Lucent Technologies Inc.

Alcatel Lucent

Wenfeng Zhang

Nandu Gopalakrishnan

Jung-Tao Liu

Subramanian Vasudevan

Farooq Khan

Arnab Das

Douglas Norman Knisely

Yunsong Yang

Yunsong Yan

A system and method for wireless communication includes multiplexing an EUDC downlink control channel so that it is transmitted like a downlink dedicated channel (DL-DPCH). The EUDC downlink control channel can be multiplexed with the DL-DPCH by code or by both code and time. The EUDC downlink control channel may be multiplexed with a downlink dedicated physical data channel (DL-DPDCH), a downlink dedicated physical control channel (DL-DPCCH), or both. In one embodiment, the EUDC downlink control channel is multiplexed by adding a multicode channel to a current DL-DPCH and treating the EUDC downlink control channel as a dedicated channel with power control functionality.

Method for carrying downlink control information for an enhanced uplink dedicated channel

In the scheduling method of the present invention, scheduling grant messages for a user equipment are transmitted beginning in any time slot of a frame for a channel so long as the scheduling grant message does not exceed the frame. The scheduling grant message indicates user equipment is approved to transmit on an uplink dedicated channel. This downlink transmission and subsequent uplink dedicated channel transmission have a timing relationship such that no more than one user equipment will begin transmitting on a respective uplink dedicated channel at a time.

Method of scheduling on downlink and transmitting on uplink dedicated channels

A system and method for transmitting and receiving control information over a control channel of a wireless communication system where the conveyed information is coded and then transformed by a set of transform function selected from a plurality of sets of transform functions. The control information is transmitted as replicated sub-frames containing replicated code words and such a string of transformed replicated code words is referred to as a control message. At a receive end inverse transform functions from different sets of functions are applied to a sub-frame of a control message so that if the sub-frame is successfully decoded the inverse transform function applied to such frame allows the timing of the control message to be determined.

Method for early decoding of control channel information

A wireless data communication system includes a high speed dedicated physical control channel (EU-DPCCH) used with transmissions from a mobile device to support an uplink high speed data channel. In one example the EU-DPCCH has a sub frame structure that is the same as an associated dedicated data channel and a fixed spreading factor. The EU-DPCCH allows communicating control information from the mobile device such as a pilot reference, hybrid automatic repeat request information, and backlog information regarding a buffer of the mobile device.

High speed dedicated physical control channel for use in wireless data transmissions from mobile devices

A method for switching cells by a mobile equipment of a communication system. The mobile transmits a signal coded with a spreading code indicating the mobile's intent to switch cells and the coded information also identifies to which cell the mobile wants to switch. The coded information contains channel measurement adjustment information that is continuously transmitted to the cell which is currently serving the mobile. The flow of channel measurement adjustment information is therefore not disturbed by the application of the method of the present invention. Because the coded information identifies the target cell and indicates the mobile's intent to perform a cell switching procedure, the amount of processing done by the cells is significantly reduced thus increasing the likelihood of a successful switching procedure.

Method for cell switching in wireless communication systems

A method of using a generated pilot signal inserted in a CQF slot of an uplink signaling channel to control the transmission power of data information independently of the transmission power of voice information regardless of whether the voice and data information are transmitted simultaneously.

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