Systems and/or methods for supporting communications at a reduced bandwidth with a full bandwidth network such as a long-term evolution (LTE) network may be disclosed. For example, inband assignments such as downlink assignments and/or uplink grants may be provided and/or received and transmissions may be monitored and/or decoded based on the inband assignment. Additionally, information (e.g. a definition or configuration) associated with an ePDCCH may be provided and/or received and ePDCCH resources may be monitored and/or decoded based on such information. An indication for support of a reduced bandwidth by the full bandwidth network may also be provided and/or received and control channels in the reduced or narrow bandwidth may be monitored and/or decoded based on the indication. A PRACH preamble and/or a multi-type subframe definition may also be provided and/or used for support of such a reduced bandwidth.

Device communication using a reduced channel bandwidth

Embodiments contemplate methods and systems for determining and communicating channel state information (CSI) for one or more transmission points (or CSI reference signal resources). Embodiments further contemplate determining transmission states may include applying at least one CSI process for channel state information (CSI) reporting. Embodiments also contemplate aperiodic and/or periodic reporting of one or more report types (e.g., rank indicator (RI)) of CSI, perhaps based on one or more reporting modes that may be configured for each of the one or more CSI process.

Communicating channel state information (csi) of multiple transmission points

ePDCCH may be provided. For example, a WTRU may receive a configuration for monitoring an ePDCCH resource. Based on the configuration, the WTRU may be configured to monitor and may monitor the ePDCCH resource on a particular subframe. Additionally, a WTRU may derive an aggregation level for a subframe associated with an aggregation level number NAL. The WTRU may transmit or monitor an ePDCCH using the aggregation level associated with the NAL for the subframe. A WTRU may also receive a reference signal. The WTRU may then determine the type of reference signal received. The WTRU may perform a demodulation of the PDSCH or ePDCCH using a demodulation timing based on the determined type. The ePDCCH or PDSCH may also be monitored or received by identifying a demodulation reference timing implicitly based on a location of one or more ePDCCH resources where the WTRU may receive DCI.

Systems and/or methods for providing epdcch in a multiple carrier based and/or quasi-collated network

Methods for determining a LOB of one or more user equipment (UE) in a wireless system employing Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) is described. TDOA techniques are based 051 estimating the difference in the arrival times of reference signals from multiple receivers or from multiple emitters to a receiver. A particular value of the time difference estimate defines a hyperbola between the two receivers on which the handset may exist When the distance between the receiving antennas is small relative to the distance of the emitter source (the handset) being located, then the TDOA is equivalent to the angle between the baseline of the sensors (receivers antennas) and the incident RF energy from the emitter. If the angle between the baseline and true North is known, then the line of bearing (LOB) and/ or angle of arrival (AoA), can be utilised to determine the location of the UE.

Multi-Path Mitigation in Rangefinding and Tracking Objects Using Reduced Attenuation RF Technology

The present invention provides: a base station for repeatedly transmitting a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) during a first subframe bundle comprising a plurality of subframes, and transmitting a PDSCH related to the PDCCH; and user equipment for receiving the PDCCH and the PDSCH. The PDSCH can be transmitted to the user equipment starting from subframe n+k, which is the k th subframe after the last subframe n-1 in the first subframe bundle, wherein k is an integer bigger than 0. The first subframe bundle may begin from a predetermined or fixed position.

Method and user equipment for receiving downlink signal and method and base station for transmitting downlink signal

A communication system is provided wherein a user equipment (UE) receives control information from a wireless network. The UE monitors control channel candidates using common reference signals (CRS) and monitors enhanced control channel candidates using demodulation reference signals (DMRS) when the UE is configured in a first transmission mode, such as transmission mode 9, for receiving a downlink shared traffic channel based on DMRS. The UE monitors control channel candidates only using CRS when the UE is configured in a second transmission mode, such as any of transmission modes 1-6, for receiving a downlink shared traffic channel based on CRS. The UE then receives downlink control information (DCI) in a subframe in one of the monitored control channel candidates or enhanced control channel candidates in the subframe.

Method and apparatus for control channel transmission and reception

A wireless terminal receives signaling information, pertaining to a reference signal transmission in at least one specifically designated sub frame, the signaling information including a list, the list including base station identities The terminal determines, from at least one of the base station identities in the list, the time-frequency resources associated with a reference signal transmission intended for observed time difference of arrival (OTDOA) measurements from a transmitting base station associated with said one base station identity The time of arrival of a transmission from the transmitting base station, relative to reference timing, is measured The wireless terminal can receive a command from a serving cell to start performing inter-frequency OTDOA measurement on a frequency layer containing reference signals, the frequency layer distinct from the serving frequency layer, the serving frequency layer not containing positioning reference signals The wireless terminal can perform OTDOA measurements subsequent to the reception of the command on a carrier frequency different from the serving cell carrier frequency A base station transmitter can jointly schedule a reference signal transmission from a plurality of base station transmitters for the purpose of OTD estimation enhancement, and transmit identical reference signals from the plurality of base station transmitters, the reference signals being identical both in the signal sequence and time-frequency resources used for transmission

Interference control, sinr optimization and signaling enhancements to improve the performance of otdoa measurements

A method is described for fast coordinated transmissions in a multi-point system, which involves a UE receiving known pilot signals sent from a set of transmission antennas and determining, based on the known pilot signals from the set of transmission antennas, a recommended first subset of transmission antennas from which transmissions are not intended for the wireless communication device, and a recommended second subset of transmission antennas from which transmissions are intended for the wireless communication device The UE also determines a recommended transmission power setting of each of the first subset of transmission antennas; sending information to the base station, wherein the information pertains to the recommended first and second subsets of transmission antennas and the recommended transmission power setting of each of the first subset of transmission antennas

Multi-cell coordinated transmissions in wireless communication network

A receiver with DFT based channel estimation having good noise suppression for both high and low signal-to-noise ratios providing advantages over conventional DFT estimators and Minimum-Mean-Square-Error (MMSE) estimators. The use of MMSE may be incorporated for estimation at the band edges providing further improvements. The received signal in the time domain, is transformed to the frequency-domain received signal via an N-point FFT ( 501 ). The frequency-domain received signal at the pilot locations is then used to obtain a “noisy” channel estimates at the pilot subcarriers by dividing the known pilot symbols in ( 503 ). Uniformly spaced pilots are assumed over a window of usable subcarriers. Padding is applied to the initial channel estimates at both sides of the band to account for unused subcarriers such as guard spacing. Weighting factors during power estimation may take into account various noise characteristics such as combinations of known and time-limited noise power characteristics.

Channel estimator with high noise suppression and low interpolation error for ofdm systems

A method ( 300 ) and apparatus ( 106 ) for transmitting information based on a relationship between a first channel and a second channel is disclosed. The method can include taking ( 302 ) a first channel measurement corresponding to a first antenna of a wireless terminal and taking ( 304 ) a second channel measurement corresponding to a second antenna of the wireless terminal. The method can include determining ( 306 ) a relationship between the first channel and the second channel based on the first channel measurement and based on the second channel measurement. The method can include transmitting ( 310 ) information related to an uplink transmission where the information can be based on the relationship.

Xiangyang Zhuang

Papers

Method and apparatus for control channel transmission and reception

Interference control, sinr optimization and signaling enhancements to improve the performance of otdoa measurements

Multi-cell coordinated transmissions in wireless communication network

Channel estimator with high noise suppression and low interpolation error for ofdm systems

Method for multi-antenna uplink transmission