RU2445752C2 - Synchronisation and functioning of pich channel and high-speed channels - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: transmitted paging indicator data can be sent over a paging channel to one or more mobile devices. The paging indicator indicates that additional information, such as full paging messages, other control plane data or other user plane data, expect transmission at the given moment in time (e.g., in a subframe) on the corresponding high-speed channel. A set of parameters, which defines the set of corresponding subframes in the high-speed channel, can be transmitted over shared channels. Mobile devices can analyse the set of parameters in order to determine corresponding subframes and receive the subframes in accordance with a schedule.

EFFECT: improved feedback relating to channel information and possibility of using the channel of a paging indicator together with high-speed channels in a wireless communication network.

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Description

This application claims the priority of provisional patent application US No. 60/895,141, entitled "SYNCHRONIZING AND OPERATING PICH CHANNELS AND HIGH SPEED CHANNELS", which was filed March 15, 2007. This application also claims the priority of U.S. provisional patent application No. 60 / 895,399, entitled "SYNCHRONIZING AND OPERATING PICH CHANNELS AND HIGH SPEED CHANNELS", which was filed March 16, 2007. The applications mentioned above are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The following description relates, in general, to wireless communications and, in particular, to mutual synchronization and operation between the paging indicator channel and high-speed channels.

State of the art

Wireless communication systems are widely used to provide various types of information content, such as voice, data, and so on. Typical wireless communication systems may be multiple access systems capable of communicating with multiple users by sharing available system resources (e.g., frequency band, transmit power, etc.). Examples of such multiple access systems may include code division multiple access (CDMA) systems, time division multiple access (TDMA) systems, frequency division multiple access (FDMA) systems, orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) systems, and etc. Additionally, systems can meet such specifications, third-generation partnership project (3GPP), long-term development technology (LTE) of the 3GPP project, etc.

In general, a multiple access wireless communication system can simultaneously support communication for multiple mobile devices. Each mobile device can communicate with one or more base stations via transmissions on the forward and reverse links. A direct communication line (or a downlink) is a communication line from base stations to mobile devices, and a reverse communication line (or an upward communication line) is a communication line from mobile devices to base stations. In addition, communication between mobile devices and base stations can be established through systems with one input and one output (SISO), systems with multiple inputs and one output (MISO), systems with multiple inputs and multiple outputs (MIMO), etc. . In addition, mobile devices can communicate with other mobile devices (and / or base stations with other base stations) in peer-to-peer wireless network configurations.

A MIMO system uses several (N _T ) transmit antennas and several (N _R ) receive antennas for data transmission. A MIMO channel formed by N _T transmit and N _R receive antennas can be decomposed into N _S independent channels, which can also be called spatial channels, where N _S ≤min {N _T , N _R }. Each of the N _S independent channels corresponds to a dimension. In addition, the MIMO system can provide improved performance (for example, increased spectral efficiency, higher throughput and / or higher reliability) if additional dimensions created by several transmitting and receiving antennas are used.

MIMO systems can support a variety of duplexing techniques to separate forward and reverse link interactions in a common physical medium. For example, frequency division duplex (FDD) systems may use separate frequency domains for forward and reverse link interactions. In addition, in time division duplex (TDD) systems, forward and reverse link interactions can use a common frequency domain. However, traditional methods may provide limited feedback or may not provide feedback related to channel information.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The following is a simplified description of the nature of one or more embodiments to provide a basic understanding of these embodiments. This description of the invention is not a detailed overview of all considered embodiments, and is not intended to identify key or critical elements of all embodiments, nor to determine the scope of any embodiments. Its sole purpose is to present some concepts of one or more embodiments in a simplified form as an introduction to the more detailed description that is presented later.

In accordance with an aspect of the invention, a method for using a paging indicator channel in conjunction with high speed channels is described herein. The method may comprise transmitting a paging indicator on a paging indicator channel to at least one mobile device. In addition, the method may comprise scheduling information intended for at least one mobile device on a high-speed channel, the scheduling being at least partially based on the presence of a paging indicator and a set of parameters transmitted over common channels. The method may also include sending information to at least one mobile device via a high-speed channel.

Another aspect of the invention relates to a wireless communications device, which may comprise a memory that stores instructions related to transmitting a paging indicator on a paging indicator channel to at least one mobile device, to scheduling information for at least one mobile device on a high-speed channel, the scheduling being at least partially based on a set of parameters transmitted over common channels and sending information to at least one m a hammer device on the high-speed channel. A wireless communication device may also include a processor coupled to the memory and configured to execute instructions stored in the memory.

Another aspect of the invention relates to a wireless communications apparatus that enables serving a high speed channel using a paging indicator channel. The device may include means for transmitting a paging indicator on a paging indicator channel to at least one mobile device. The device may also comprise means for scheduling information intended for at least one mobile device on a high-speed channel, the scheduling being at least partially based on a set of parameters transmitted over common channels. In addition, the wireless communication device may include means for sending information to at least one mobile device via a high-speed channel.

Another aspect of the invention relates to a computer-readable medium storing machine-executable instructions for transmitting a paging indicator on a paging indicator channel to at least one mobile device. In addition, the computer-readable medium may further comprise instructions for scheduling information intended for at least one mobile device on a high-speed channel, the scheduling being at least partially based on a set of parameters transmitted over common channels. In addition, the computer-readable medium may comprise instructions for sending information to at least one mobile device via a high-speed channel.

In accordance with another aspect of the invention, an apparatus in a wireless communication system may comprise an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit may be configured to transmit a paging indicator on a paging indicator channel to at least one mobile device. The integrated circuit may further be configured to schedule information intended for at least one mobile device on a high speed channel, the integrated circuit configured to schedule information at least partially based on a set of parameters transmitted over common channels. In addition, the integrated circuit may be configured to send information to at least one mobile device via a high-speed channel.

In accordance with another aspect of the invention, a method for using paging to retrieve information on high speed channels is described herein. The method may comprise receiving transmitted data on a paging indicator channel. The method may also include identifying a set of parameters included in the common channels, which determines the configuration of the corresponding data on the high-speed channel. In addition, the method may comprise decoding the corresponding data in accordance with a set of parameters.

Another aspect of the invention described herein relates to a wireless communication device, which may include memory. The memory may store instructions related to the reception of the transmitted data on the channel of the paging indicator, to identify a set of parameters included in the common channels, which determines the configuration of the corresponding data on the high-speed channel, and to decode the corresponding data in accordance with the set of parameters. In addition, the wireless communication device may include a processor attached to the memory and configured to execute instructions stored in the memory.

Another aspect of the invention relates to a wireless communication device, which provides the ability to retrieve information on high-speed channels. The device may include means for receiving transmitted data on the channel indicator search call. The device may also include means for identifying a set of parameters included in the common channels, which determines the configuration of the corresponding data on the high-speed channel. In addition, the device may include means for decoding the corresponding data in accordance with a set of parameters.

Another aspect of the invention relates to a machine-readable medium storing machine-executable instructions for receiving transmitted data on a paging indicator channel. The computer-readable medium may also contain instructions related to identifying a set of parameters included in common channels that determines the configuration of the corresponding data on the high-speed channel. In addition, the computer-readable medium may contain instructions for decoding the corresponding data in accordance with a set of parameters.

A further aspect of the invention described herein relates to an apparatus in a wireless communication system comprising an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit may be configured to receive transmitted data on a paging indicator channel. The integrated circuit can also be configured to detect a set of parameters included in the common channels, which determines the configuration of the corresponding data on the high-speed channel. In addition, the integrated circuit may be configured to decode the corresponding data in accordance with a set of parameters.

To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends, one or more embodiments includes distinctive features, hereinafter fully described and, in particular, set forth in the claims. The following description and the annexed drawings set forth in detail certain illustrative aspects of one or more embodiments. However, these aspects show only some of the various ways of using the principles of the various embodiments, and it is intended that the described embodiments include all such aspects and their equivalents.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

1 is an illustration of a wireless communication system in accordance with various aspects set forth herein.

2 is an illustration of an example communication device for use in a wireless communication environment.

FIG. 3 is an illustration of an example wireless communication system that enables mutual synchronization and operation between paging channels and high speed channels.

