Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Sang-Hyuck Ha

Min-Goo Kim

Jin-Woo Heo

Nam-Yul Yu

Seong-Woo Ahn

Jae-Sung Jang

Young-Mo Gu

Inyup Kang

Ho-Kyu Choi

Mostafa El-Khamy

Jae-Yong Lee

Sung-soo Kim

Young-Kwon Cho

Hye-Jeong Kim

Bong-Gee Song

Yun-Sang Park

Beong-Jo Kim

Young-Hwan Lee

Sang-Min Bae

Soon-Jae Choi

Arvind Yedla

Se-Hyoung Kim

Jae-hong Lee

Hae-Dong Yeon

Seo-Weon Heo

Hyunsang Cho

Apparatuses (including user equipment (UE) and modern chips for UEs), systems, and methods for UE downlink Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) buffer memory management are described. In one method, the entire UE DL HARQ buffer memory space is pre-partitioned according to the number and capacities of the UE's active carrier components. In another method, the UE DL HARQ buffer is split between on-chip and off-chip memory so that each partition and sub-partition is allocated between the on-chip and off-chip memories in accordance with an optimum ratio.

Method and system for contiguous HARQ memory management with memory splitting

Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for effectively allocating frequency resources in a mobile communication system. The method includes: determining a first offset of a preset frequency band from among all frequency bands, determining a second offset corresponding to a symbol unit in the preset frequency band, and allocating frequency resources to data, the frequency resources corresponding to a sum of the first offset and the second offset.

Apparatus and method for allocating frequency resources in mobile communication system

An apparatus and method for reading written symbols by deinterleaving to decode a written encoder packet in a receiver for a mobile communication system supporting turbo coding and interleaving, such that a turbo-coded/interleaved encoder packet has a bit shift value m, an up-limit value J and a remainder R, and a stream of symbols of the encoder packet is written in order of column to row. The apparatus and method perform the operations of generating an interim address by bit reversal order (BRO) assuming that the remainder R is 0 for the received symbols; calculating an address compensation factor for compensating the interim address in consideration of a column formed with the remainder; and generating a read address by adding the interim address and the address compensation factor for a decoding-required symbol, and reading a symbol written in the generated read address.

Method and apparatus for deinterleaving interleaved data stream in a communication system

A Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) control apparatus and method for detecting a message received over a packet data control channel in a mobile communication system are provided in which a base station transmits a packet data control message over at least one packet data control channel and transmits packet data to a mobile station over a packet data channel. A control channel decoder decodes a control message received over the packet data control channel. Based on the decoded control message, the HARQ controller determines at least one of whether to perform demodulation and decoding on a packet received over the packet data channel, whether to update a Walsh mask, and whether to perform state transition on the mobile station. The HARQ controller based on the determination performs at least one of the following functions: outputs demodulation and decoding parameters, updates a Walsh mask, and outputs a state transition value to an upper layer. A data channel demodulator demodulates packet data received over the packet data channel upon receiving a demodulation parameter from the HARQ controller. A decoder decodes the packet data demodulated by the data channel demodulator upon receiving a decoding parameter from the HARQ controller.

Apparatus and method for controlling hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) in a mobile communication system

An apparatus for controlling a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) is provided. In the apparatus, a physical layer includes a decoder for decoding a control message received over the packet data control channel, a demodulator for demodulating packet data received over the packet data channel, and a turbo decoder for decoding the demodulated packet data. A physical layer's HARQ controller determines whether to demodulate and decode the received packet data depending on a decoding result of the control message, outputs the decoded control message to the demodulator and the turbo decoder for demodulation and decoding of the received packet data, controls output of a response signal according to decoding result of the packet data, and delivers the turbo-decoded packet data to an upper layer.

Apparatus for controlling hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) in a mobile communication system

An apparatus for generating Quasi-Complementary Duo-Binary Turbo Codes (QC-DBTC). The apparatus includes a QC-DBTC encoder which receives an information symbol stream and generates a plurality of systematic symbol streams and a plurality of parity symbol streams according to a given code rate. The apparatus further includes a quad-symbol mapper which quad-maps the systematic symbol streams to one symbol stream, a channel interleaver which independently interleaves the quad-mapped systematic symbol stream and the parity symbol streams, quad-demaps the quad-mapped systematic symbol stream, interlaces symbols in parity symbol streams, and serial-concatenates the quad-demapped systematic symbol stream to the interlaced parity symbol streams. A duo-binary turbo code generator is further provided to repeat the serial-concatenated symbol stream, and select a predetermined number of symbols from the repeated symbol stream according to a code rate and selection information, thereby generating QC-DBTC codes.

Apparatus and method for generating and decoding forward error correction codes having variable rate in a high-rate wireless data communication system

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for detecting a data rate in a turbo decoder for a mobile communication system. When a rate selector selects one data rate among a plurality of data rates, a turbo decoder repeatedly decodes an input data frame within a predetermined repetition limit number using the selected data rate and outputs the decoded data. A CRC detector performs CRC check on the decoded data and outputs the CRC check result, and a decoding state measurer measures decoding quality depending on the decoded data and outputs decoding state information. A controller then sets the repetition limit number to a predetermined minimum value, controls the repetition limit number according to the decoding state information, controls the rate selector and determines a data rate of the input data depending on the CRC check result.

