US20090135754A1 - Interference management in a wireless communication system using overhead channel power control - Google Patents

Interference management in a wireless communication system using overhead channel power control Download PDF

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US20090135754A1
US20090135754A1 US12/276,897 US27689708A US2009135754A1 US 20090135754 A1 US20090135754 A1 US 20090135754A1 US 27689708 A US27689708 A US 27689708A US 2009135754 A1 US2009135754 A1 US 2009135754A1
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  • This application relates generally to wireless communication and more specifically, but not exclusively, to improving communication performance.
  • Wireless communication systems are widely deployed to provide various types of communication (e.g., voice, data, multimedia services, etc.) to multiple users.
  • various types of communication e.g., voice, data, multimedia services, etc.
  • small-coverage base stations may be deployed (e.g., installed in a user's home) to provide more robust indoor wireless coverage to mobile units.
  • Such small-coverage base stations are generally known as access points, base stations, Home NodeBs, or femto cells.
  • Such small-coverage base stations are connected to the Internet and the mobile operator's network via a DSL router or a cable modem.
  • radio frequency (“RF”) coverage of small-coverage base stations may not be optimized by the mobile operator and deployment of such base stations may be ad-hoc, RF interference issues may arise. Moreover, soft handover may not be supported for small-coverage base stations. Lastly a mobile station may not be allowed to communicate with the access point which has the best RF signal due to restricted association (i.e., closed subscriber group) requirement. Thus, there is a need for improved interference management for wireless networks.
  • RF radio frequency
  • the disclosure relates to managing interference through determination of an optimal power level for an overhead (i.e., control) channel for a call between an access point and an associated access terminal.
  • an overhead i.e., control
  • a method of communication includes determining an optimized power level for an overhead channel of an unplanned access point to an associated access terminal during a call therebetween. When the optimized power level is determined, the overhead channel is transmitted from the unplanned access point at the optimized power level to an associated access terminal.
  • an apparatus for communication includes an interference controller configured to determine an optimized power level for an overhead channel of an unplanned access point to an associated access terminal during a call therebetween. When the optimized power level has been determined, a communication controller transmits the overhead channel from the unplanned access point at the optimized power level to the associated access terminal.
  • FIG. 1 is a simplified block diagram of several sample aspects of a communication system
  • FIG. 2 is a simplified block diagram illustrating several sample aspects of components in a sample communication system
  • FIG. 3 is a flowchart of several sample aspects of operations that may be performed to manage interference
  • FIG. 4 is a simplified diagram of a wireless communication system
  • FIG. 5A is a simplified diagram of a wireless communication system including femto nodes
  • FIG. 5B is a simplified diagram of a specific arrangement of femto nodes and access terminals illustrating negative geometries
  • FIG. 6 is a simplified diagram illustrating coverage areas for wireless communication
  • FIG. 7 is a flowchart of several sample aspects of operations that may be performed to manage interference through the use of beam and null steering;
  • FIG. 8 is a flowchart of several sample aspects of operations that may be performed to manage interference through the use of optimized reduced power levels for an overhead channel;
  • FIG. 9 is a flowchart of several sample aspects of operations that may be performed to manage interference through the use of optimized reduced power levels for an overhead channel;
  • FIG. 10 is a flowchart of several aspects of operations that may be performed to manage interference through the use of frequency selective transmission to address jamming and negative geometries;
  • FIGS. 11A-11B are flowcharts of several aspects of operations that may be performed to manage interference through the use of adaptive noise figure and path loss adjustment;
  • FIG. 12 is a flowchart of several aspects of operations that may be performed to manage interference through the use of subframe time reuse techniques
  • FIG. 13 is a slot diagram illustrating time sharing among femto nodes that may be performed to manage interference through the use of hybrid time reuse techniques
  • FIG. 14 is a flowchart of several aspects of operations that may be performed to manage interference through the use of hybrid time reuse;
  • FIG. 15 is a simplified block diagram of several sample aspects of communication components.
  • FIGS. 16-21 are simplified block diagrams of several sample aspects of apparatuses configured to manage interference as taught herein.
