Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

St-ericsson Sa

Optis Circuit Technology, LLC

Liping Zhang

Wei Wang

Zhixun Tang

Xie Li

Jie Chen

Gerardo Agni Medina Acosta

Daijun Zhang

Qingyu Miao

Yuan Wang

Jing Yan Ma

Kazuyoshi Uesaka

Pu Yao

Ola Lundqvist

Baicheng Xu

The present application generally relates to wireless communication technology. More particularly, the present application relates to a method and apparatus for scheduling delay associated with HARQ processes in LTE-MTC. The present application also relates to computer program product adapted for the same purpose. According to one embodiment, a method for scheduling delay associated with HARQ processes in LTE-MTC comprises: —a) in response to presence or non-presence of PUCCH repetition, invalid BL/CE DL subframe, invalid BL/CE UL subframe, and measurement gap, determining a HARQ-ACK scheduling counting strategy; and —b) scheduling a HARQ-ACK delay value in accordance with the HARQ-ACK scheduling counting strategy.

Method, apparatus and computer program product for scheduling delay associated with HARQ processes in LTE-MTC

Methods, a network node, a wireless device, and computer readable storage medium for 16-QAM based communication are disclosed. A method includes: determining a resource allocation for 16-QAM based communication for the wireless device; and indicating, to the wireless device, a TBS and/or a number of allocated time-domain resources that are associated with the determined resource allocation using a TBS index and a time-domain resource index, wherein the TBS index and the time-domain resource index are determined in accordance with a table for allocating transport blocks and/or number of allocated time-domain resources for the 16-QAM based communication.

Methods, network node, wireless device, media for 16-QAM based communication

A method implemented by a network device in a communication network is provided. The network device is operable to communicate with a User Equipment UE and a Narrow Band Internet Of Things NB-IoT terminal device in the communication network. Said method may comprise configuring NB-IoT Physical Resource Blocks PRBs. Said method may further comprise when scheduling said UE, if said configured NB-IoT PRBs have not been allocated to said NB-IoT terminal device and if available PRBs other than said configured NB-IOT PRBs are not enough for said UE, attempting to allocate said configured NB-IoT PRBs for said UE. A network device performing said method is also provided. Further, a communication network comprising said network device is also provided.

Method and a device for sharing resource

The embodiment of the invention discloses a channel estimation method for a TD-SCDMA system. The channel estimation method comprises steps of: obtaining a coarse channel estimation of a channel 1 of an intra-frequency cell set by a single cell channel estimation algorithm; performing an interference cancellation on the coarse channel estimation to obtain a channel estimation; determining a channel environment according to the channel estimation; and determining a stop strategy for the interference cancellation according to the channel environment and controlling performing the interference cancellation according to the stop strategy. The embodiment of the invention also discloses a channel estimation apparatus for a TD-SCDMA system, a communication device and a computer program executing the channel estimation method.

Channel estimation method, channel estimation apparatus and communication device for CDMA systems

The present invention provides a method and a device for detecting a secondary synchronous signal, a computer program and a storage medium. The method comprises: Step S: extracting a first SSS sequence from a received signal according a PSS detection result; Step S: performing rotation on the first SSS sequence, to obtain at least two second sequences including the first SSS sequence, channel paths corresponding to the at least two second sequences being located within a channel window in a time domain; Step S: calculating a channel estimation result of each of the second sequences corresponding to each of SSS standard sequences; Step S: selecting, according to the channel estimation result, valid channel paths corresponding to the respective SSS standard sequence from the channel paths corresponding to the second sequences; Step S: calculating a signal-to-noise ratio corresponding to the respective SSS standard sequence according to the valid channel paths corresponding to the respective SSS standard sequence; and Step S: determining a cell ID according to the SSS standard sequence corresponding to a maximum signal-to-noise ratio. According to the present invention, it is able to improve the accuracy of the SSS detection.

Method and device for detecting secondary synchronous signal, computer program and storage medium

The embodiment of the invention discloses a method, device and computer program for denoising in channel estimation. The method comprises steps of: calculating a noise power value and a power value of each path in each user window based on a channel estimation result, the user window is referred to channel impulse response window corresponding to this user; calculating a denoising threshold factor based on the noise power value and the power value of each path in each user window; calculating a denoising threshold value based on the noise power value and the denoising threshold factor; and performing a denoising processing on the channel estimation result by using the denoising threshold value.

Method and device for denoising in channel estimation, and corresponding computer program and computer readable storage medium

A method, apparatus, receiver, computer program and storage medium for joint detection are disclosed. The joint detection method includes categorizing interference signals based on level of interference so as to obtain a strong interference signal, cancelling the strong interference signal from a received signal, and performing a joint detection by utilizing a matched filtering result of a remaining signal. In one embodiment, it is to firstly determine whether a strong interference codes corresponding to an intra-frequency adjacent cell exists in an active code list or not, recovering a strong interference signal transmitted by a Node B if the strong interference codes exists, applying an interference cancellation to a received signal received by a receiver so as to obtain a matched filtering result of a remaining signal derived by subtracting the strong interference signal from the received signal, performing a joint detection by utilizing the matched filtering result of the remaining signal, and outputting a demodulated result. In at least one embodiment, the computation complexity of the joint detection is reduced, and the accuracy of the joint detection is improved.

Method, apparatus, receiver, computer program and storage medium for joint detection

The present invention relates a method, apparatus, receiver, computer program for joint detection. In the method, it is firstly determined if whether a number of original active codes is beyond a predefined threshold or not, and when the number of the original active codes is beyond the predefined threshold and a strong interference code exists in the active codes corresponding to intra-frequency adjacent cells, it is to apply an interference cancellation to a receive signal, cancel MAI caused by a strong interference signal corresponding to the strong interference code, and perform a joint detection by utilizing a matched filtering result of a remaining signal after the interference cancellation for the joint detection. According to at least one embodiment of the present invention, when there is large interference in the intra-frequency adjacent cells and the number of the active codes is beyond a maximum threshold, the joint detection performance is improved.

A method for performing joint detection includes adjusting a ranking order of codes in a matched filtering result, and a ranking order of column vectors in a system submatrix according to the power. The joint detection is performed using an adjusted matched filtering result and an adjusted system submatrix, and acquires demodulated signals corresponding to the codes. The codes that have high power will be demodulated first. This ensures accuracy of demodulation, inhibits erroneous propagation effect, and improves accuracy of the joint detection.

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