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Mo-Han Fong

Hang Zhang

Youn Hyoung Heo

Wen Tong

Sophie Vrzic

Jianglei Ma

Zhijun Cai

Peiying Zhu

Robert Novak

Hua Xu

Dong-Sheng Yu

Sean Michael McBeath

Andrew Mark Earnshaw

Ming Jia

Jun Yuan

Yujian Zhang

Yi Yu

Nageen Himayat

Geng Wu

Alexander Sasha Sirotkin

Candy Yiu

Chandra Sekhar Bontu

Jun J Li

Mark Earnshaw

Robert Mark Harrison

Richard Charles Burbidge

Yi Song

Huaning Niu

Hyung-Nam Choi

Sangeetha L Bangolae

Pingping Zong

Shu-Ping Yeh

Puneet K Jain

Hong He

Jong-Kae Fwu

Umesh Phuyal

Jianming Wu

Derek Yu

Dongsheng Yu

Muthaiah Venkatachalam

Shilpa Talwar

Marta Martinez Tarradell

Yongkang Jia

James Earl Womack

Jing Zhu

David Philip Hole

Shalini Suresh Periyalwar

Michael Eoin Buckley

Alexandre Saso Stojanovski

Nimal Gamini Senarath

David G Steer

Jeffrey William Wirtanen

Stefano M Faccin

Takashi Suzuki

Kamran Etemad

Apostolos Papathanassiou

Qinghua Li

Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov

Alexey Vladimirovich Khoryaev

Vivek G Gupta

Konstantinos Dimou

Hujun Yin

Jeongho Jeon

Sudeep K Palat

Sean Bartholomew Simmons

Aaron Callard

Leo L Strawczynski

Shiquan Wu

Johanna Lisa Dwyer

Ana Lucia A Pinheiro

Masoud Ebrahimi Tazeh Mahalleh

Gang Xiong

Mohammadhadi Baligh

Kyeongin Jeong

Muhammad Khaledul Islam

Qian Li

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Jerome Parron

M Khaledul Islam

Jaemin Han

Ashvin H Chheda

Maiyuran Wijayanathan

Paul Marcus Carpenter

Johanna Dwyer

Seunghee Han

Hwan-Joon Kwon

Yuan Zhu

Xiaogang Chen

Hyejung Jung

Shiwei Gao

Ahmad Jalali

Satish Chandra Jha

Hosein Nikopour

Feng Chen

RongZhen Yang

Sheng Sun

Xixian Chen

Abhijeet Bhorkar

Ana Lucia Pinheiro

Meghashree Dattatri Kedalagudde

A method for reporting power headroom-related information for a plurality of aggregated carriers. The method includes reporting in a bitmap the power headroom-related information for a number of the aggregated carriers that is less than or equal to the total number of aggregated carriers, wherein the power headroom-related information is one of a power headroom for at least one of the aggregated carriers and a path loss for at least one of the aggregated carriers.

Reporting power headroom for aggregated carriers

Methods, devices, and systems for multi-carrier network operation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of performing channel scrambling in a multi-carrier network, wherein the multi-carrier network includes a first component carrier ('CC') and a second CC between a base station and a user equipment (“UE”) comprises receiving a Cell Radio Network Temporary Identifier (“C-RNTI”) and a cell identification (“ID”) for at least one of the first CC and the second CC; and using the RNTI and the cell ID to perform scrambling of information transmitted on at least one of the first CC and the second CC.

System and method for multi-carrier network operation

A method for processing a control channel at a user agent (UA) to identify power control commands within a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of, at a user agent, monitoring for power control messages on a single carrier, decoding a message received on the single carrier to generate decoded information and using the decoded information to identify a power control command for each of at least first and second carriers.

System and method for reducing decoding for carrier power control

Systems, methods, and software can be used to process a control channel at a user agent (UA) within a wireless communication system. In some aspects, the method includes identifying one carrier as an anchor carrier andat least one otheranothercarrier as a non-anchor carrier;for each carrier: determining a location of a UA specific search space including one or more control channel candidates for the carrier based on a linear congruential random number; and attempting to decode each of the control channel candidates in the UA specific search space to identify at least one of an uplink or a downlink grant associated with the carrierand receiving information indicating a first number of control channel candidates for a first aggregation level for the anchor carrier and a second number of control channel candidates for the first aggregation level for the non-anchor carrier, wherein the first number of control channel candidates is different from the second number of control channel candidates.

