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Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2013

Filed:

Dec. 05, 2003
Applicants:

Ivan Jesus Fernandez-corbaton, San Diego, CA (US);

Srikant Jayaraman, San Diego, CA (US);

Charles Wheeler Sweet, Iii, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ivan Jesus Fernandez-Corbaton, San Diego, CA (US);

Srikant Jayaraman, San Diego, CA (US);

Charles Wheeler Sweet, III, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/00 (2009.01); H04B 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Systems and methods for adaptively allocating resources between a dedicated reference signal and a traffic signal are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a wireless communication systemincludes a base station. The base stationincludes a receiverthat receives a quality metricfrom a remote station. The quality metricindicates the quality of a signal transmitted from the base stationand received by the remote station. The base stationalso includes a resource allocation componentthat uses the quality metricto allocate a resource between the traffic signaland the dedicated reference signal. The base stationalso includes a transmitterthat transmits the traffic signaland the dedicated reference signalto the remote station


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