4 is an illustration of an example timing chart that indicates mutual synchronization in accordance with an aspect of the disclosure.

5 is an illustration of an example reciprocal timing diagram between a paging channel and a high speed channel in accordance with an aspect.

6 is an illustration of an example diagram that depicts the interoperability between paging indicators and high speed data.

7 is an illustration of an example diagram that depicts the interoperability between paging indicators and high speed data.

Fig. 8 is an illustration of an example diagram that depicts the interoperability between paging indicators and high speed data.

FIG. 9 is an illustration of an example diagram that depicts the interoperability between paging indicators and high speed data.

10 is an illustration of an example method that enables the use of a paging channel to notify mobile devices of data on high-speed channels.

11 is an illustration of an example method that enables reception of high speed data after notification on a paging channel.

12 is an illustration of an example mobile device that enables receiving a paging indicator that indicates data on a high speed channel.

13 is an illustration of an example system that enables the use of a paging channel in conjunction with high-speed channels.

14 is an illustration of an example wireless network environment that can be used in conjunction with the various systems and methods described herein.

FIG. 15 is an illustration of an example system that enables the use of a paging channel with high speed channels.

FIG. 16 is an illustration of an example system that receives high speed channel data based on a paging indicator.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The methods described herein can be used for various wireless communication systems, such as code division multiple access (CDMA), time division multiple access (TDMA), frequency division multiple access (FDMA), orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) single-carrier FDMA access (SC-FDMA) and other systems. The terms “system” and “network” are often used interchangeably. A CDMA system may implement wireless technology such as Universal Terrestrial Wireless Access (UTRA), CDMA2000, etc. UTRA technology includes CDMA Broadband Access (W-CDMA) and other CDMA technology options. CDMA2000 technology covers IS-2000, IS-95, and IS-856 standards. A TDMA system may implement a wireless technology such as a global system for mobile communications (GSM). OFDMA system can implement wireless technology, such as advanced universal terrestrial wireless access (Evolved UTRA or E-UTRA) technology, Ultra-mobile broadband UMB) technology, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 standards (Wi-Fi technology), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX technology), IEEE 802.20, Flash-OFDM® technology, etc. Universal Terrestrial Wireless Access (UTRA) and E-UTRA technologies are part of the Universal Mobile Communications System (UMTS). 3GPP LTE (Long Term Evolution) is the upcoming release of UMTS technology that uses E-UTRA and uses OFDMA on the downlink and SC-FDMA on the uplink. UTRA, E-UTRA, UMTS, LTE and GSM technologies are described in documents from an organization called the “Third Generation Network Partnership Project” (3GPP). CDMA2000 and UMB technologies are described in documents from an organization called the “Project-2 Partnership for Creating Third Generation Networks” (3GPP2).

Various embodiments will now be described with reference to the drawings, in which like reference numbers are used throughout to refer to like elements. In the following description, for purposes of explanation, numerous specific features are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of one or more embodiments. However, it is obvious that such embodiments can be implemented without these specific features. In other instances, well-known structures and devices are shown in block diagram form in order to facilitate describing one or more embodiments.

Used in this application, the terms "component", "module", "system", etc. intended to refer to an object associated with the use of a computer, which is either hardware, or firmware, or a combination of hardware and software, or software, or executable software. For example, a component can be, but is not limited to, a process running on a processor, a processor, an object, an executable program, a thread of execution, a program, and / or a computer. By way of example, both an application running on a computing device and a computing device may be a component. One or more components may be located in the process and / or thread of execution, and the component may be located on one computer and / or distributed between two or more computers. In addition, these components can be executed from various computer-readable media storing various data structures. Components can communicate through local and / or remote processes, for example, in accordance with a signal having one or more data packets (for example, data from one component interacting with another component in a local system, distributed system, and / or through a network such as the Internet , with other systems via signal).

In addition, various embodiments are described herein in connection with a mobile device. A mobile device may also be called a system, subscriber unit, subscriber station, mobile station, remote station, remote terminal, access terminal, user terminal, terminal, wireless device, user agent, or user equipment (UE). The mobile device may be a cellular telephone, a cordless telephone, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) telephone, a local radio communications station (WLL), a laptop computer (PDA), a portable device having wireless connectivity, or another data processing device connected to wireless modem. In addition, various embodiments are described herein in connection with a base station. A base station may be used to interact with mobile device (s) and may also be referred to as an access point, node B, or some other terminology.

In addition, the various aspects of the invention described herein or features may be implemented as a method, device, or product using standard software and / or engineering methods. It is understood that the term "product" as used herein encompasses a computer program accessible from any computer-readable device, carrier, or medium. For example, computer-readable media may include, but are not limited to, magnetic storage devices (e.g., hard disk, floppy disk, magnetic tapes, etc.), optical disks (e.g., compact disc (CD), digital versatile disk ( DVD), etc.), smart cards and flash memory devices (for example, erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), card, key drive, etc.). In addition, the various storage media described herein may represent one or more devices and / or other computer-readable media for storing information. The term “machine-readable medium” may include, but is not limited to, wireless channels and various other media that can store, contain and / or transfer command (s) and / or data.

1, a wireless communication system 100 is illustrated in accordance with various embodiments presented herein. System 100 includes a base station 102, which may include several groups of antennas. For example, one antenna group may comprise antennas 104 and 106, another group may comprise antennas 108 and 110, and an additional group may comprise antennas 112 and 114. Two antennas are illustrated for each antenna group, however, more or fewer antennas may be used for each group. Base station 102 may further comprise a transmitter circuit and a receiver circuit, each of which may in turn contain a plurality of components related to the transmission and reception of signals (e.g., processors, modulators, multiplexers, demodulators, demultiplexers, antennas, etc.), as will be appreciated by those skilled in the art.

Base station 102 can communicate with one or more mobile devices, such as mobile device 116 and mobile device 122, however, it should be understood that base station 102 can communicate with virtually any number of mobile devices, such as mobile devices 116 and 122. Mobile devices 116 and 122 may be, for example, cell phones, smartphones, laptops, handheld communication devices, handheld computing devices, satellite radios, global systems positioning devices, handheld computers (PDAs) and / or any other suitable device for communicating via the wireless communication system 100. As shown, the mobile device 116 interacts with antennas 112 and 114, the antennas 112 and 114 transmit information to the mobile device 116 on the forward link 118 and receive information from the mobile device 116 on the reverse link 120. In addition, the mobile device 122 interacts with antennas 104 and 106, the antennas 104 and 106 transmit information to the mobile device 122 on the forward link 124 and receive information from the mobile device 122 on the reverse link 126. In a frequency division duplex (FDD) system, the forward link 118 may use a frequency range different from that used by the reverse link 120, and the forward link 124 may use a frequency range different from the frequency range, for example, used by the reverse link 126. In addition, in a time division duplex (TDD) system, forward link 118 and reverse link 120 may use a common frequency range, and forward link 124 and reverse link 126 may use a common frequency range.

Each group of antennas and / or the area in which they are intended to communicate can be called a sector of the base station 102. For example, groups of antennas can be configured to communicate with mobile devices in the sector of the areas covered by the base station 102. When interacting on straight lines 118 and 124, transmitting antennas of the base station 102 may use beamforming to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the forward links 118 and 124 for mobile devices 116 and 122. In addition, and the base station 102 uses beamforming to transmit to mobile devices 116 and 122 randomly scattered over the corresponding coverage area, mobile devices in neighboring cells may be less affected than transmitting the base station through a single antenna to all of its mobile devices . In addition, mobile devices 116 and 122 can communicate directly with each other, as depicted, using peer-to-peer or ad hoc communication technology.

2, a communication device 200 for use in a wireless communication environment is illustrated. The communication device 200 may be a base station or part thereof, a mobile device or part thereof, or virtually any communication device that receives data transmitted in a wireless communication environment. The paging indicator channel (PICH) may be used to notify the mobile device that it may be being called. The mobile device reads another channel to authenticate the call. Traditionally, a mobile device reads an auxiliary common physical control channel (S-CCPCH). However, the communication device may use the PICH channel with high speed channels in addition to the channel S-CCPCH. For example, high speed channels may include high speed physical downlink shared channel (HS-PDSCH) and / or high speed shared control channel (HS-SCCH). The communication device may use the components described below to enable synchronization and operation of the PICH channel with high-speed channels. The communication device 200 may include a paging unit 202 that can transmit a paging indicator to one or more mobile devices, and a high speed transmission scheduling unit 204 that can schedule and transmit data corresponding to the PICH for the mobile device in accordance with the search indicator call.

