages may be transmitted in legacy occasions over several paging cycles or non-legacy paging occasions over one or more paging cycles. The EC paging messages may be transmitted in continuous or non-continuous subframes in a particular paging cycle.

To facilitate GPS hardware selection and evaluate performance of vehicle integrated GPS hardware, including various types of GPS antennas and receivers, within different vehicle operating environments, embodiments of the invention are used to provide a simulator which does not require physical GPS hardware to simulate GPS system performance. Preferably, the simulator randomly generates one or more GPS system link budget variables, within predetermined performance bounds, in order to predict GPS system performance in a specific vehicle operating environment for a given antenna radiation pattern and/or GPS receiver. The simulator employs a Monte Carlo technique to evaluate the GPS system performance based on generated pools of link budget variables.

Techniques are disclosed relating to broadcasting and receiving system information in a radio access network (RAN). In one embodiment, a base station includes at least one antenna, at least one radio, configured to perform cellular communication using a radio access technology (RAT), and one or more processors coupled to the radio. In this embodiment, the base station is configured to broadcast first system information blocks (SIBs) encoded using a first coding rate and a first identifier. In this embodiment, the base station is also configured to broadcast second SIBs encoded using a second coding rate that is lower than the first coding rate and a second identifier. In this embodiment, the second SIBs include only a portion of the information included in the first SIBs and the second SIBs are usable by user equipment devices (UEs) having a limited link budget to determine access parameters for the base station.

For paging user devices that are link budget limited (LBL), a base station transmits a special ID that is used by said devices to identify a paging frame and/or a paging occasion. When transmitting a paging message for an LBL device, the base station may use: (a) larger aggregation and larger CFI (than conventionally allowed) and (b) a larger number of resource blocks (than conventionally allowed) for paging payload. If paging messages for LBL devices saturate the paging frame capacity, the base station may allocate a plurality of special IDs. If paging messages for LBL devices and/or other data transfers saturate network capacity, at least a subset of the LBL devices may be directed to enter a connected-state discontinuous reception (DRX) mode, wherein those devices will remain in connected mode and periodically check for resource allocations. Paging payload information may be repeatedly transmitted in successive subframes, to support soft combining.

The invention discloses a method and a device for detecting broadband power. The method comprises the following steps: using a channel selection circuit to perform switch polling on a radio-frequency channel comprising radio-frequency signals to be measured; for each polled radio-frequency channel, according to the scheduled background number, outputting local oscillator signals corresponding to scheduled carriers of the radio-frequency signals to be measured of the radio-frequency channel by a broadband phase-locked loop; and performing power detection on the radio-frequency signals to be measured of the radio-frequency channel by performing scheduled processing on the local oscillator signals and the radio-frequency signals to be measured corresponding to the local oscillator signals. Through the technical scheme, the detection of a multi-band broadband is achieved, the development cost and the link budget are saved, and the precision and the application range of the power detection are effectively improved.

This disclosure relates to accommodating link budget constrained wireless devices performing random access procedures. A base station may detect a preamble message from a wireless device. It may be determined that the preamble message is received from a link budget constrained wireless device. Characteristics of a response message may be selected based at least in part on determining that the preamble message is received from a link budget constrained wireless device. The response message may be transmitted to the link budget constrained wireless device using the selected characteristics.

A system and method for reception mode switching in a dual-carrier fixed wireless backhaul network is disclosed. The primary carrier is a licensed band. The secondary carrier may be an unlicensed or shared carrier. Multi-mode Remote Backhaul Modules (RBMs) comprise a first RF chain with antenna elements for RX/TX on the primary carrier and a second RF chain with antenna elements for RX/TX on the secondary carrier. The Multi-mode RBMs adaptively switch from one reception mode to another with resource borrowing of RF and antenna elements, e.g. the secondary carrier RF chain and antenna elements can be borrowed for the primary carrier, for better reception capability for the primary carrier, reducing the number of link-budget and interference-challenged RBMs, and improving system performance. The system may comprise a dual carrier and single carrier MIMO system with variable antenna topology, having flexibility to switch dynamically between different operational modes depending on performance metrics.

Mechanisms are disclosed for improved transmission of uplink control information by a user equipment (UE) that is link budget limited. In one embodiment, the UE transmits a message to the base station indicating that the UE is link budget limited. In response to the message, the base station sends an uplink grant to the UE, enabling the UE to transmit uplink control information on the physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) instead of on the Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH). In another embodiment, the base station sends an uplink grant to a link-budget-limited UE each time downlink traffic is transmitted to the UE, enabling the UE to send ACK/NACK feedback on the PUSCH instead of the PUCCH. In another embodiment, the UE transmits a scheduling request (SR) to the base station as part of a random access procedure, enabling the SR to be transmitted on the PUSCH instead of the PUCCH.

A method and apparatus is described for providing rate adaptation between a first node and a second node in a data communication environment employing bit stuffing and having a link budget of B bits per second. One or more N-sized frames of user data are randomized at the first node according to a predetermined random sequence to produce randomized N-sized frames which are then de-randomized at the second node according to the random sequence. N is the size of the N-sized frames in bits. Occurrences of a flag sequence related event is detected for in the N-sized frames after randomizing, and up to n bits are inserted in the N-sized frames according to a bit stuffing protocol. By performing randomizing before inserting, n and N are selected such that n+N does not exceed B. The bits are then removed such that de-randomizing can be performed. Randomizing includes combining N-sized frames with a random sequence and de-randomizing includes uncombining the N-sized frames with the random sequence. Alternatively, one or more random sequences may be used in randomizing and de-randomizing. Inserting up to n bits further includes determining a distribution of stuffing bits n according to h(n,N) for the N-sized frames such that n and N are selected so that n+N does not exceed B.

A wireless communication device (UE) may identify a data flow type associated with data packets to be wirelessly transmitted by the wireless communication device over a wireless network during uplink communications. The UE may determine, based on the data flow type, whether to perform header compression for the data packets on a default bearer assigned to the wireless communication device and associated with the data flow for wireless communications over the wireless network. The UE may perform packet header compression for data flow types for which the packet header size is at least a specified percentage of the total packet size. Packet header compression on the default bearer may be enabled at all times, in which case the UE may indicate to the network whether the UE supports header compression on the default bearer. Alternately, the UE may trigger header compression on the default bearer based on application requirements.

The invention discloses a method and device for predicting and analyzing WLAN sites. The method includes: acquiring the network coverage of an existing network; analyzing, to be more specific, acquiring the data business distribution of each base station in the network, and acquiring a grid-level data business density distribution diagram according to the data business distribution and the networkcoverage; identifying hot spot regions according to the grid-level data business density distribution diagram, and acquiring one or more candidate WLAN sites according to the hot spot regions; selecting the WLAN sites according to a WLAN capacity-coverage model and a link budget module, the grid-level data business density distribution diagram, an existing network business shunt proportion, and the peripheral geographical environment and user distribution of each candidate WLAN sites. The method for predicting and analyzing the WLAN sites is low in cost, little in artificial participation, widely applicable, high in precision and the like.