Qualcomm Incorporated

Ntt Docomo, Inc.

Other

Nokia Corporation

Minghai Feng

Neng Wang

Jilei Hou

Peter S Gaal

Hao Xu

Chao Wei

Jiming Guo

Lan Chen

Xiaoming She

Wanshi Chen

Yuan Zhu

Juejia Zhou

Song Zhu

Wenbo Wang

Mugen Peng

Dong Liang

Yong Bai

Wujie Hu

A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus determines an interference type between a time division duplex (TDD) configuration subframe of a serving cell and a corresponding TDD configuration subframe of a neighboring cell, and sets a transmit power for an apparatus in the serving cell based on the interference type. The apparatus in the serving cell may be a user equipment (UE), in which case the apparatus applies a set of uplink (UL) open loop power control parameters for the UE. The apparatus in the serving cell may be a base station (eNB), in which case a DL transmit power is set for the eNB. Depending on the interference type, the DL transmit power may be a fixed, full power DL transmission or an adjusted DL transmission.

Enhanced uplink and downlink power control for LTE TDD eIMTA

A method, a computer program product, and an apparatus for separating a cell cluster to two or more cell clusters are provided. The cell cluster may be separated into two or more cell clusters in order to mitigate interference between cells while allowing for TDD subframe configuration flexibility. The method identifies at least one separating cell in a cell cluster, the cell cluster including at least two cells having a common TDD subframe configuration, where a coupling loss between one cell in the cell cluster and at least another cell in the cell cluster is lower than a predefined threshold. The method separates the cell cluster based on the at least one separating cell into at least a first cell cluster and a second cell cluster and sets a first TDD subframe configuration for the first cell cluster and a second TDD subframe configuration for the second cell cluster.

Method and apparatus for separating a cell cluster for LTE EIMTA interference mitigation

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for dynamic indication of Time Division Duplex (TDD) Uplink (UL)/Downlink (DL) subframe configuration to User Equipments. A base station may identify one or more anchor subframes and one or more non-anchor subframes in a frame. The base station may dynamically change a UL/DL configuration of the frame used for communicating with a plurality of User Equipments (UEs) and signal the changed configuration using a common downlink control channel capable of being interpreted by the plurality of UEs in at least one of the one or more anchor subframes of the frame.

Dynamic indication of time division (TDD) duplex uplink/downlink subframe configurations

Methods, systems, and-devices are described for interference mitigation in a time-division duplex(TDD)wireless communication system. First and second subframe types may be identified for TDD subframes to be transmitted using the system. Different power control parameters associated with each subframe type may be identified based on transmission directions in neighboring cells for the particular subframes. One or more TDD subframes to be transmitted may be identified as a first or second subframe type, and power control may be applied to the transmitted subframes according the power control parameter associated with the subframe type. The identification of subframes and power control parameters to be applied to each type of subframe may be transmitted, for example, to a user equipment(UE). The information may be transmitted to a UE, for example, via radio resource control(RRC)signaling or via a physical layer control channel.

Signaling of enhanced power control for eIMTA interference mitigation

Interference mitigation solutions are disclosed for interference experienced based on asymmetric uplink (UL)/downlink (DL) slot configuration. The aggressor/victim network entities are identified using either measurement or static/semi-static means, such that the victim network entities that may be impacted by interference from aggressor network entity transmissions are identified. Inter Cell Interference Coordination (ICIC) mechanisms are extended to negotiate and address scheduling that intelligently mitigates interference that occurs in the colliding slots.

Interference mitigation in asymmetric LTE deployment

In aspects, methods and apparatus for utilizing a reconfiguration timer for updating TDD configuration are provided. Certain aspects of the present disclosure propose methods and apparatus for improving system performance while using adaptive uplink-downlink reconfiguration in a time division duplex (TDD) system. For certain aspects, a reconfiguration timer may be utilized along with a signaling scheme, in order to enjoy benefits of the adaptive uplink-downlink reconfiguration with minimum signaling overhead.

Method and apparatus for utilizing a reconfiguration timer for updating TDD configuration

Methods and apparatus are disclosed for interference management. The interference management is based on dynamic point selection or semi-static point selection. The method includes determining interference at a plurality of network nodes. The method includes selecting a transmission point from the plurality of network nodes for a transmission to at least one mobile entity based on the determined interference.