According to an example, the communication device 200 may use the PICH along with the S-CCPH or high-speed channels to enable paging of a mobile device and / or multiple mobile devices. This may occur, for example, when the communication device 200 detects data (eg, an incoming call, download data, etc.) that must be transmitted to the mobile device. The paging unit 202 sends a paging indicator to the mobile device via the PICH. It should be understood that the paging block 202 may send multiple search call indicators to multiple mobile devices. In one embodiment, the paging indicator is set in a PICH channel frame by the paging block 202. The paging indicator notifies the mobile device that the data is located on at least one other channel. The mobile device reads other channels to make sure that the paging indicator does indicate the paging of the mobile device (for example, that the data on the other channel is the data of the mobile device). The paging unit 202 may communicate with both S-CCPCHs and high-speed channels, such as a high-speed shared control channel (e.g., HS-SCCH) and / or high-speed shared data channel (e.g., HS-DSCH, HS -PDSCH etc.). When the paging indicator is received by the user equipment or the mobile device, the paging indicator informs the mobile device that it should expect additional information, such as a full paging message, other control plane data or user plane data at a given point in time (for example, in a subframe) ) on the corresponding high-speed channels. The binding between the paging indicator and high-speed channels can be determined using a set of parameters set as a standard or communicated in service messages via common channels. Communication device 200 may provide a set of parameters that define the context, length, and timing of data on high-speed channels. In one embodiment, base station 200 may advertise a set of parameters on common channels. In accordance with another aspect, base station 200 may advertise a subset of the set on common channels, and the remaining parameters in the set may be announced for each transmission in specialized messages (e.g., reported on dedicated channels). In accordance with the illustration, a set of parameters can be transmitted, for example, on a broadcast channel along with other system information. It should be understood that other common channels may be used. For example, a parameter set or a subset of it may be transmitted over a high-speed shared control channel (for example, on the HS-SCCH). These parameters can be used by high-speed scheduling unit 204 to schedule data related to the paging indicator on a high-speed channel.

The high-speed transmission scheduling unit 204 may schedule data for a mobile device related to the paging indicator on the high-speed channel at least in part based on a set of parameters provided by the paging unit 202. The parameters indicate a set of subframes of a high speed shared control channel or subframes of a high speed shared data channel that relate to a paging indicator on a PICH. For example, a set of parameters may indicate several subframes that a mobile device should attempt to receive, several retransmissions possible in a HARQ request scenario, the degree of multiplexing or interlacing between subframes intended for different mobile devices, and / or the number of subframes that a mobile device should track after successful administration. The paging indicator installed in the PICH channel by the paging block 202 may indicate that the paging message, higher level service signals specific to the mobile device or data specific to the mobile device should be scheduled for the mobile device. High-speed transmission scheduling unit 204 may schedule a paging message, higher-level service signals, or mobile device specific data in one of the corresponding subframes on the high-speed channel. The high-speed transmission scheduling unit 204 determines an appropriate time for scheduling based on an offset determined for the channel lifetime.

3, a wireless communication system 300 is illustrated that can generate a paging indicator that can be used to receive data on a high speed channel, such as a high speed shared control channel and / or high speed shared data channel. System 300 includes a base station 302 that communicates with a mobile device 304 (and / or any number of separate mobile devices (not shown)). Base station 302 may transmit information to mobile device 304 over a forward link channel; in addition, base station 302 may receive information from mobile device 304 over a reverse link channel. In addition, system 300 may be a MIMO system. Additionally, system 300 may operate on an OFDMA wireless access network, 3GPP LTE wireless technology network, etc. In addition, in one example, the components and functionality shown and described below in base station 302 may also be present in mobile device 304 and vice versa; the configuration shown excludes these components for ease of explanation.

Base station 302 includes a paging unit 306 that can transmit a paging indicator 318 to one or more mobile devices, a high speed transmission scheduling unit 308 that can schedule and transmit data for a mobile device and corresponding to a paging indicator 318. Additionally, the base station 302 may include a parameter selection unit 310 that can determine a set of parameters 322 sent to the mobile device 304 via a common channel 320 (e.g., HS-SCCH, broadcast channel, etc.). Parameter set 322 may configure for mobile device 304 to be used when receiving data on high speed channel 324 in response to paging indicator 318. Parameter selector 310 may detect parameters 322 based on the context and information content of the data to be transmitted to mobile device 304, as well as based on the configurations of system 300. For example, parameter selector 310 can select parameters 322 for high speed transmission related to indicator 318 paging, so that the parameters 322 correspond to the configuration of the system 300 (for example, HARQ configurations, operation with the HS-SCCH, operation without the HS-SCCH, etc.).

Mobile device 304 includes a parameter analysis unit 312 that analyzes a set of parameters 322 to determine how data will be transmitted over high-speed channel 324 in association with paging indicator 318, and a high-speed transmission decoder 314 that retrieves data on the high-speed channel 324 (e.g., on the HS-SCCH, HS-PDSCH, HS-DSCH, etc.) in accordance with the analyzed parameters. In one example, the mobile device 304 may receive a paging indicator 318 from the base station 302 via a paging indicator channel 316, which indicates the possibility that the mobile device 304 is being called. Mobile device 304 may read another channel to find out if it is being called, and, if called, to retrieve data on another channel. According to an example, the other channel may be a high speed channel 324, and the extracted data may be high speed transmission data 326.

According to an example, the base station 302 may receive data for the mobile device 304. The data may be from another mobile device (eg, voice, data, etc.), a wired device in the network, connected to interact with the base station 302 server, etc. It should be understood that the base station 302 may possess data that must be transmitted to the mobile device 304 (e.g., power control data, destination data, etc.). The paging unit 306 of the base station 302 may transmit the paging indicator 318 to the mobile device 304 via the paging indicator channel (PICH) 316 to notify the mobile device 304 that the data is waiting. The timing of the paging indicator 318 may be based at least in part on the discontinuous reception (DRX) / wake-up cycle of the mobile device 304. For example, the paging unit 306 may set the paging indicator 318 when the mobile device 304 wakes up to listen for paging in each period DRX Paging unit 306 sets a paging indicator 318 in a PICH frame to notify mobile device 304 that high-speed transmission data 326 is scheduled in corresponding subframes of high-speed channel 324 (e.g., HS-SCCH or HS-PDSCH). In one aspect of the invention, high speed data 326 may include a paging message, higher level signaling specific to mobile device 304, or data specific to mobile device 304. According to an illustrative embodiment, the paging indicator 318 is set to PICH channel 316, indicates a set of corresponding subframes on high-speed channels 324. According to paging indicator 318, high-speed base transmission scheduling unit 308 station 302 schedules high-speed transmission data 326 on high-speed channels 324 in accordance with a set of parameters 322 set by the parameter selector 310 (e.g., schedules information for a set of corresponding subframes). The synchronization offset between the time when the PICH channel frame ends with the paging indicator 318 and the beginning of the first subframe in the set of corresponding subframes is set for the duration of the channels. The synchronization offset can be transmitted through the base station 302 on a common channel 320. The mobile device 304 can use the synchronization offset to properly synchronize the reception of the paging indicator 318 and the corresponding transmitted information 326 on the high-speed channels 324.