  • an aspect disclosed herein may be implemented independently of any other aspects and that two or more of these aspects may be combined in various ways.
  • an apparatus may be implemented or a method may be practiced using any number of the aspects set forth herein.
  • such an apparatus may be implemented or such a method may be practiced using other structure, functionality, or structure and functionality in addition to or other than one or more of the aspects set forth herein.
  • an aspect may comprise at least one element of a claim.
  • the teachings herein may be employed in a network that includes macro scale coverage (e.g., a large area cellular network such as a 3G networks, typically referred to as a macro cell network) and smaller scale coverage (e.g., a residence-based or building-based network environment).
  • macro scale coverage e.g., a large area cellular network such as a 3G networks, typically referred to as a macro cell network
  • smaller scale coverage e.g., a residence-based or building-based network environment.
  • AT access terminal
  • ANs access nodes
  • the smaller coverage nodes may be used to provide incremental capacity growth, in-building coverage, and different services (e.g., for a more robust user experience).
  • a node that provides coverage over a relatively large area may be referred to as a macro node.
  • a node that provides coverage over a relatively small area e.g., a residence
  • a femto node A node that provides coverage over an area that is smaller than a macro area and larger than a femto area may be referred to as a pico node (e.g., providing coverage within a commercial building).
  • a cell associated with a macro node, a femto node, or a pico node may be referred to as a macro cell, a femto cell, or a pico cell, respectively.
  • each cell may be further associated with (e.g., divided into) one or more sectors.
  • a macro node may be configured or referred to as an access node, base station, access point, eNodeB, macro cell, and so on.
  • a femto node may be configured or referred to as a Home NodeB, Home eNodeB, access point, base station, femto cell, and so on.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates sample aspects of a communication system 100 where distributed nodes (e.g., access points 102 , 104 , and 106 ) provide wireless connectivity for other nodes (e.g., access terminals 108 , 110 , and 112 ) that may be installed in or that may roam throughout an associated geographical area.
  • the access points 102 , 104 , and 106 may communicate with one or more network nodes (e.g., a centralized network controller such as network node 114 ) to facilitate wide area network connectivity.
  • network nodes e.g., a centralized network controller such as network node 114
  • An access point such as access point 104 may be restricted whereby only certain access terminals (e.g., access terminal 110 ) are allowed to access the access point, or the access point may be restricted in some other manner.
  • a restricted access point and/or its associated access terminals may interfere with other nodes in the system 100 such as, for example, an unrestricted access point (e.g., macro access point 102 ), its associated access terminals (e.g., access terminal 108 ), another restricted access point (e.g., access point 106 ), or its associated access terminals (e.g., access terminal 112 ).
  • the closest access point to given access terminal may not be the serving access points for that access terminal. Consequently, transmissions by that access terminal may interfere with reception at the access terminal.
  • frequency reuse, frequency selective transmission, interference cancellation and smart antenna e.g., beamforming and null steering
  • other techniques may be employed to mitigate interference.
  • FIG. 2 Sample operations of a system such as the system 100 will be discussed in more detail in conjunction with the flowchart of FIG. 2 .
  • the operations of FIG. 2 may be described as being performed by specific components (e.g., components of the system 100 and/or components of a system 300 as shown in FIG. 3 ). It should be appreciated, however, that these operations may be performed by other types of components and may be performed using a different number of components. It also should be appreciated that one or more of the operations described herein may not be employed in a given implementation.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates several sample components that may be incorporated into the network node 114 (e.g., a radio network controller), the access point 104 , and the access terminal 110 in accordance with the teachings herein. It should be appreciated that the components illustrated for a given one of these nodes also may be incorporated into other nodes in the system 100 .
  • the network node 114 e.g., a radio network controller
  • the access point 104 e.g., a radio network controller
  • the network node 114 , the access point 104 , and the access terminal 110 include transceivers 302 , 304 , and 306 , respectively, for communicating with each other and with other nodes.
  • the transceiver 302 includes a transmitter 308 for sending signals and a receiver 310 for receiving signals.
  • the transceiver 304 includes a transmitter 312 for transmitting signals and a receiver 314 for receiving signals.