System and method for determining a search space in carrier aggregation in LTE-A

Methods, devices, and systems for the transmission of information in a wireless communication system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for the transmission of information in a wireless communication system comprises receiving a downlink message, wherein the downlink message includes a first control channel element; determining a first index using the location of the first control channel element; determining a second index; determining a first orthogonal resource using the first index; determining a second orthogonal resource using the second index; spreading an uplink message using the first orthogonal resource to form a first spread signal; spreading the uplink message using a second orthogonal resource to form a second spread signal; transmitting the first spread signal using a first antenna; and transmitting the second spread signal using a second antenna.

Transmission of information in a wireless communication system

A method and system to signal transmission layers or dedicated reference signal ports to be used in a multiple input multiple output system, the method including providing a downlink control signal containing information for transmission layers or dedicated reference signal ports utilized, the dedicated reference signal ports being associated with the transmission layers; and using the information to demodulate data on each transmission layer.

Method and system for signaling transmission layers for single user and multi user MIMO

A method for processing a control channel at a user agent (UA) to identify at least one of an uplink and a downlink resource allocated by a resource grant within a multi-carrier communication system wherein resource grants are specified by control channel element (CCE) subset candidates wherein the carriers used for data transmission and reception are configured carriers, the method comprising the steps of receiving activation signals specifying active and deactivated carriers from among the configured carriers, for active carriers (i) identifying a number of CCE subset candidates to decode and (ii) decoding up to the identified number of CCE subset candidates in an attempt to identify the resource grant; and for deactivated carriers, ignoring CCE subset candidates associated with the deactivated carriers.

System and method for sharing a control channel for carrier aggregation

Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Evolved Node-B (eNB) and methods for communication in accordance with a packet convergence and link control (PCLC) layer are generally described herein. The UE may receive, from a Fifth Generation (5G) eNB, a first group of medium access control (MAC) protocol data units (PDUs) that include PCLC PDUs. In accordance with PCLC sequence numbers (SNs), the UE may reorder the PCLC PDUs and may decipher the PCLC PDUs. The UE may receive, from a legacy eNB, a second group of MAC PDUs that include packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) PDUs encapsulated in radio link control (RLC) PDUs. The UE may reorder the RLC PDUs based on RLC SNs and may decipher the RLC PDUs based on PDCP SNs that are exclusive to the RLC SNs.

User equipment (UE), evolved node-B (ENB) and methods for a packet convergence and link control (PCLC) layer

To effectively and efficiently provide control information, a broadcast pointer channel (BPCH) may be used to identify the type and perhaps relative location of control information that is being provided in a given frame structure, such as a sub-frame, frame, or superframe. A sub-frame (or like framing entity, such a frame or superframe) may have a BPCH and a corresponding system control information segment in which control information may reside. The system control information segment may have any number of control information blocks, wherein each control information block that is present may correspond to a particular type of control information. The BPCH is used to identify the type of control information that is present in a corresponding system control information segment, and if needed or desired, the relative locations of the various control information.

Communication of control information using alert flag and version number

Disclosed herein are apparatuses, systems, and methods using or implementing dynamic resource allocation (DRA) of resources for machine-type communication (MTC), as a secondary partition within a system bandwidth. Allocations outside the secondary partition are configured as a primary partition for other than MTC. Apparatuses may perform MTC communications within the secondary partition when DRA configuration information includes allocation information for the secondary partition and the apparatus is configured for MTC. Otherwise, if the apparatus is other than MTC, the apparatus may refrain from performing communications in the secondary partition. Other embodiments are described.

Dynamic resource allocation for machine-type communication

Methods described herein are for wireless communication systems. One aspect of the invention is directed to a method for a HARQ process, in which the HARQ process includes a first transmission of an encoder packet and at least one retransmission. The method involves allocating a transmission resource for each respective transmission. The method involves transmitting control information from a base station to a mobile station for each respective transmission. The control information includes information to uniquely identify the HARQ process and an identification of one of a time resource, a frequency resource and a time and frequency resource that is allocated for the transmission. In some embodiments of the invention, specific control information is signalled from a base station to a mobile station to enable RAS-HARQ operation. In some embodiments of the invention, retransmission signaling in included as part of regular unicast signaling used for both first transmission and retransmissions. In some embodiments of the invention, a 3-state acknowledgement channel and associated error recovery operation enables the base station and mobile station to recover from control signaling error and reduce packet loss.

Methods and systems for HARQ protocols

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