Base station 302 provides a parameter selection unit 310 that defines a parameter set 322 that can be transmitted as overheads on a common channel 320. Parameter set 322 relates to how data 326 corresponding to the paging indicator 318 is transmitted over a high speed channel 324. Parameter selector 310 detects a first set of high speed transmission subframes (eg, HS-SCCH / HS-PDSCH subframes) indicated by paging indicator 318. This parameter, which may be designated NUM_HS_SUBFRAMES_SET1, indicates the number of subframes that the mobile device 304 should attempt to receive. According to an aspect of the invention, this value may be n frames, where n is an integer value between 5 and 20 inclusive. In addition, the parameter selection unit 310 may determine a second set of subframes that the mobile device 304 should attempt to receive. The NUM_HS_SUBFRAMES_SET2 parameter indicates the number of subframes to which the mobile device 302 extends its tracking after successfully receiving the first set. In addition, the parameter selection unit 310 may determine the parameters corresponding to the hybrid automatic data retransmission request (HARQ) configurations. For example, parameter selector 310 may set the BLIND_HARQ_NUM_RETRANS parameter, which indicates the number of transmission retries for the forward link only. In addition, the parameter selection unit 310 may set the BLIND_HARQ_STRIDE parameter, which indicates the intervals in the subframes for the above retransmissions. In accordance with the illustration, the forward link transmission may be repeated BLIND_HARQ_NUM_RETRANS once every (BLIND_HARQ_STRIDE + 1) subframes. In accordance with an aspect of the invention, the BLIND_HARQ_NUM_RETRANS parameter may be an integer between 0 and 7 inclusive, and BLIND_HARQ_STRIDE may be set between 0 and 5 inclusive. Block 310 parameter selection can determine the upper and lower limits for the number of instances of HARQ requests based on the selected parameters. For example, the upper limit may be specified as (NUM_HS_SUBFRAMES_SET1 / (BLIND_HARQ_NUM_RETRANS + 1)), or the lower limit may be given by the same formula. In addition, the parameter selection unit 310 indicates to the high speed transmission scheduling unit 308 how to plan the HARQ requests. As illustrated, each (BLIND_HARQ_STRIDE + 1) HARQ request is interleaved. The gears are closely spaced when the pitch parameter is zero. When the step parameter is set to one, two HARQ requests alternate, and so on.

In accordance with another aspect of the invention, a parameter selection unit 310 may determine parameters based on the configurations of a network or other entity. For example, normal operations with and without the HS-SCCH may be used. However, the parameter selection unit 310 may indicate that the exact bit-wise repetition of the HS-SCCH should be used to enable the mobile device 304 to use chase combining. In addition, an HARQ request with increasing redundancy can be predefined, and the parameter selection unit 310 can use this predefined. In addition, the parameter selection unit 310 may optimize the encoding of the parameters in the common channel 320 to avoid combinations of parameters that cannot be achieved. In addition, it should be understood that the set of parameters 322 can be transmitted to the mobile device 304 during the negotiation of the communication session.

Mobile device 304, upon receipt of the paging indicator 318, can retrieve high-speed data 326 from base station 302 scheduled on another channel, such as an S-CCPCH, HS-SCCH, HS-PDSCH, or another high-speed channel. Parameter analysis section 312 analyzes the set of parameters 322 in common channel 320 to determine the parameters set by the parameter selection section 310 of base station 302. Parameters 322 instruct the mobile device 304 which subframes to receive and / or how the subframes are organized. The timing offset set for the channel life indicates when a set of corresponding subframes determined by the parameter analysis unit 312 is scheduled on the high-speed channels 324. The high-speed transmission decoder 314 of the mobile device 304 then receives and decodes the subframes according to the parameters. For example, high-speed decoder 314 receives and decodes subframes on high-speed channels 324 in the amount indicated by the corresponding parameter. After successfully receiving the first set of subframes, the high speed data decoder 314 monitors and attempts to receive the second set of subframes.

In accordance with another aspect, system 300 supports both HS-SCCH operations and operations without an HS-SCCH. These operations are configured by the network. In an operation without an HS-SCCH, the mobile device 304 is configured using a set of transport formats. In addition, the mobile device 304 is configured using one or more Walsh channels that can be blindly decoded. Furthermore, in accordance with an illustrative embodiment, two high speed downlink shared network (HS-DSCH) wireless transaction identifiers (H-RNTIs) are always monitored by mobile device 304. In one aspect, two H-RNTIs can be shared and a dedicated H-RNTI identifier.

4 is an illustrative timing diagram 400 that illustrates the synchronization of a PICH channel with a high speed channel. Timing diagram 400 depicts relative synchronization between multiple channels in a communication system. For example, the timing diagram 400 includes primary and secondary synchronization channels (SCH), any common control channel (CPICH), primary common control channel (P-CCPCH), auxiliary common control channel (S-CCPCH), paging indicator channel ( PICH), data indication channel access intervals (AICH), dedicated physical channel (DPCH), partial dedicated physical channel (F-DPCH), and HS-SCCH subframes. PICH can be used with both the S-CCPCH and the HS-SCCH. As shown in timing diagram 400, the S-CCPCH and HS-SCCH operate with different synchronization. Accordingly, offsets must be defined to account for timing differences.

Since the PICH can serve both the S-CCPCH and the HS-SCCH, conventional synchronization needs to be adjusted. Traditionally, the PICH serves the S-CCPCH and provides τ _PICH synchronization, which indicates the offset between the PICH and the corresponding S-CCPCH. In an embodiment, the TPICH channel has a duration of 7680 chips. However, this duration after the PICH frame may be aligned with the middle part of the HS-SCCH subframe. Accordingly, an additional offset τ _HS-SCCH should be established. In accordance with the illustration, the _HS-SCCH τ value is determined by the corresponding offset of the PICH channel frame and the HS-SCCH subframe, as illustrated in the timing diagram 400.

5, an illustrative timing diagram 500 is illustrated, which further depicts the timing between the PICH and the HS-SCCH. The timing diagram 500 includes a PICH frame 502, which includes a paging indicator indicating a set of corresponding sub-frames 504 of the HS-SCCH, and an offset 506 that determines the timing offset between them. According to an example, the first subframe of the HS-SCCH in the set of corresponding subframes 504 starts at τ _PICH + τ _{HS-SCCH of the} chips after the transmitted PICH frame 502, which includes a paging indicator. According to the illustration, τ _PICH = 7680 chips. Thus, the _HS-SCCH τ value can be defined as the offset between the time calculated as the end of the PICH frame, plus 7680 chips. According to an aspect of the invention, the value of τ _{HS-SCCH is} less than 7680 chips (for example, less than the duration of τ _PICH ). In accordance with another aspect, the value of τ _HS-SCCH may be zero. Thus, the duration τ _PICH is the only synchronization required and can only be relative to HS-SCCH / HS-DSCH. In addition, it should be understood that there may be several PICH channels that indicate multiple or multiple high-speed channels (for example, HS-SCCH and / or HS-DSCH).

6-9 illustrate diagrams in accordance with an aspect of the disclosure. For ease of explanation, the examples illustrate timing diagrams that include a PICH, an HS-SCCH, and an HS-PDSCH. Each block in the horizontal channel strip indicates a frame and / or subframe. It should be understood that Fig.6-9 are for illustrative purposes, and the disclosed subject is not limited by the context of these examples. Those skilled in the art should understand how timing diagrams can be extended to other channel collections, parameter combinations, etc.

FIG. 6 illustrates an example 600 that depicts the operation of a PICH channel for high speed transmission with two instances of user equipment UE1 and UE2. In example 600, the NUM_HS_SCCH_SET1 parameter is 5, the BLIND_HARQ_NUM_RETRANS parameter is 4, the BLIND_HARQ_STRIDE parameter is 0, and the BLIND_HS_SCCH_SET2 parameter is 0. As shown in example 600, the user equipment UE1 wakes up through 3 sub-frames of the HS-SCCH channel after the end of the radio frame PCH, self paging indicator for user equipment UE1. The user equipment UE1 attempts to decode any transmission with or without an HS-SCCH (for example, an HS-PDSCH) for 5 subframes. Transmission is repeated for 5 subframes. Then, the user equipment UE1 may use intermittent reception (DRX). Similarly, the user equipment UE2 wakes up 3 subframes after the end of the radio frame of the PICH, which includes a paging indicator for the user equipment UE2. The user equipment UE2 is configured to use an operation without the HS-SCCH and attempts to decode any transmission on the HS-PDSCH for the next 5 subframes.