  • the transceiver 306 includes a transmitter 316 for transmitting signals and a receiver 318 for receiving signals.
  • the access point 104 communicates with the access terminal 110 via one or more wireless communication links and the access point 104 communicates with the network node 114 via a backhaul. It should be appreciated that wireless or non-wireless links may be employed between these nodes or other in various implementations.
  • the transceivers 302 , 304 , and 306 may include wireless and/or non-wireless communication components.
  • the network node 114 , the access point 104 , and the access terminal 110 also include various other components that may be used in conjunction with interference management as taught herein.
  • the network node 114 , the access point 104 , and the access terminal 110 may include interference controllers 320 , 322 , and 324 , respectively, for mitigating interference and for providing other related functionality as taught herein.
  • the interference controller 320 , 322 , and 324 may include one or more components for performing specific types of interference management.
  • the network node 114 , the access point 104 , and the access terminal 110 may include communication controllers 326 , 328 , and 330 , respectively, for managing communications with other nodes and for providing other related functionality as taught herein.
  • the network node 114 , the access point 104 , and the access terminal 110 may include timing controllers 332 , 334 , and 336 , respectively, for managing communications with other nodes and for providing other related functionality as taught herein.
  • the other components illustrated in FIG. 3 will be discussed in the disclosure that follows.
  • the interference controller 320 and 322 are depicted as including several controller components. In practice, however, a given implementation may not employ all of these components.
  • a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) controller component 338 or 340 may provide functionality relating to HARQ interlace operations as taught herein.
  • a profile controller component 342 or 344 may provide functionality relating to transmit power profile or receive attenuation operations as taught herein.
  • a timeslot controller component 346 or 348 may provide functionality relating to timeslot portion operations as taught herein.
  • An antenna controller component 350 or 352 may provide functionality relating to smart antenna (e.g., beamforming and/or null steering) operations as taught herein.
  • a receive noise controller component 354 or 356 may provide functionality relating to adaptive noise figure and path loss adjustment operations as taught herein.
  • a transmit power controller component 358 or 360 may provide functionality relating to transmit power operations as taught herein.
  • a time reuse controller component 362 or 364 may provide functionality relating to time reuse operations as taught herein.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates how the network node 114 , the access point 104 , and the access terminal 110 may interact with one another to provide interference management (e.g., interference mitigation). In some aspects, these operations may be employed on an uplink and/or on a downlink to mitigate interference.
  • interference management e.g., interference mitigation
  • FIG. 2 may be employed in the more specific implementations that are described in conjunction with FIGS. 7-14 below. Hence, for purposes of clarity, the descriptions of the more specific implementations may not describe these techniques again in detail.
  • the network node 114 may optionally define one or more interference management parameters for the access point 104 and/or the access terminal 110 .
  • Such parameters may take various forms.
  • the network node 114 may define types of interference management information. Examples of such parameters will be described in more detail below in conjunction with FIGS. 7-14 .
  • the definition of interference parameters may involve determining how to allocate one or more resources.
  • the operations of block 402 may involve defining how an allocated resource (e.g., a frequency spectrum, etc.) may be divided up for fractional reuse.
  • the definition of fraction reuse parameters may involve determining how much of the allocated resource (e.g., how many HARQ interlaces, etc.) may be used by any one of a set of access points (e.g., restricted access points).
  • the definition of fraction reuse parameters also may involve determining how much of the resource may be used by a set of access points (e.g., restricted access points).
  • the network node 114 may define a parameter based on received information that indicates whether there may be interference on an uplink or a downlink and, if so, the extent of such interference. Such information may be received from various nodes in the system (e.g., access points and/or access terminals) and in various ways (e.g., over a backhaul, over-the-air, and so on).
  • various nodes in the system e.g., access points and/or access terminals
  • ways e.g., over a backhaul, over-the-air, and so on.
  • one or more access points may monitor an uplink and/or a downlink and send an indication of interference detected on the uplink and/or downlink to the network node 114 (e.g., on a repeated basis or upon request).
  • the access point 104 may calculate the signals strength of signals it receives from nearby access terminals that are not associated with (e.g., served by) the access point 104 (e.g., access terminals 108 and 112 ) and report this to the network node 114 .