Dynamic cell cluster interference management scheme using dynamic point selection (DPS) or semi-static point selection (SPSS) for enhanced interference management and traffic adaptation (EIMTA)

Methods, systems, and devices are described for reconfiguring a user equipment (UE) to operate in a reconfigured TDD UL-DL configuration. An initial uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configuration for TDD communication may be provided for communication between an e Node B and a UE. One or more subframes within each frame transmitted using the initial UL-DL configuration may be identified as flexible subframes. The identification of flexible subframes may permit the identification of timing for HARQ transmissions that does not change when a reconfiguration takes place. A different UL-DL configuration may be transmitted to the UE, in which at least one flexible subframe is to be changed from an uplink subframe to a downlink subframe. The different UL-DL configuration may be transmitted by, for example, a pseudo-uplink grant to the UE, which indicates that the UE is to reconfigure one or more flexible subframes from uplink to downlink transmission.

Hybrid reconfiguration methods and apparatus for TDD adaptation

A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus groups subframes of a time division duplex (TDD) configuration of a serving cell into a set of anchor subframes and a set of non-anchor subframes. The apparatus also separately bundles positive acknowledgements (ACKs) and/or negative acknowledgements (NACKs) of the anchor subframes, and ACKs and/or NACKs of the non-anchor subframes.

Uplink ACK/NACK bundling enhancement for LTE TDD enhanced interference management and traffic adaptation

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving multimedia broadcast/multicast data. The method includes the steps of: receiving a check report returned from a receiver, determining whether the check report indicates there are both basic layer and enhanced layer data errors and if yes, exchanging the last two bits of the enhanced layer and the first two bits of the basic layer and modulating the data with a second constellation map and then transmitting the data; otherwise determining whether the check report indicates there is only the basic layer error, and modulating and transmitting the data according to the result of determination. The beneficial effects of the present invention are that the retransmission efficiency can be improved and the ratio of receiving the data correctly by the users at the cell center and at the cell border during the first retransmission is improved.

Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving MBMS based on hm

A method of interference suppression in a wireless cellular network includes notifying a first base station that there is a second User Equipment (UE) that currently suffers downlink interferences from the first base station, when an second UE in an active state suffers the downlink interferences from the first base station; and reallocating, by the first base station, spectrum resources for a first UE communicating with the first base station. A first base station, a second UE and a second base station for implementing the above method of interference suppression are also provided. When the second UE in the active state suffers the downlink interferences from an adjacent first base station, the first base station can adjust the spectrum resources occupied by the first UE through resource scheduling, so as to reduce the downlink interferences on the second UE in the active state, thus to reduce the influence on the communication between the second UE and the second base station.

Method and device of interference suppression in wireless cellular network

An inter-cell interference coordination method comprises: measuring an interference over thermal noise of a first subcarrier resource block in an uplink direction and obtaining an interference over thermal noise measurement value by a first base station; judging whether a first high interference indicating message is received from a second base station when the interference over thermal noise measurement value is larger than a first preset threshold value by the first base station; sending an overload indicator message to the second base station which has sent the high interference indicating message or shielding the first subcarrier resource block by the first base station when the first high interference indicating message is received; and sending the overload indicator message to base stations to which all the neighboring cells belong by the first base station when the first high interference indicating message is not received. The overhead at X2 interface is reduced according to the present invention.

Inter-cell interference coordination method and base station

A method of scheduling resources in an uplink of a wireless cellular communication system, comprising the steps of measuring, by each user equipment in a present cell, pilot strengths of adjacent cells to find base stations within adjacent cells on which the user equipment has the strongest inter-cell interferences and to calculate values of the inter-cell interferences in an uplink direction which is caused by the user equipment on said base stations within said adjacent cells; grouping all user equipments within the present cell based on the calculated values of the inter-cell interferences; grouping used sub-carriers based on the groups of the user equipments so that each group of user equipments corresponds to one group of sub-carriers; allocating each group of sub-carriers to the user equipments included in the group of user equipments selected corresponding to the group of sub-carriers; and based on the allocation of the group of the sub-carriers, calculating a modified signal noise interference power ratio of each user equipment on the corresponding group of sub-carriers, and performing a multi-user equipment resource scheduling algorithm.

Method of scheduling uplink resources in cellular communication system

Switched-beam antenna arrangement means use a method of controlling an antenna pattern of such antenna arrangement means. Each antenna pattern of a predetermined number of fixed antenna patterns is allocated to a predetermined time slot of a time multiplexed signal. The switched-beam antenna arrangement means is switched to generate the fixed antenna patterns during their allocated time slots. Thereby, any user can choose between distinct beam patterns by selecting an appropriate time slot, so that the risk that the user is located at the intersection area of two beams is greatly reduced.

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Minghai Feng