FIG. 7 illustrates an example 700 that depicts the operation of a PICH channel for high speed transmission. In example 700, the NUM_HS_SCCH_SET1 parameter is 5, the BLIND_HARQ_NUM_RETRANS parameter is 4, the BLIND_HARQ_STRIDE parameter is 0, and the BLIND_HS_SCCH_SET2 parameter is 10. Thus, in example 700, the user equipment monitors and tries to receive 10 subframes after successfully receiving the first set under the same conditions as for the first set. The user equipment wakes up through 3 sub-frames of the HS-SCCH after the end of the radio frame of the PICH, which includes a paging indicator. The user equipment attempts to decode any transmission on the appropriate channels, including or not including the HS-SCCH, and the transmission is repeated in 5 consecutive subframes. If the user equipment successfully decodes the HS-SCCH or HS-PDSCH transmission specific to the user equipment, it attempts to receive packets in the next 10 subframes.

FIG. 8 illustrates an example 800 in accordance with an aspect of the disclosure. Example 800 is similar to example 700 illustrated in FIG. However, in Example 800, the PICH is aligned with the S-CCPCH. The S-CCPCH is not aligned with the radio frames of the P-CCPCH.

FIG. 9 illustrates an example 900 in accordance with another aspect of the disclosure. In Example 900, the operation of the PICH channel for high speed transmission is depicted with two instances of user equipment UE1 and UE2. In Example 900, the NUM_HS_SCCH_SET1 parameter is 12, the BLIND_HARQ_NUM_RETRANS parameter is 2, the BLIND_HARQ_STRIDE parameter is 1, and the BLIND_HS_SCCH_SET2 parameter is 0. As shown in this example, the user equipment UE1 and the user equipment UE2 wake up through 3 subframes in the radio frame after P, for which paging indicators for user equipment UE1 and user equipment UE2. The user equipment UE1 and the user equipment UE2 try to decode any transmission on the HS-SCCH or HS-PDSCH (for example, without the HS-SCCH) for the next 12 subframes. The transmission is repeated in 3 subframes, which are located after one frame. As shown in Example 900, the subframes intended for the user equipment UE1 alternate with the subframes intended for the user equipment UE2. After receiving 12 subframes, the user equipment UE1 and the user equipment UE2 can use the DRX mode.

10-11 show methods related to providing synchronization and operation for high speed transmission relative to the paging indicator on the PICH. Although, for the sake of ease of explanation, the methods are shown and described as a sequence of steps, it should be understood that the methods are not limited to the order of steps, since some steps in accordance with one or more embodiments may occur in other orders and / or simultaneously with other steps, unlike shown and described here. For example, those skilled in the art will understand that an alternative method can be represented as a sequence of interrelated states or events, as in a state diagram. In addition, not all illustrated steps may be required to implement a method in accordance with one or more embodiments.

10, a method 1000 is illustrated that enables the use of a paging channel to notify mobile devices of data on high speed channels. At 1002, parameters are determined that are transmitted to the mobile devices over a common channel to indicate how high-speed transmission data on high-speed channels should be received. In one aspect of the invention, the common channel may be a broadcast channel. It should be understood that a dedicated channel may also be used. For example, in accordance with the illustration, high-speed transmission data on high-speed channels is mapped to a paging indicator on a PICH channel. At 1004, high-speed transmission data is scheduled on the high-speed channel in accordance with the determined parameters. In one embodiment, the high-speed transmission data may be control data on a high-speed shared control channel (eg, on an HS-SCCH) or user data on a high-speed shared data channel (eg, on an HS-DSCH). For example, the parameters may determine the number of repetitions of a transmission and the degree of rotation between one or more transmissions intended for different mobile devices. At 1006, a paging indicator is transmitted to at least one mobile device. In accordance with the illustration, the paging indicator is linked to the established subframes scheduled on the high-speed channel in accordance with certain parameters. At 1008, high speed data is sent to at least one mobile device. High-speed transmission data is sent as scheduled in the set of corresponding subframes.

11, a method 1100 is illustrated that provides the ability to receive high speed data after notification on a paging channel. At 1102, a paging indicator is received on a paging channel, such as a PICH channel. The paging indicator on the PICH can indicate that the paging message, higher level service signals specific to the mobile device, or data specific to the mobile device are scheduled on the corresponding high speed channel. At 1104, data on a common channel is analyzed to determine the parameters contained therein. The parameters may specify how high-speed data corresponding to the paging indicator is scheduled on the high-speed channel. The parameters tell the mobile device how many subframes to try to receive, the configuration of the subframes, and whether to track after successful reception. At 1106, high-speed transmission data is obtained in accordance with the determined parameters. At 1108, additional high speed transmissions are tracked after successfully receiving the received high speed transmission data corresponding to the paging indicator.

It should be understood that, in accordance with one or more aspects of the invention described herein, conclusions can be made regarding the selection and / or determination of the parameters used in the paging indicator for determining data in respective high speed channels in a wireless communication network. As used herein, the term “draw conclusions” or “conclusion” generally refers to the process of reasoning or deriving the states of a system, environment, and / or user from a plurality of observations recorded through events and / or data. The conclusion can be used, for example, to identify a specific context or action, or it can form a probability distribution over states. The conclusion can be probabilistic - that is, the calculation of the probability distribution over states of interest based on a consideration of data and events. The output may also refer to methods used to compose high-level events from a variety of events and / or data. This conclusion gives as a result the construction of new events or actions from a set of observable events and / or stored data about events, whether events are correlated in proximity in time and whether events and data come from one or more sources of events and data.

12 is an illustration of a mobile device 1200 that provides the ability to receive a paging indicator that indicates data on a high speed channel. Mobile device 1200 comprises a receiver 1202 that receives a signal, for example, from a receiving antenna (not shown), performs typical actions (e.g., filtering, amplifying, down-converting, etc.) on the received signal and converts the converted signal to digital a form for obtaining samples. Receiver 1202 may include a demodulator 1204 that can demodulate received symbols and provide them to a processor 1206 for channel estimation. The processor 1206 may be a processor specialized for analyzing information received by the receiver 1202 and / or generating information for transmission by the transmitter 1216, a processor that controls one or more components of the mobile device 1200, and / or a processor that analyzes the information received by the receiver 1202, generates information for transmission by the transmitter 1216, and controls one or more components of the mobile device 1200.

Mobile device 1200 may further comprise a memory 1208 that is operatively coupled to processor 1206 and may store data to be transmitted, received data, information related to available channels, data related to the intensity of the analyzed signal and / or interference, information related to the assigned channel, power, speed, etc., and any other suitable information for channel estimation and interaction through the channel. Memory 1208 may further store protocols and / or algorithms related to channel estimation and / or use (e.g., based on performance, based on bandwidth, etc.).

It should be understood that the data store described here (for example, memory 1208) may be either volatile memory or non-volatile memory, or may include both volatile and non-volatile memory. For illustration, but not limitation, non-volatile memory may include read-only memory (ROM; ROM), programmable read-only memory (PROM; EPROM), electrically programmable read-only memory (EPROM; EEPROM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory ( EEPROM; EEPROM) or flash memory. Volatile memory may include random access memory (RAM; RAM), which acts as an external cache. By way of illustration, but not limitation, random access memory is available in many forms, such as synchronous random access memory (SRAM), dynamic random access memory (DRAM), synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM), synchronous dynamic random access memory double data transfer rate (DDR SDRAM), advanced synchronous dynamic random access memory (ESDRAM), dynamic random access memory Synchlink (SLDRAM) and Rambus random access memory (DRRAM). It is implied that the memory 1208 of the described systems and methods contains, but without limitation, these and any other suitable types of memory.

The processor 1206 may also be operatively coupled to a parameter analysis unit 1210 that can analyze the parameters received by the receiver 1202 to determine how data will be transmitted on a high speed channel corresponding to the paging indicator, for example, as described above. In one example, the paging indicator may indicate that a paging message, higher level service signals specific to user equipment, or device specific data is scheduled on a high speed channel. The common channel can transmit parameters that determine the organization and timing of the scheduled high speed data. The parameter analysis unit 1210 may certify the parameters to enable the mobile device 1200 to adjust accordingly to receive data.