  • each of the access points in the system may generate a load indication when they are experiencing relatively high loading.
  • Such an indication may take the form of, for example, a busy bit in 1xEV-DO, a relative grant channel (“RGCH”) in 3GPP, or some other suitable form.
  • RGCH relative grant channel
  • an access point may send this information to its associated access terminal via a downlink.
  • such information also may be sent to the network node 114 (e.g., via the backhaul).
  • one or more access terminals may monitor downlink signals and provide information based on this monitoring.
  • the access terminal 110 may send such information to the access point 104 (e.g., which may forward the information to the network node 114 ) or to the network node 114 (via the access point 104 ).
  • Other access terminals in the system may send information to the network node 114 in a similar manner.
  • the access terminal 110 may generate measurement reports (e.g., on repeated basis).
  • a measurement report may indicate which access points the access terminal 110 is receiving signals from, a received signal strength indication associated with the signals from each access point (e.g., Ec/Io), the path loss to each of the access points, or some other suitable type of information.
  • a measurement report may include information relating to any load indications the access terminal 110 received via a downlink.
  • the network node 114 may then use the information from one or more measurement reports to determine whether the access point 104 and/or the access terminal 110 are relatively close to another node (e.g., another access point or access terminal). In addition, the network node 114 may use this information to determine whether any of these nodes interfere with any other one of these nodes. For example, the network node 114 may determine received signal strength at a node based on the transmit power of a node that transmitted the signals and the path loss between these nodes.
  • the access terminal 110 may generate information that is indicative of the signal to noise ratio (e.g., signal and interference to noise ratio, SINR) on a downlink.
  • information may comprise, for example a channel quality indication (“CQI”), a data rate control (“DRC”) indication, or some other suitable information.
  • CQI channel quality indication
  • DRC data rate control
  • this information may be sent to the access point 104 and the access point 104 may forward this information to the network node 114 for use in interference management operations.
  • the network node 114 may use such information to determine whether there is interference on a downlink or to determine whether interference in the downlink is increasing or decreasing.
  • the interference-related information may be used to determine how to mitigate interference.
  • CQI or other suitable information may be received on a per-HARQ interlace basis whereby it may be determined which HARQ interlaces are associated with the lowest level of interference.
  • a similar technique may be employed for other fractional reuse techniques.
  • the network node 114 may define parameters in various other ways. For example, in some cases the network node 114 may randomly select one or more parameters.
  • the network node 114 (e.g., the communication controller 326 ) sends the defined interference management parameters to the access point 104 .
  • the access point 104 uses these parameters and in some cases the access point 104 forwards these parameters to the access terminal 110 .
  • the network node 114 may manage interference in the system by defining the interference management parameters to be used by two or more nodes (e.g., access points and/or access terminals) in the system. For example, in the case of a fractional reuse scheme, the network node 114 may send different (e.g., mutually exclusive) interference management parameters to neighboring access points (e.g., access points that are close enough to potentially interfere with one another). As a specific example, the network node 114 may assign a first HARQ interlace to the access point 104 and assign a second HARQ interlace to the access point 106 . In this way, communication at one restricted access point may not substantially interfere with communication at the other restricted access point.
  • the network node 114 may assign a first HARQ interlace to the access point 104 and assign a second HARQ interlace to the access point 106 . In this way, communication at one restricted access point may not substantially interfere with communication at the other restricted access point.
  • the access point 104 determines interference management parameters that it may use or that may send to the access terminal 110 .
  • this determination operation may simply involve receiving the specified parameters and/or retrieving the specified parameters (e.g., from a data memory).
  • the access point 104 determines the interference management parameters on its own. These parameters may be similar to the parameters discussed above in conjunction with block 202 . In addition, in some cases these parameters may be determined in a similar manner as discussed above at block 202 .
  • the access point 104 may receive information (e.g., measurement reports, CQI, DRC) from the access terminal 110 .
  • the access point 104 may monitor an uplink and/or a downlink to determine the interference on such a link.
  • the access point 104 also may randomly select a parameter.
