A method for communication in a wireless telecommunications system is provided. The method comprises performing, by a UE, responsive to the UE being engaged in an emergency service, at least one neighbor cell measurement regardless of a value of an RSRP in relation to a cell measurement parameter and regardless of a configuration status of the cell measurement parameter.
A method for communication in a wireless telecommunications system is provided. The method comprises receiving, by a first UE, a reference signal transmitted by a second UE and transmitting, by the first UE to a network node, a report indicating that the reference signal was received. The reference signal is received in a detection opportunity that occurs as one of a single detection opportunity or a portion of a pattern of detection opportunities.
Described herein is a user equipment comprising a processor configured to: derive a plurality of virtual subframes from an allocation of radio resources, the virtual subframes comprising a virtual special subframe and a virtual forward link subframe wherein the virtual forward link subframe comprises a first forward link portion and the virtual special subframe comprises one or more of: a second forward link portion, and a reverse link portion; transmit, via a direct device to device (DD2D) link, to a second user equipment during the first forward link portion; and receive, via the DD2D link, from the second user equipment during the reverse link portion.
Disclosed herein is a method of radio link monitoring (RLM) in a UE comprising the steps of: selecting a control channel type to perform RLM on, wherein the control channel type includes one or more of: a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); or an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH); receiving a transmission on a carrier, the transmission comprising one or more reference signals; and determining the quality of the radio link using the selected control channel type and the one or more reference signals.
A method for communication in a wireless telecommunication network is provided. The method comprises transmitting, by a first cell, to a first UE, a first signal on a resource block configured to be shared by more than one cell; and transmitting, by a second cell, to a second UE, a second signal on the same resource block, wherein a specification of a location of the resource block is included in configuration information available to the first cell and the second cell.
A method for communication in a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises: transmitting, by a network element in a first cell, a first DMRS on a first DMRS port; transmitting, by the network element, a first PDSCH on the first DMRS port; and transmitting, by the network, information indicating that the first DMRS port is used to transmit the first PDSCH, and information about a second DMRS port that is not used to transmit the first PDSCH but is used to transmit a second DMRS, wherein the first DMRS and the second DMRS are orthogonal to one another.
A method for receiving a PDCH is provided. The method comprises: receiving, by a UE, information identifying a plurality of resource elements that are transmitted with zero power in a resource block containing the PDCH; receiving, by the UE, a first DMRS on a first DMRS port transmitted from a first cell; and receiving, by the UE, the PDCH that is transmitted on the first DMRS port.
Described herein is a system with a first network element and a second network element. The first network element contains a processor configured to synchronize with the second network element; and maintain synchronization with the second network element. The first network element is a small cell eNB and the second network element is one of the following: a macro cell enhanced node-B (eNB); or a small cell eNB.
Described herein is a network element with a processor. The processor is configured to promote transmitting a first physical resource block (PRB) pair that contains a first demodulation reference signal (DMRS) pattern. The processor is further configured to promote transmitting a second PRB pair that contains a second DMRS pattern. The first DMRS pattern is a subset of the second DMRS pattern.
A method for sending a short message service (SMS) message is provided. The method comprises receiving, by a destination home network database entity from a sending network entity, a first message containing an indication of support for a plurality of SMS message delivery protocols, wherein the SMS message is transmitted to a target entity address contained in the first message.
A method for generating a synchronization signal is provided. The method comprises using a number other than 63 as an Nzc value in a Zadoff-Chu sequence used in generating a primary synchronization signal for a wireless communication system, which may be a 3GPP LTE system or a 3GPP LTE-A system.
A method is provided for communication in a wireless telecommunication system. The method comprises transmitting, by a network element, in at least one of a MAC-based component or a DCI-based component, information regarding a configuration of uplink subframes and downlink subframes in a radio frame.
A network element in a first cell in a wireless telecommunication network is provided. The network element comprises a processor configured such that the network element provides uplink and downlink grants in the first cell, wherein the first cell is a low-power cell within the coverage area of a second, high-power cell, and wherein the first cell acts as a secondary cell and the second cell acts as a primary cell in a carrier aggregation mode, and wherein at least one uplink control signal is received by one of only the first cell or both the first cell and the second cell.
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METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING ENHANCEMENTS TO FLEXIBLE SUBFRAMES IN LTE HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS
A method is provided for communication in a wireless telecommunication network. The method comprises providing, by a network element, one of an uplink grant or a downlink grant to at least one UE that the network element has determined, based on information received from a plurality of UEs, is closer to the network element than is another UE, wherein the uplink grant is scheduled such that the UE transmits to the network element only during at least one flexible subframe, and wherein the downlink grant is scheduled such that the network element transmits to the UE only during at least one flexible subframe. The method further comprises transmitting, by the network element, to at least one UE that the network element has determined, based on information received from a plurality of UEs, is closer to the network element than is another UE, only during at least one flexible subframe.