The processor 1206 may also be operatively coupled to a high-speed transmission decoder 1212 that extracts high-speed transmission data on a high-speed channel (eg, on an HS-SCCH or HS-PDSCH) in accordance with parameters determined by the parameter analysis unit 1210. According to an example, mobile device 1200 may receive a paging indicator corresponding to data on a high speed channel, and high speed transmission decoder 1212 can receive and decode data based on parameters received in a common channel. In accordance with the illustration, the high-speed transmission decoder 1212 can decode the number of subframes indicated by the corresponding parameter on the high-speed channels. After successfully receiving the first set of subframes, the high-speed transmission decoder 1212 may monitor and attempt to receive the second set of subframes. The mobile device 1200 further comprises a modulator 1214 and a transmitter 1216, each of which respectively modulates and transmits signals, for example, to a base station, to another mobile device, etc. Although the parameter analysis unit 1210, the high-speed transmission decoder 1212, the demodulator 1204, and / or the modulator 1214 are shown as separate from the processor 1206, it should be understood that they may be part of the processor 1206 or several processors (not shown).

FIG. 13 is an illustration of a system 1300 that enables the use of a paging channel with high speed channels, as described above. System 1300 comprises a base station 1302 (e.g., an access point, etc.) with a receiver 1310 that receives signal (s) from one or more mobile devices 1304 through multiple receiving antennas 1306, and a transmitter 1324 that transmits to one or more mobile devices 1304 via a transmit antenna 1308. A receiver 1310 can receive information from receive antennas 1306 and is operatively connected to a demodulator 1312 that demodulates received information. The demodulated symbols are analyzed by a processor 1314, which may be similar to the processor described above with reference to FIG. 12, and which is coupled to a memory 1316 that stores information related to an estimate of signal intensity (eg, pilot signal) and / or interference intensity, data that must be transmitted to or received from mobile device 1304 (or a separate base station (not shown)), and / or any other suitable information relevant to performing the various actions set forth herein and functions. A processor 1314 is also attached to a paging block 1318, which can set paging indicators transmitted to one or more mobile devices 1304. In addition, a processor 1314 can be attached to a high speed transmission scheduling unit 1320, which can schedule and transmit high speed data corresponding to PICH channel, for mobile devices 1304 in accordance with the indicators of the search call and the parameters transmitted on the common channel.

According to an example, the base station 1302 may receive data for mobile devices 1304. The data may be from another mobile device (eg, voice, data, etc.), a wired device on the network, connected to interact with the base station 1302 server, etc. It should be understood that base station 1302 may possess data that must be transmitted to mobile devices 1304 (e.g., power control data, destination data, etc.). The paging unit 1318 may transmit the paging indicator to the mobile devices 1304 via the PICH to notify the mobile devices 1304 that the data is waiting. According to the paging indicator, the high-speed transmission scheduling unit 1320 of the base station 1302 schedules the paging message, higher level service signals and / or data on the high-speed channels in accordance with the parameters on the common channel (for example, schedules information in the set of corresponding subframes). Although the paging block 1318, high-speed scheduling block 1320, demodulator 1312, and / or modulator 1322 are depicted as separate from processor 1314, it should be understood that they may be part of processor 1314 or multiple processors (not shown).

FIG. 14 shows an example wireless communications system 1400. Wireless system 1400 for the sake of brevity depicts one base station 1410 and one mobile device 1450. However, it should be understood that the system 1400 may include more than one base station and / or more than one mobile device, with additional base stations and / or mobile the devices can be substantially similar to or different from the illustrative base station 1410 and mobile device 1450 described below. In addition, it should be understood that the base station 1410 and / or mobile device 1450 can use the systems described here (FIGS. 1-3 and 12-13), methods, configurations and examples (FIGS. 4-9) and / or methods ( 10-11) to enable wireless communication between them.

At base station 1410, information data for multiple data streams is provided from a data source 1412 to a transmission data processor 1414. According to an example, each data stream may be transmitted through a corresponding antenna. Transmission data processor 1414 formats, codes, and interleaves an information data stream based on a particular coding scheme selected for that data stream to provide encoded data.

The encoded data for each data stream can be multiplexed with pilot data using the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) method. Additionally or alternatively, the pilot symbols may be multiplexed by frequency division (FDM), time division (TDM) or code division (CDM). The control data is usually a known sample of data that is processed in a known manner, and can be used in the mobile device 1450 to estimate the channel response. Multiplexed control and encoded data for each data stream can be modulated (i.e., converted to symbols) based on a specific modulation scheme (e.g., binary phase modulation (BPSK), quadrature phase modulation (QPSK), M-level phase modulation (M-PSK ) or M-level quadrature amplitude-shift keying (M-QAM)) selected for each data stream to obtain modulation symbols. The data rate, coding, and modulation for each data stream may be determined by instructions executed or issued by processor 1430.

Modulation symbols for all data streams may be provided to a MIMO transmission processor 1420, which may further process the modulation symbols (eg, for OFDM multiplexing). The MIMO transmission processor 1420 then provides N _T modulation symbol streams to N _T transmitters 1422a through 1422t. In various embodiments, the MIMO transmission processor 1420 applies beamforming weights to the symbols of the data streams and to the antenna with which the symbol is transmitted.

Each transmitter 1422 receives and processes a respective symbol stream to provide one or more analog signals, and further processes (e.g., amplifies, filters, and upconverts) the analog signals to provide a modulated signal suitable for transmission over the MIMO channel. Then, N _T modulated signals from transmitters 1422a-1422t are transmitted from N _T antennas 1424a-1424t, respectively.

At mobile device 1450, the transmitted modulated signals are received by N _R antennas 1452a-1452r, and a received signal from each antenna 1452 is provided to respective receivers 1454a-1454r. Each receiver 1454 processes (eg, filters, amplifies, and downconverts) a corresponding received signal, digitizes the processed signal to produce samples, and then processes the samples to produce a corresponding “received” symbol stream.

A receive data processor 1460 may receive and process N _R received symbol streams from N _R receivers 1454 based on a particular receiver processing method to provide N _T “detected” symbol streams. A receive data processor 1460 may demodulate, reverse interlace, and decode each detected symbol stream to recover information data for the data stream. The processing by the reception data processor 1460 is complementary to that performed by the MIMO transmission processor 1420 and the transmission data processor 1414 at the base station 1410.

The processor 1470 may periodically determine which precoding matrix to use. In addition, processor 1470 may generate a reverse link message comprising a matrix index portion and a rank value portion.

The reverse link message may contain various types of information regarding the communication link and / or the received data stream. The reverse link message may be processed by a transmit data processor 1438, which also receives information data for several data streams from a data source 1436, modulated by a modulator 1480, processed by transmitters 1454a-1454r, and transmitted back to base station 1410.

At base station 1410, modulated signals from mobile device 1450 are received by antennas 1424, processed by receivers 1422, demodulated by demodulator 1440, and processed by receive data processor 1442 to retrieve the reverse link message transmitted by mobile device 1450. Then, processor 1430 can process the extracted message to determine which precoding matrix should be used to determine the radiation pattern weights.

Processors 1430 and 1470 can direct (eg, control, coordinate, etc.) the work in base station 1410 and mobile device 1450, respectively. Corresponding processors 1430 and 1470 can be associated with memory units 1432 and 1472 that store program codes and data. Processors 1430 and 1470 can also perform calculations to obtain frequency and impulse response estimates for the uplink and downlink, respectively.

It should be understood that the embodiments described herein may be implemented by hardware, software, firmware, middleware, microcode, or any combination thereof. For hardware implementations, processors can be implemented in one or more specialized integrated circuits (ASICs), digital signal processors (DSPs), digital signal processing devices (DSPDs), programmable logic devices (PLDs), programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), processors, controllers microcontrollers, microprocessors, other electronic elements configured to perform the functions described herein, or combinations thereof.

When embodiments are implemented in software, firmware, middleware or microcode, program code or code segments, they can be stored on a computer-readable medium, such as a storage component. A code segment may be a procedure, function, program, subprogram, module, program package, class, or any combination of instructions, data structures, or program statements. A code segment can be connected to another code segment or a hardware circuit by transmitting and / or receiving information, data, arguments, parameters or memory contents. Information, arguments, parameters, data, etc. can be sent or transmitted using any suitable means, including memory sharing, message passing, token transfer, network transfer, etc.

