Abstract:
A method for operating a device includes determining adaptation criteria for a waveform to be transmitted by a transmitting device over a communications channel towards a receiving device, and adjusting a generalized multi-carrier multiplexing parameter (GMMP) of the waveform in accordance with the adaptation criteria. The method also includes transmitting an indicator of the adjusted GMMP to at least one of the transmitting device and the receiving device.
Abstract:
System and method embodiments are provided for channel sounding in a frequency division duplex (FDD) system. The embodiments enable a transmission point (TP) to determine channel information about a downlink channel from an uplink channel sounding signal received on the downlink channel frequency band during a time window reserved for uplink channel sounding on the downlink channel frequency band. In an embodiment, a method in a controller includes determining with the controller a schedule for an uplink sounding window in a downlink frequency band, wherein the uplink sounding window comprises a transmission window in at least a partial downlink frequency band that is reserved for uplink channel sounding, instructing a TP to signal the schedule to at least one wireless device in a coverage area of the TP, receiving a channel sounding signal in the downlink frequency band, and obtaining downlink channel state information from the channel sounding signal.
Abstract:
Methods and devices for common channel low PAPR signaling are disclosed having a power amplifier set configured to transmit broad-beam signals over a frequency band narrower than the available bandwidth and modulated with a low PAPR sequence. A second power amplifier set may be configured to transmit narrow-beam unicast signals.
Abstract:
A method for operating a machine-type device (MTD) includes determining communications requirements for a machine-type device (MTD), and assigning a first signal waveform selected from a plurality of signal waveforms to the MTD in accordance with the determined communications requirements, wherein each signal waveform has an associated characteristic signal bandwidth.
Abstract:
Methods and systems for a frame structure for machine-type communications (MTC) with adjustable pulse bandwidth are described. In an embodiment, the frame structure is an uplink frame structure that illustrates a representation of a plurality of coverage levels. The coverage levels are associated with a coverage range of a base station. Each coverage level is associated with corresponding sub-frames, and each sub-frame within a coverage level has the same sub-frame length and bandwidth.
Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for sending and receiving a signal, and relate to the field of wireless communication, where a quantity of pilots does not increase with increasing paired data streams of an MU-MIMO system, and overheads of the pilots are fixed. The method includes: determining, by a transmitter, a transmitting precoding vector of a primary pilot signal of a first receiver and an estimated receiving filtering vector; determining a transmitting precoding vector of a secondary pilot signal of the first receiver; determining a to-be-sent primary pilot signal, to-be-sent user data of the first receiver, and a to-be-sent secondary pilot signal; and sending the first receiver the to-be-sent primary pilot signal, the to-be-sent user data of the first receiver, and the to-be-sent secondary pilot signal.
Abstract:
System and method embodiments are provided for channel sounding in a frequency division duplex (FDD) system. The embodiments enable a transmission point (TP) to determine channel information about a downlink channel from an uplink channel sounding signal received on the downlink channel frequency band during a time window reserved for uplink channel sounding on the downlink channel frequency band. In an embodiment, a method in a controller includes determining with the controller a schedule for an uplink sounding window in a downlink frequency band, wherein the uplink sounding window comprises a transmission window in at least a partial downlink frequency band that is reserved for uplink channel sounding, instructing a TP to signal the schedule to at least one wireless device in a coverage area of the TP, receiving a channel sounding signal in the downlink frequency band, and obtaining downlink channel state information from the channel sounding signal.
Abstract:
Embodiments are provided for early termination of an iterative process of determining channel directions and transmissions in multi-user multiple-input and multiple-output (MU-MIMO) communications systems. In an embodiment, a base station or a user equipment (UE) calculates a multi-user channel matrix using a first iteration of a null-space singular value decomposition (SVD) based iterative zero-forcing (I-ZF) algorithm for multi-user MU-MIMO. The base station or UE repeats updating the multi-user channel matrix using a next iteration of the algorithm and the multi-user channel matrix calculated in a previous iteration, until the diagonal elements of the multi-user channel matrix are greater than the off-diagonal elements by a predefined threshold. Upon determining that the diagonal elements are greater than the off-diagonal elements by the predefined threshold, a plurality of transmission signals are calculated using the last updated multi-user channel matrix.
Abstract:
System and method embodiments are provided for a receiver for circularly convolved signals. In an embodiment, a universal decoder for a circularly convolved signal includes a first decoder configured to decode the circularly convolved signal; a second decoder configured to decode a plurality of symbol lengths signal from a first portion of the circularly convolved signal, wherein the plurality of symbol lengths signal is time aligned with the circularly convolved signal before passing through the second decoder; and an adder component configured to sum a first decoder output coming from the first decoder and a second decoder output coming from the second decoder to produce a symbol value from which a log likelihood ratio (LLR) output is obtained.
Abstract:
A method for transmitting a waveform includes adjusting first multiplexing parameters of a first multi-carrier waveform to meet communications requirements of a communications system, generating a first signal in accordance with a first input bit block and a first modulation map, placing the first signal in a first subband, wherein the first subband is specified in accordance with the first adjusted multiplexing parameters, and transmitting the first subband.