A method is provided for reducing radio frequency interference between a first device and a second device co-located on a UE. The method comprises transmitting, by the UE, to a network element, responsive to the UE detecting IDC interference between the first device and the second device, an output power level of the first device, an amount of de-sense experienced by the second device, and information regarding a plurality of RBs on which the UE requests to perform an uplink transmission.
A method is provided for communication in a wireless telecommunication system. The method comprises provisioning, by a network element, for a carrier aggregation-capable UE, in a control region of a downlink subframe, at least one resource for a PHICH.
A method and apparatus for operating a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communications network, the method separately encoding and rate matching a first set of information bits and a second set of information bits; mapping and concatenating the encoded and rate matched first set of information bits with the encoded and rate matched second set of information bits, thereby creating a bit stream; and modulating and transmitting the bit stream.
A method is provided for communication in a wireless telecommunication system. The method comprises multiplexing, by a network element, at least one symbol of a PHICH onto at least one resource element of a PCFICH.
A method is provided for communication in a wireless telecommunication system. The method comprises designating, by a network element, a first set of time-frequency resources for transmitting a first set of downlink control channels for a plurality of UEs, wherein the first set of time-frequency resources is known to the plurality of UEs, and wherein the first set of time-frequency resources varies from a first time interval to a second time interval. The method further comprises mapping, by the network element, a first downlink control channel to the first set of time-frequency resources. The method further comprises transmitting, by the network element, the first downlink control channel together with a downlink data channel in a frequency-division multiplexing manner.
A method is provided for communication in a wireless telecommunication system. The method comprises generating a sequence of signals of an enhanced physical HARQ (hybrid automatic repeat request) indicator channel (E-PHICH). The method further comprises mapping the sequence of signals of the E-PHICH to a first set of resource elements, wherein the first set of resource elements is multiplexed with a second set of resource elements over a set of virtual resource blocks, and wherein the second set of resource elements carries at least one of an enhanced physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH) and a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH).
A method is provided for recording data. The method comprises recording, by a device, a first set of samples of at least one of video data or audio data and recording, by the device, a second set of samples of information related to at least one of a position of the device or an orientation of the device. A plurality of samples in the first set are associated with a plurality of samples in the second set.
A user equipment (UE) is provided. The UE comprises a processor. The processor is configured to receive an extended physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH) in an E-PDCCH region that has been partitioned into at least two partitions. A first partition contains control channel elements (CCEs) with a first set of aggregation levels, and a second partition contains CCEs with a second set of aggregation levels.
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METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HANDLING OF A TRANSPORT BLOCK SIZE CHANGE IN AN ADAPTIVE RETRANSMIT ORDER
A method and apparatus for handling a downlink control information indication for retransmission, the method receiving a downlink control information indication for retransmission of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process; and if a transport block size in the downlink control information has changed compared with a transport block size associated with the HARQ process or a previous uplink grant for the HARQ process: handling the downlink control information indication for retransmission.
A method and user equipment for simultaneous transmission of a first set of information bits and a second set of information bits by a user equipment, either separately encoded utilizing transmit power or rate matching to increase successful decoding of a set of information bits, or jointly encoding using a priori knowledge or bit positioning to increase successful decoding. Also, the use of joint coding where a first set of information bits is encoded first and then encoded with a second set of information bits, and modulation symbol mapping are provided.
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A method is provided for communication in a wireless telecommunication system. The method comprises transmitting, by a first access node, an indicator to a second access node over an interface between the first access node and the second access node, wherein the indicator provides information on a transmission of a control channel by the first access node.
A method for operating a UE in a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises using, by the UE, a frequency parameter of paging frames and a restricted subframe pattern to determine one or more paging frames and occasions to monitor.
A method for operating a UE in a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises attempting, by a UE configured to operate in a DRX mode and with time domain measurement resource restrictions, to read a paging message in a paging occasion in a restricted subframe during DRX active time.
A method is provided for operating a network element in a wireless communications network. The method comprises transmitting, by a network element configured to utilize time domain measurement resource restriction, a first initial transmission under an SPS scheme, wherein retransmissions of the first initial transmission follow a first retransmission pattern. The method further comprises transmitting, by the network element, a second initial transmission under the SPS scheme, wherein retransmissions of the second initial transmission follow a second retransmission pattern, the second retransmission pattern allowing at least one retransmission of the second initial transmission to occur in a restricted subframe.
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PUSCH REFERENCE SIGNAL DESIGN FOR HIGH DOPPLER FREQUENCY
A method is provided for communication in a wireless telecommunication system. The method comprises transmitting, by a UE, a DMRS, wherein REs carrying the DMRS are separated into a plurality of portions, each of the portions occupying a different OFDM symbol in a single slot of a radio subframe. In one aspect, a new PUSCH DMRS format may provide accurate channel estimates, increased RS density in the time domain at the expense of relaxed PAPR, and/or a symmetric pattern to ease the channel estimation algorithm. The PUSCH DMRS format may provide sufficient RS density in the time domain to enable accurate channel estimation for high Doppler scenarios.
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