For a software implementation, the methods described herein may be implemented using modules (eg, procedures, functions, and so on) that perform the functions described herein. Program codes can be stored in memory blocks and executed by processors. The memory unit can be implemented in the processor or outside the processor, in the latter case it can be connected with the possibility of interaction with the processor through various means known in the art.

15, illustrated is a system 1500 that enables the use of a paging channel with high speed channels. For example, system 1500 may be located at least partially within a base station, mobile device, etc. It should be understood that the system 1500 is presented as including functional blocks, which may be functional blocks representing functions implemented by a processor, software, or a combination thereof (e.g., firmware). System 1500 includes a logical grouping 1502 of electrical components that can act in conjunction. For example, logical grouping 1502 may include an electrical component 1504 for transmitting a paging indicator on a paging indicator channel. For example, data intended for a mobile device may be scheduled and / or may be expected on another channel. The paging indicator informs the mobile device that it may be paging, and another channel should be read in order to authenticate and / or retrieve the data. In addition, logical grouping 1502 may include an electrical component for scheduling information on a high speed channel in accordance with a set of parameters. In an embodiment, the paging indicator channel may operate on a high speed channel (e.g., HS-SCCH, HS-PDSCH, etc.). A common channel may include parameters that determine when and how information should be planned on the high-speed channel. In addition, logical group 1502 may include an electrical component for sending information on a high speed channel. Planned information may be appropriately communicated. Additionally, system 1500 may include a memory 1510 that stores instructions for performing functions related to electrical components 1504, 1506 and 1508. Although electrical components 1504, 1506 and 1508 are shown as external to memory 1510, it should be understood that one or more of them may exist within the memory of 1510.

FIG. 16 illustrates a system 1600 that receives high-speed channel data based on a paging indicator in a wireless network. System 1600 may be located, for example, within a base station, mobile device, etc. As depicted, system 1600 includes functional elements that may represent functions implemented by a processor, software, or a combination thereof (e.g., firmware). System 1600 includes a logical grouping 1602 of electrical components that provide the ability to receive high-speed channel data in response to a paging indicator. Logic group 1602 may include an electrical component 1604 for receiving transmission on a paging indicator channel. The transmission may be a paging indicator that reports that a paging message, higher level service signals specific to user equipment, or data specific to user equipment are scheduled on a high speed channel. In addition, logical grouping 1602 may comprise an electrical component 1606 for a set of parameters in a common channel transmission. In addition, logical grouping 1602 may include an electrical component 1608 for decoding corresponding data on a high speed channel. For example, the identified parameter set can be used to configure a decoder to properly decode data based on a scheduled schedule. Additionally, system 1600 may include a memory 1610 that stores instructions for performing functions related to electrical components 1604, 1606 and 1608. Although electrical components 1604, 1606 and 1608 are shown as external to memory 1610, it should be understood that they may exist within 1610 memory.

The above description contains examples of one or more embodiments. Of course, it is not possible to describe every conceivable combination of components or methods in order to describe the aforementioned embodiments, but one of ordinary skill in the art will understand that it is possible to make many additional combinations and changes to various embodiments. Accordingly, it is intended that the described embodiments cover all such changes, modifications and variations that fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims. In addition, in cases where the term “includes” is used either in the detailed description or in the claims, such a term is interpreted in an inclusive sense, like the term “comprising” as a transition word in the claims.

