Sun Patent Trust

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Panasonic Corporation

Jan Ohlhorst

Michael Einhaus

Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart

Joachim Loehr

Prateek Basu Mallick

Masayuki Hoshino

Christian Wengerter

The present disclosure relates to transmitting transport blocks in subframes of a predefined length within a wireless communication system. A downlink control information including a resource grant comprising a predetermined modulation and a predetermined transport block size is received (user equipment is the transmitter) or generated (base station is the transmitter). Then transport block including channel coded data to be transmitted in a subframe with the predetermined modulation and the predetermined transport block size is generated. Sensing is performed in the subframes and based thereon, it is determined whether a partial subframe or a complete subframe is available for transmission of the generated transport block. Finally, the transport block is transmitted with a modified modulation different from the predetermined modulation if the partial rather than complete subframe is available. Correspondingly, at the receiver, the grant is received (user equipment is receiver) or generated (base station is the receiver), the size of the subframe in which the reception is expected is determined and then the transport block is received with a modified modulation if only the partial subframe is available.

Modulation order adaptation for partial subframes

The invention relates to a radio base station or user equipment for scheduling respectively performing uplink transmissions via an unlicensed cell configured between the user equipment and the radio base station. The UE can perform an uplink transmission via the unlicensed cell according to at least the following types. A first type spans a complete subframe duration and starts and ends at subframe boundaries followed by the UE. A second type spans a complete subframe duration and includes an additional time offset with respect to the subframe boundaries followed by the UE. A third type spans less than a complete subframe duration and includes an additional time offset with respect to the subframe boundaries followed by the UE. The UEs perform uplink transmissions according to one of the types in such a manner that at least between two directly-subsequent uplink transmissions a time gap with no uplink transmission occurs.

Uplink transmissions in unlicensed cells with additional transmission timing offsets

The present disclosure relates to a method for transmitting and receiving a beamformed data transmission transmitted from a radio base station to a user equipment over an unlicensed band. The data transmission is transmitted by the radio base station within one or more resource blocks of a subframe, each resource block being composed of a plurality of resource elements. The beamformed data transmission is generated by the radio base station by 1) applying a first precoding for generating a beam directionality towards the user equipment to a subset of all the resource elements used for transmitting the data transmission in the subframe, and 2) applying a second precoding, different from the first precoding, to the remaining resource elements used for transmitting the data transmission in the subframe so as to achieve a radiation pattern different from the beam directionality towards the user equipment.

PDSCH precoding adaptation for LTE in unlicensed bands

A method is described for scheduling a plurality of data flows to a plurality of shared channels in a wireless communication system transmitting data packets in time intervals of frames and applying adaptive modulation and coding. The method comprises the steps of determining virtual link adaptation parameters for at least a part of all combinations of data flow and shared channel, based on state information from the respective shared channel, and based on Quality of Service requirements for the respective data flow; calculating potential data rates for said combinations of data flow and shared channel, based on said virtual link adaptation parameters; calculating priority values for said combinations of data flow and shared channel, based on said potential data rates; and selecting, based on the calculated priority values, for at least a part of the shared channels, a data flow for which data is to be transmitted on each of these shared channel during the time interval of one frame.

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