  • the access point 104 may cooperate with one or more other access points to determine an interference management parameter. For example, in some cases the access point 104 may communicate with the access point 106 to determine which parameters are being used by the access point 106 (and thereby selects different parameters) or to negotiate the use of different (e.g., mutually exclusive) parameters. In some cases, the access point 104 may determine whether it may interfere with another node (e.g., based on CQI feedback that indicates that another node is using a resource) and, if so, define its interference management parameters to mitigate such potential interference.
  • the access point 104 may cooperate with one or more other access points to determine an interference management parameter. For example, in some cases the access point 104 may communicate with the access point 106 to determine which parameters are being used by the access point 106 (and thereby selects different parameters) or to negotiate the use of different (e.g., mutually exclusive) parameters. In some cases, the access point 104 may determine whether it may interfere with another node (e.g., based on C
  • the access point 104 may send interference management parameters or other related information to the access terminal 110 .
  • this information may relate to power control (e.g., specifies uplink transmit power).
  • the access point 104 may thus transmit to the access terminal 110 on the downlink or the access terminal 110 may transmit to the access point 104 on the uplink.
  • the access point 104 may use its interference management parameters to transmit on the downlink and/or receive on the uplink.
  • the access terminal 110 may take these interference management parameters into account when receiving on the downlink or transmitting on the uplink.
  • the access terminal 110 may define one or more interference management parameters. Such a parameter may be used by the access terminal 110 and/or sent (e.g., by the communication controller 330 ) to the access point 104 (e.g., for use during uplink operations).
  • FIG. 4 illustrates a wireless communication system 400 , configured to support a number of users, in which the teachings herein may be implemented.
  • the system 400 provides communication for multiple cells 402 , such as, for example, macro cells 402 A- 402 G, with each cell being serviced by a corresponding access node 404 (e.g., access nodes 404 A- 404 G).
  • access terminals 406 e.g., access terminals 406 A- 406 L
  • Each access terminal 406 may communicate with one or more access nodes 404 on a downlink (DL) (also known as forward link (FL)) and/or an uplink (UL) (also known as a reverse link (RL)) at a given moment, depending upon whether the access terminal 406 is active and whether it is in soft handoff, for example.
  • the wireless communication system 400 may provide service over a large geographic region. For example, macro cells 402 A- 402 G may cover a few blocks in a neighborhood.
  • FIG. 5A illustrates an exemplary communication system 500 where one or more femto nodes are deployed within a network environment.
  • the system 500 includes multiple femto nodes 510 (e.g., femto nodes 510 A and 510 B) installed in a relatively small scale network environment (e.g., in one or more user residences 530 ).
  • Each femto node 510 may be coupled to a wide area network 540 (e.g., the Internet) and a mobile operator core network 550 via a DSL router, a cable modem, a wireless link, or other connectivity means (not shown). As will be discussed below, each femto node 510 may be configured to serve associated access terminals 520 (e.g., access terminal 520 A) and, optionally, non-associated (alien) access terminals 520 (e.g., access terminal 520 F).
  • a wide area network 540 e.g., the Internet
  • a mobile operator core network 550 via a DSL router, a cable modem, a wireless link, or other connectivity means (not shown).
  • each femto node 510 may be configured to serve associated access terminals 520 (e.g., access terminal 520 A) and, optionally, non-associated (alien) access terminals 520 (e.g., access terminal 520 F).
  • access to femto nodes 510 may be restricted whereby a given access terminal 520 may be served by a set of designated home femto node(s) 510 but may not be served by any non-designated foreign (alien) femto nodes 510 (e.g., a neighbor's femto node 510 ).
  • FIG. 5B illustrates a more detailed view of negative geometries of multiple femto nodes and access terminals within a network environment.
  • the femto node 510 A and femto node 510 B are respectively deployed in neighboring user residence 530 A and user residence 530 B.
  • Access terminals 520 A- 520 C are permitted to associate and communicate with femto node 510 A, but not with femto node 510 B.
  • access terminal 520 D and access terminal 520 E are permitted to associate and communicate with femto node 510 B, but not with femto node 510 A.