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1. The method of using the channel indicator search call in conjunction with high-speed channels, comprising stages in which:
transmitting the paging indicator via the paging indicator channel to at least one mobile device;
planning information intended for at least one mobile device on a high-speed channel, the scheduling being at least partially based on a paging indicator and a set of parameters transmitted to said at least one mobile device on a common channel, wherein the set of parameters includes information related to the synchronization of one or more subframes of said high-speed channel; and
send information to the at least one mobile device via a high-speed channel. 2. The method according to claim 1, in which the set of parameters is divided into at least two subsets, and these at least two subsets include a fixed subset that contains fixed parameters declared over common channels, and a variable subset that contains variables parameters declared in connection with each transmission of information. 3. The method according to claim 1, in which the indicator search call indicates that it is expected to transmit additional information at a given point in time on the corresponding high-speed channel. 4. The method according to claim 3, in which the additional information includes at least one of the complete message search call, other data of the control plane and other data of the user plane. 5. The method according to claim 4, in which the additional information includes the planned information. 6. The method of claim 1, wherein the scheduled information includes at least one of a paging message, a higher level signaling specific to a mobile device, and data specific to a mobile device. 7. The method according to claim 1, wherein scheduling the information comprises the step of scheduling information in one or more subframes of the high speed channel. 8. The method according to claim 7, in which one or more subframes are set with a time offset after the end of the radio frame of the paging indicator channel, which includes the transmitted paging indicator. 9. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of selecting a set of parameters to be included in the common channels. 10. The method of claim 9, wherein said set of parameters includes at least one of a number of subframes in a high speed channel corresponding to a paging indicator, a number of retransmissions on a HARQ request, a step in a retransmission subframes on a HARQ request, or a number subframes in the high speed channel to be monitored after receiving the corresponding subframes. 11. The method of claim 1, wherein the high speed channel is at least one of a high speed shared control channel or a high speed shared data channel. 12. A wireless communications device, comprising:
a memory that stores instructions for transmitting the paging indicator on the channel of the paging indicator to at least one mobile device, scheduling information for at least one mobile device on a high speed channel, the scheduling being at least partially based on the paging indicator and the set parameters transmitted to said at least one mobile device via a common channel, wherein the parameter set includes information related to syn ronizatsiey one or more subframes of said high-speed channel, and sending information to said at least one mobile device over a high speed channel; and
a processor associated with memory and configured to execute instructions stored in memory. 13. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 12, wherein the set of parameters is divided into at least two subsets, the at least two subsets including a fixed subset that contains fixed parameters declared over common channels, and a variable subset that contains variable parameters declared in connection with each transmission of information. 14. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 12, wherein the paging indicator indicates that additional information is expected to be transmitted at a predetermined point in time on a corresponding high speed channel. 15. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 14, wherein the additional information includes at least one of a complete paging message, other control plane data, or other user plane data. 16. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 15, wherein the additional information includes scheduled information. 17. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 12, wherein the scheduled information includes at least one of a paging message, a higher level signaling specific to a mobile device, or data specific to a mobile device. 18. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 12, wherein the instructions for scheduling information comprise instructions for scheduling information in one or more subframes of a high speed channel. 19. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 18, wherein one or more subframes are temporarily offset after the end of the radio frame of the paging indicator channel, which includes a transmitted paging indicator. 20. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 12, wherein the memory further stores instructions for selecting a set of parameters to be included in the common channels. 21. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 20, wherein the set of parameters includes at least one of a number of subframes in a high speed channel corresponding to a paging indicator, a number of retransmissions on a HARQ request, a step in a retransmission subframes on a HARQ request, or a number subframes in the high speed channel to be monitored after receiving the corresponding subframes. 22. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 12, wherein the high speed channel is at least one of a high speed shared control channel or a high speed shared data channel. 23. A wireless communication device that provides the ability to service a high-speed channel using the channel indicator search call, containing:
means for transmitting a paging indicator on a channel of a paging indicator to at least one mobile device;
means for scheduling information intended for at least one mobile device on a high-speed channel, the scheduling being at least partially based on a paging indicator and a set of parameters transmitted to said at least one mobile device on a common channel, wherein the set of parameters includes information related to the synchronization of one or more subframes of said high-speed channel; and
means for sending information to the at least one mobile device via a high-speed channel. 24. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 23, wherein the set of parameters is divided into at least two subsets, the at least two subsets including a fixed subset that contains fixed parameters declared over common channels and a variable subset that contains variable parameters declared in connection with each transmission of information. 25. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 23, wherein the paging indicator indicates that additional information is expected to be transmitted at a predetermined point in time on a corresponding high speed channel. 26. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 25, wherein the additional information includes at least one of the full paging message, other control plane data, or other user plane data. 27. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 26, wherein the additional information includes scheduled information. 28. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 23, wherein the scheduled information includes at least one of a paging message, a higher level signaling specific to a mobile device, or data specific to a mobile device. 29. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 23, wherein the information scheduling means comprises information scheduling means in one or more subframes of the high speed channel. 30. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 29, wherein the one or more subframes are temporarily offset after the end of the radio frame of the paging indicator channel, which includes a transmitted paging indicator. 31. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 23, further comprising means for selecting a set of parameters included in the common channels. 32. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 31, wherein the set of parameters includes at least one of a number of subframes in a high speed channel corresponding to a paging indicator, a number of retransmissions on a HARQ request, a step in a retransmission subframes on a HARQ request, or the number of subframes in the high speed channel that should be monitored after receiving the corresponding subframes. 33. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 23, wherein the high speed channel is at least one of a high speed shared control channel or a high speed shared data channel. 34. A machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, prompt the machine:
transmit a paging indicator on a paging indicator channel to at least one mobile device;
to plan information intended for at least one mobile device on a high-speed channel, the scheduling being at least partially based on a paging indicator and a set of parameters transmitted to said at least one mobile device on a common channel, wherein the set of parameters includes information related to synchronizing one or more subframes of said high speed channel; and
send information to the at least one mobile device via a high-speed channel. 35. The computer-readable medium of claim 34, wherein the set of parameters is divided into at least two subsets, and these at least two subsets include a fixed subset that contains fixed parameters declared over common channels, and a variable subset that contains variables parameters declared in connection with each transmission of information. 36. The computer-readable medium of claim 34, wherein the paging indicator indicates that additional information is expected to be transmitted at a predetermined point in time over a corresponding high speed channel. 37. The computer-readable medium of claim 36, wherein the additional information includes at least one of a complete paging message, other control plane data, or other user plane data. 38. Machine-readable medium according to clause 37, and additional information includes the planned information. 39. The computer-readable medium of claim 34, wherein the scheduled information includes at least one of a paging message, a higher level signaling specific to a mobile device, or data specific to a mobile device. 40. The computer-readable medium of claim 34, wherein the instructions for scheduling information comprise machine-executable instructions for scheduling information in one or more subframes of a high speed channel. 41. The computer readable medium of claim 40, wherein one or more subframes are temporarily offset after the end of the radio frame of the paging indicator channel, which includes the transmitted paging indicator. 42. The computer-readable medium of claim 34, further comprising machine-executable instructions for selecting a set of parameters to be included in the common channels. 43. The computer-readable medium of claim 42, wherein the set of parameters includes at least one of a number of subframes in a high speed channel corresponding to a paging indicator, a number of retransmissions on a HARQ request, a step in a retransmission subframes on a HARQ request, or a number of subframes in the high-speed channel, which should be monitored after receiving the corresponding subframes. 44. The computer-readable medium of claim 34, wherein the high speed channel is at least one of a high speed shared control channel or a high speed shared data channel. 45. A device that provides the ability to service a high-speed channel using the channel indicator search call in a wireless communication system, comprising:
an integrated circuit configured to:
transmit a paging indicator on a paging indicator channel to at least one mobile device;
to schedule information intended for at least one mobile device on a high-speed channel, and the integrated circuit is configured to schedule information at least partially based on the search call indicator and a set of parameters transmitted to the at least one mobile device via a common channel, the set of parameters includes information related to the synchronization of one or more subframes of the aforementioned high-speed channel; and
send information to the at least one mobile device via a high-speed channel. 46. A method of using paging to retrieve information on high-speed channels, comprising stages in which:
receive the indicator search call on the channel indicator search call;
receive a set of parameters on a common channel that determines the configuration of the data on the high-speed channel, said set of parameters including information related to the synchronization of one or more subframes of said high-speed channel; and
decode said data in accordance with said set of parameters. 47. The method of claim 46, wherein the paging indicator indicates that at least one of the paging message, a higher level signaling specific to a mobile device, or data specific to a mobile device is scheduled on a corresponding high speed channel. 48. The method of claim 47, wherein the corresponding high speed channel is at least one of a high speed shared control channel (HS-SCCH) in operations with the HS-SCCH or a high speed shared data channel in operations without the HS-SCCH. 49. The method according to item 46, further comprising the step of configuring the mobile device at least partially based on the adopted set of parameters. 50. The method according to item 46, in which the set of parameters includes at least one of the number of subframes in the high-speed channel corresponding to the indicator search call, the number of retransmissions on request HARQ, the step in the subframes retransmission on request HARQ, or the number of subframes in the high-speed channel, which should be monitored after receiving the corresponding subframes. 51. A wireless communications device, comprising:
a memory that stores instructions for receiving a paging indicator on a paging indicator channel, receiving a parameter set on a common channel that determines the configuration of data on a high-speed channel, and decoding said data in accordance with said parameter set, said parameter set including information related to synchronizing one or more subframes of said high speed channel; and
a processor associated with memory and configured to execute instructions stored in memory. 52. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 51, wherein the paging indicator indicates that at least one of the paging message, a higher level signal specific to a mobile device, or data specific to a mobile device is scheduled on a corresponding high speed channel . 53. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 52, wherein the corresponding high-speed channel is at least one of a high-speed shared control channel (HS-SCCH) in operations with the HS-SCCH or high-speed shared data channel in operations without the HS-channel SCCH. 54. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 51, wherein the memory further stores instructions for configuring the mobile device at least in part based on the received set of parameters. 55. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 51, wherein the set of parameters includes at least one of a number of subframes in a high speed channel corresponding to a paging indicator, a number of retransmissions on a HARQ request, a step in a retransmission subframes on a HARQ request, or the number of subframes in the high speed channel that should be monitored after receiving the corresponding subframes. 56. A wireless communication device that provides the ability to extract information on high-speed channels, containing:
means for receiving a paging indicator on a paging indicator channel;
means for receiving a set of parameters on a common channel that determines the configuration of data on a high-speed channel, said set of parameters including information related to synchronization of one or more subframes of said high-speed channel; and
means for decoding said data in accordance with said set of parameters. 57. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 56, wherein the paging indicator indicates that at least one of the paging message, higher-level signaling specific to the mobile device, or data specific to the mobile device is scheduled on the corresponding high-speed channel . 58. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 57, wherein the corresponding high-speed channel is at least one of a high-speed shared control channel (HS-SCCH) in operations with the HS-SCCH channel or a high-speed shared data channel in operations without the HS-channel SCCH. 59. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 56, further comprising means for configuring the mobile device, at least in part, based on the received set of parameters. 60. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 56, wherein the set of parameters includes at least one of a number of subframes in a high speed channel corresponding to a paging indicator, a number of retransmissions on a HARQ request, a step in a retransmission subframes on a HARQ request, or the number of subframes in the high speed channel that should be monitored after receiving the corresponding subframes. 61. A machine-readable medium storing commands that, when executed, prompt the machine:
receive the indicator search call on the channel indicator search call;
receive a set of parameters on a common channel that determines the configuration of data on a high-speed channel, said set of parameters including information related to synchronization of one or more subframes of said high-speed channel; and
decode said data in accordance with said set of parameters. 62. The computer readable medium of claim 61, wherein the paging indicator indicates that at least one of the paging message, a higher level alarm specific to a mobile device, or data specific to a mobile device is scheduled on a corresponding high speed channel. 63. The computer-readable medium of claim 62, wherein the corresponding high-speed channel is at least one of a high-speed shared control channel (HS-SCCH) in operations with an HS-SCCH or a high-speed shared data channel in operations without an HS-SCCH. 64. The computer-readable medium of claim 61, further comprising machine-executable instructions for configuring the mobile device at least in part based on the received set of parameters. 65. The computer-readable medium of claim 61, wherein the parameter set includes at least one of a number of subframes in a high speed channel corresponding to a paging indicator, a number of retransmissions on a HARQ request, a step in a retransmission subframes on a HARQ request, or a number of subframes in the high-speed channel, which should be monitored after receiving the corresponding subframes. 66. A device that provides the ability to service a high-speed channel using the channel indicator search call in a wireless communication system, comprising:
an integrated circuit configured to:
receive the indicator search call on the channel indicator search call;
receive a set of parameters on a common channel that determines the configuration of data on a high-speed channel, said set of parameters including information related to synchronization of one or more subframes of said high-speed channel; and
decode said data in accordance with said set of parameters.

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