Timing of component carriers in multi-carrier wireless networks

    公开(公告)号:US11419034B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-16

    申请号:US14168944

    申请日:2014-01-30

    摘要: Mechanisms for efficient transmission of large amount of download data from a base station to a user equipment in a multi-carrier that minimizes power consumption on the user equipment are described. When multiple component carriers are to be used to transmit the download data, the base station informs the user equipment. The base station transmits on the anchor carriers without wait after informing the user equipment and transmits on the non-anchor carriers after waiting a predetermined delay. The predetermined delay provides time to allow the user equipment to activate the receiving resources and be ready to receive the download data over the non-anchor carriers. In this manner, the user equipment can be in a power conservation mode and activate the receiver resources only when needed.

    Localized and distributed transmission

    公开(公告)号:US11025379B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-01

    申请号:US16283678

    申请日:2019-02-22

    摘要: The available transmission resources on a downlink-shared channel are divided into resource blocks, each resource block comprising a predetermined number of sub-carriers during a predetermined time period. The resource blocks are subdivided into localized resource blocks and distributed resource blocks. A user requiring sufficient resources can be allocated a plurality of said localized resource blocks. A user who would require only a small number of said localized resource blocks can instead be allocated subunits of a plurality of said distributed resource blocks.

    Uplink subframe shortening in time-division duplex (TDD) systems

    公开(公告)号:US10517112B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-12-24

    申请号:US14407793

    申请日:2013-12-04

    摘要: A guard period for switching between uplink and downlink subframes is created by shortening an uplink subframe, i.e., by not transmitting during one or more symbol intervals at the beginning of the subframe interval. A grant message includes signaling indicating when a shortened subframe should be transmitted. An example method is implemented in a first wireless node configured to transmit data in transmit subframes occurring at defined subframe intervals and having a predetermined number of symbol intervals. This example method includes determining (1620) that a transmit subframe is to be shortened, relative to the predetermined number of symbol intervals and, in response to this determination, shortening (1630) transmission of the transmit subframe by not transmitting during a beginning portion of the subframe interval for the transmit subframe and transmitting during the remainder of the subframe interval.

    Methods and devices for controlling antenna points

    公开(公告)号:US10470216B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-05

    申请号:US14899654

    申请日:2013-06-19

    摘要: The teachings presents a method 10 performed in a network node 2, the network node 2 controlling a first and a second antenna point 3, 4. The network node 2 uses the same random access resources for the first and the second antenna points 3, 4. The method 10 comprises: detecting 11 a specific random access preamble received on a random access resource at the first antenna point 3 and on the same random access resource at the second antenna point 4; and scheduling 12 a transmission of a random access response to the random access preamble received at the first antenna point 3 and a transmission of a random access response to the random access preamble received at the second antenna point 4, the random access responses being scheduled separated in time and/or space. The teachings also presents corresponding devices.

    Methods and apparatus in a wireless communication system for transmitting and receiving user data on a non-legacy carrier

    公开(公告)号:US10448396B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-15

    申请号:US14386520

    申请日:2013-03-19

    IPC分类号: H04W72/04 H04L5/00

    摘要: A base station (20A) is configured to transmit user data to a wireless device (16A) upon a first carrier (22). The base station (20A) identifies, from a set of transmission resources that is nominally allocated for transmission of user data upon the first carrier (22), a subset of transmission resources that is also nominally allocated for transmission of a reference or control signal either by the base station (20A) upon a second carrier (24) or by a neighboring base station (20B) upon the first carrier (22). The base station (20A) selectively transmits user data to the wireless device (16A) upon the first carrier (22) exclusive of this identified subset of transmission resources. The device (16A) in some embodiments obtains information indicating that the base station (20A) is selectively transmitting user data upon the first carrier (22) exclusive of the subset in this way. Based on this information, the device (16A) recovers user data received upon the first carrier (22) exclusive of the subset of transmission resources.

    Uplink multi-TTI scheduling in TDD system

    公开(公告)号:US09942881B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-04-10

    申请号:US14212927

    申请日:2014-03-14

    IPC分类号: H04W72/04 H04W72/12 H04L5/14

    摘要: Systems and methods are disclosed for transmission and reception of an uplink grant during a gap created in radio resources assigned by a previous multiple Transmit Time Interval (multi-TTI) uplink grant in a system operating according to a Time Division Duplexing (TDD) scheme. In one embodiment, a method of operation of a radio network node in a cellular communications network is provided. The method includes transmitting a first uplink grant that assigns radio resources for a multi-TTI uplink transmission, and transmitting a second uplink grant during a gap in the radio resources assigned by the first uplink grant. In one embodiment, by utilizing the gap to transmit the second uplink grant, uplink radio resources assigned for uplink transmission can be maximized, which is particularly beneficial in high uplink traffic conditions.