  • Access terminal 520 F and access terminal 520 G are not permitted to associate or communicate with either femto node 510 A or femto node 510 B. Access terminal 520 F and access terminal 520 G may be associated with a macro cell access node 560 ( FIG. 5A ), or another femto node in another residence (not shown).
  • FIG. 6 illustrates an example of a coverage map 600 where several tracking areas 602 (or routing areas or location areas) are defined, each of which includes several macro coverage areas 604 .
  • areas of coverage associated with tracking areas 602 A, 602 B, and 602 C are delineated by the wide lines and the macro coverage areas 604 are represented by the hexagons.
  • the tracking areas 602 also include femto coverage areas 606 .
  • each of the femto coverage areas 606 e.g., femto coverage area 606 C
  • a macro coverage area 604 e.g., macro coverage area 604 B.
  • a femto coverage area 606 may not lie entirely within a macro coverage area 604 .
  • a large number of femto coverage areas 606 may be defined with a given tracking area 602 or macro coverage area 604 .
  • one or more pico coverage areas may be defined within a given tracking area 602 or macro coverage area 604 .
  • the owner of a femto node 510 may subscribe to mobile service, such as, for example, 3G mobile service, offered through the mobile operator core network 550 .
  • an access terminal 520 may be capable of operating both in macro environments and in smaller scale (e.g., residential) network environments. In other words, depending on the current location of the access terminal 520 , the access terminal 520 may be served by an access node 560 of the macro cell mobile network 550 or by any one of a set of femto nodes 510 (e.g., the femto nodes 510 A and 510 B that reside within a corresponding user residence 530 ).
  • a femto node 520 may be backward compatible with existing access terminals 520 .
  • a femto node 510 may be deployed on a single frequency or, in the alternative, on multiple frequencies. Depending on the particular configuration, the single frequency or one or more of the multiple frequencies may overlap with one or more frequencies used by a macro node (e.g., node 560 ).
  • an access terminal 520 may be configured to connect to a preferred femto node (e.g., the home femto node of the associated access terminal 520 ) whenever such connectivity is possible. For example, whenever the access terminal 520 is within the user's residence 530 , it may be desired that the access terminal 520 communicate only with the home femto node 510 .
  • a preferred femto node e.g., the home femto node of the associated access terminal 520
  • the access terminal 520 may continue to search for the most preferred network (e.g., the home femto node 510 ) using a Better System Reselection (“BSR”), which may involve a periodic scanning of available systems to determine whether better systems are currently available, and subsequent efforts to associate with such preferred systems.
  • BSR Better System Reselection
  • the access terminal 520 may limit the search for specific band and channel. For example, the search for the most preferred system may be repeated periodically.
  • the access terminal 520 selects the femto node 510 for camping within its coverage area.
  • a femto node may be restricted in some aspects. For example, a given femto node may only provide certain services to certain access terminals. In deployments with so-called restricted (or closed) association, a given access terminal may only be served by the macro cell mobile network and a defined set of femto nodes (e.g., the femto nodes 510 that reside within the corresponding user residence 530 ). In some implementations, a node may be restricted to not provide, for at least one node, at least one of: signaling, data access, registration, paging, or service.
  • a restricted or foreign (alien) femto node (which may also be referred to as a Closed Subscriber Group Home NodeB) is one that provides service to a restricted provisioned set of access terminals. This set may be temporarily or permanently extended as necessary.
  • a Closed Subscriber Group (“CSG”) may be defined as the set of access nodes (e.g., femto nodes) that share a common access control list of access terminals.
  • a channel on which all femto nodes (or all restricted femto nodes) in a region operate may be referred to as a femto channel.
  • an open femto node may refer to a femto node with no restricted association.
  • a restricted femto node may refer to a femto node that is restricted in some manner (e.g., restricted for association and/or registration).
  • a home femto node may refer to a femto node on which the access terminal is authorized to access and operate on.
  • a guest femto node may refer to a femto node on which an access terminal is temporarily authorized to access or operate on.
  • a restricted or foreign (alien) femto node may refer to a femto node on which the access terminal is not authorized to access or operate on, except for perhaps emergency situations (e.g., 911 calls).