Apparatus and method for detecting transmitting rate of turbo decoder

A method and apparatus for effectively controlling data input to a turbo decoder for decoding forward packet data traffic in a 1xEV-DV mobile station (MS) are disclosed. After received code symbols are stored in one of several memories and read in deinterleaving order, read addresses and chip select signals are generated for the memories based on encoder packet size in synchronization to a decoder clock signal. The decoding starts by inputting a predetermined number of code symbols to the turbo decoder in an appropriate order. The decoder input apparatus reads demodulated forward packet data from decoder input buffers in an appropriate order using the read addresses and chip select signals to generate turbo decoder input data in an appropriate form. Thus, a small-size, low-cost, low-power consumption MS is achieved by processing channel-interleaved data at high speed and with reduced process delay and providing them to a decoder.

Method and apparatus for controlling turbo decoder input

A mobile station apparatus and method provide for receiving packet data transmitted over a packet data channel, decoding the received packet data and delivering the decoded packet data to an upper layer in a mobile communication system transmitting packet data transmitted over a forward packet data channel and transmitting, over a forward packet data control channel, demodulation and decoding information of packet data transmitted over the forward packet data channel. The apparatus and method comprise a fast turbo decoder for decoding packet data received over the packet data channel depending on information received over the forward packet data control channel, storing the decoded data, and outputting buffer information of the stored data; an output buffer for storing the received packet data, and outputting the packet data upon receiving a read request. The apparatus and method further comprise an output buffer controller for receiving information on the decoded data and the buffer information from the fast turbo decoder, and generating an interrupt signal and a read address for reading data stored in the output buffer using the received data information and buffer information; and a processor for reading data stored in the output buffer according to the read address upon receiving the interrupt signal from the output buffer controller.

Apparatus and method for controlling an output buffer in a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) mobile communication system

An apparatus and method for receiving a packet data control channel in a mobile communication system that transmits packet data and has the packet data control channel for transmitting control information related to transmission of packet data are provided. A receiver receives and despreads a signal on the packet data channel and a signal on the packet data control channel, separately outputs the signals, and estimates a noise of a received signal. A signal level detector receives a noise estimation value and samples of the packet data control channel signal from the receiver, and outputs a validity signal for detecting whether information is received over the packet data control channel. A packet data control channel decoder decodes the packet data control channel signal if the validity signal received from the signal level detector is valid.

Apparatus and method for receiving control message on packet data control channel in a mobile communication system supporting packet data service

Disclosed is an apparatus and method for supporting automatic repeat request (ARQ) in a high-speed wireless packet data communication system. A mobile station receives control information including a subpacket identifier (SP_ID) representing the sequence of a subpacket, the size of an encoder packet (EP_SIZE), and a sequence identifier (AI_SN) that is toggled each time a new encoder packet is transmitted, while receiving one of a plurality of subpackets generated by segmenting a bit stream acquired by encoding a transmission encoder packet. The mobile station determines whether it will perform a decoding process caused by initial transmission or a decoding process caused by retransmission on the received subpacket, based on the control information.

Apparatus and method for supporting automatic repeat request in a high-speed wireless packet data communication system

There is provided a device and method for transmitting packet data in a mobile communication system. A sub-code generator generates a plurality of sub-codes with the same or different code rates for the input of a PLP (Physical Layer Packet) information bit stream. A controller determines a minimum data rate by which the number of the modulation symbols of a sub-code generated by a predetermined modulation method is equal to or greater than the number of transmittable modulation symbols for each time period. A symbol pruner prunes part of the modulation symbols of the sub-code to make the number of the modulation symbols of the sub-code equal to the number of transmittable modulation symbols for the time period, if the number of the modulation symbols of the sub-code is greater than the number of transmittable modulation symbols for the time period.

Method and device for transmitting packet data in mobile communication system

A method and apparatus for deshuffling received shuffled data in a communication system supporting multi-level modulation. A transmitter encodes information bits and shuffles code symbols so that systematic symbols having a relatively high priority are disposed at high-transmission reliability positions and parity symbols having a relatively low priority are disposed at low-transmission reliability positions in a modulation symbol. A receiver demodulates received data and outputs a modulation symbol having a plurality of code symbols, stores the code symbols separately as systematic symbols and parity symbols in corresponding memory areas according to a deshuffling order corresponding to the shuffling, reads the stored code symbols, decodes the stored code symbols at a predetermined code rate, and thus outputs an packet.

Method and apparatus for receiving and deshuffling shuffled data in a high-rate packet data telecommunication system

A method and apparatus for mapping a stream of bits output from an encoder to a stream of bits for 2-ary modulation. The method and apparatus divides the stream of bits from the encoder into a first period and a second period. The first period includes bits with higher priority in the stream of the bits output from the encoder, and the second period includes bits with lower priority. The method and apparatus maps the bits existing in the first period to bit positions with higher reliability in a stream of m bits representing each of the bits for 2-ary modulation, and maps the bits existing in the second period to bit positions with lower reliability in the stream of m bits.

Method and apparatus for rearranging codeword sequence in a communication system

An apparatus and method for soft-combining demodulated symbols in a mobile communication system. In the mobile communication system, a transmitting apparatus modulates symbols in different modulation schemes and a receiving apparatus demodulates the modulation symbols in correspondence with the modulation schemes. The soft symbol combining apparatus includes an RWF calculator, an RWF controller, and a soft symbol controller. The RWF calculator calculates an energy of a modulation symbol from each of the modulation schemes and determines relative ratios of the energies to be RWFs for the modulation schemes. The RWF controller multiplies soft metrics of the demodulated soft symbols by the RWFs. Finally, the soft symbol controller combines the multiplied soft metrics.

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Sang-Hyuck Ha