  • an associated or home access terminal may refer to an access terminal that authorized to access the restricted femto node.
  • a guest access terminal may refer to an access terminal with temporary access to the restricted femto node.
  • a non-associated (alien) access terminal may refer to an access terminal that does not have permission to access the restricted femto node, except for perhaps emergency situations, for example, such as 911 calls (e.g., an access terminal that does not have the credentials or permission to register with the restricted femto node).
  • a pico node may provide the same or similar functionality for a larger coverage area.
  • a pico node may be restricted, a home pico node may be defined for a given access terminal, and so on.
  • a wireless multiple-access communication system may simultaneously support communication for multiple wireless access terminals.
  • each terminal may communicate with one or more base stations via transmissions on the downlink (forward link) and uplink (reverse link).
  • the downlink refers to the communication link from the base stations to the terminals
  • the uplink refers to the communication link from the terminals to the base stations.
  • This communication link may be established via a single-in-single-out system, a multiple-in-multiple-out (“MIMO”) system, or some other type of system.
  • MIMO multiple-in-multiple-out
  • a MIMO system employs multiple (NT) transmit antennas and multiple (N R ) receive antennas for data transmission.
  • a MIMO channel formed by the NT transmit and N R receive antennas may be decomposed into N S independent channels, which are also referred to as spatial channels, where N S ⁇ min ⁇ N T , N R ⁇ .
  • Each of the N S independent channels corresponds to a dimension.
  • the MIMO system may provide improved performance (e.g., higher throughput and/or greater reliability) if the additional dimensionalities created by the multiple transmit and receive antennas are utilized.
  • a MIMO system may support time division duplex (“TDD”) and frequency division duplex (“FDD”).
  • TDD time division duplex
  • FDD frequency division duplex
  • the forward and reverse link transmissions are on the same frequency region so that the reciprocity principle allows the estimation of the downlink (forward link) channel from the uplink (reverse link) channel. This enables the access point to extract transmit beam-forming gain on the downlink when multiple antennas are available at the access point.
  • the femto node 510 A and femto node 510 B are deployed in neighboring residences.
  • Access terminals 520 A- 520 C are permitted to associate and communicate with femto node 510 A, but not with femto node 510 B.
  • access terminals 520 D- 520 E are permitted to associate and communicate with femto node 510 B, but not with femto node 510 A.
  • Access terminals 520 F- 520 G are not permitted to associate or communicate with either femto nodes 510 A- 510 B. Access terminals 520 F- 520 G may be associated with a macro cell access node 560 ( FIG. 5A ), or another femto node in another residence (not shown). Accordingly, such negative geometries respecting access-permitted femto nodes and neighboring access terminals may result if various interfering or jamming conditions on the uplink and downlink.
  • L A3 (dB) and L A5 (dB) be the path loss between femto node 510 A and access terminal 520 C and access terminal 520 D, respectively.
  • L A3 may be much larger than L A5 .
  • access terminal 520 D transmits to its home femto node 510 B, it causes excessive interference (or jamming) at femto node 510 A, effectively blocking the reception of access terminals 520 A-C at femto node 510 A.
  • the received C/I for access terminal at femto node 510 A may be characterized as:
  • the C/I of access terminal 520 C at femto node 510 A may be a very large negative value due to the large value of L A3 .
  • Such a configuration geometry is referred to as a highly negative uplink geometry.
  • L B5 may be much larger than L A5 . This implies that when femto node 510 A transmits to access terminal 520 A, it may cause excessive interference (or jamming) at access terminal 520 D, effectively blocking the reception of femto node 510 B at access terminal 520 D. In this downlink jamming situation, the received C/I for femto node 510 B at access terminal 520 D may be calculated as follows:
  • the C/I of femto node 510 B at access terminal 520 D may be a very large negative value due to the large value of L B5 .
  • Such a configuration geometry is referred to as a highly negative downlink geometry.
  • a further practical consideration includes addressing negative geometries without necessitating modifications to the operation of deployed (legacy) access terminals. Therefore, it is desirable in the present exemplary embodiment to address interference mitigation from negative geometries through modification processes in a femto node rather than requiring modifications to access terminals. Accordingly, negative geometries at the uplink and downlink are desirably addressed according to an exemplary embodiment disclosed below.
  • the present exemplary embodiment uses methods and apparatus to prevent jamming and negative geometries using beamsteering and null steering in unplanned base station deployments with restricted access.
  • nearby signals may be Rician by nature which includes a strong directional component and flat fading across the frequency band (due to the small delay-spread and multiple reflected paths in indoor environments).
  • sectorization may provide a desirable method for combating a strong Rician component of interference.
  • a femto node 510 continuously listens (i.e., receives according to the various receiver configurations describe herein) for transmissions from access terminals 520 .
  • the femto node 510 determines if an access probe (e.g., transmission) by an access terminal are directed to the femto node 510 . If the detected access probe of the access terminal is directed to the specific femto node 510 , then, as represented by block 706 , no interference mitigation is necessary since the access terminal is an “associated” access terminal with the “home” femto node.
  • femto node 510 further compares a characteristic (e.g., power level) of the access probe for determining if the characteristic is of a sufficient threshold level to result in interference at the home femto node.
  • a characteristic e.g., power level
  • the access probe does not exceed an interference threshold, then, as represented by block 706 , no interference mitigation is necessary since the characteristic of the access probe by the “home” femto node 510 results in acceptable interference.
  • the home femto node 510 when the home femto node 510 receives a sufficiently strong (i.e., greater than an interference threshold) access probe or otherwise strong uplink transmission from the non-associated access terminal 520 , the home femto node 510 applies beam-forming (i.e., directional transmission and reception) antennas to steer signals or lack of signals (e.g., nulls) toward the non-associated access terminal 520 on the downlink and uplink.
  • beam-forming i.e., directional transmission and reception
  • beam-forming i.e., beam-steering
  • a sectorized or directional antenna configuration described herein for forming a transmission signal beam and/or null or a reception signal beam and/or null.
  • interference nulling may be provided on a received Radio Frequency (RF) signal thereby reducing problems such as front-end overload and A/D desensitization of the receiver which results from jamming femto nodes.
  • RF Radio Frequency
  • sectorized or directional antenna configurations enable the downlink and uplink to maintain the same directional component for use in both link directions.
  • downlink pilot and overhead transmissions, as well as traffic channel transmissions if any, are transmitted according to beam-forming such that minimal energy is directed towards a nearby non-associated access terminal. Steering a transmission signal away from a non-associated access terminal results in reduction in the negative geometry at the non-associated access terminal.
  • a directional null is steered towards the nearby non-associated access terminal 520 using the antenna configuration (e.g., sectorized antennas or null-steering with adaptive phased arrays) described herein. Therefore, when an associated access terminal 520 attempts to communicate with the home femto node 510 , the associated access terminal's access probe, as well as other traffic (e.g., voice/data) communications is not jammed by the strong transmissions from the nearby non-associated access terminals having negative geometries.
  • the antenna configuration e.g., sectorized antennas or null-steering with adaptive phased arrays
  • AP can monitor the AT access probe characteristics on both antennas. If it is determined that the strong uplink transmission from the non-associated access terminal at one of the antennas, AP can turn off transmit function (beam steering) and turn off receive function (null steering) on that antenna.
  • the femto node 510 eliminates the sectorization null in the receive direction to determine, as represented in block 702 , if the strong undesired non-associated access terminal 520 has moved or terminated its communication. If, as represented in query 704 , the strong undesired signal has disappeared, the femto node 510 can eliminate the sectorization null and continue operation with omni-directional transmit and receive, as represented in block 706 .
  • the femto node 510 can adjust the transmit and receive sectorization null steering, as represented in block 710 , in the direction of the undesired non-associated access terminal 520 .
  • FIG. 5B illustrates femto node 510 A steering a receive and transmit sectorization null in the direction of non-associated access terminal 520 D as long as non-associated access terminal 520 D was present and in an active call with femto node 510 B.
  • femto node 510 A would revert back to operating with omnidirectional transmit and receive.
  • the femto node 510 steers the sectorization nulls (i) as long as the strong undesired non-associated access terminal 520 is active, and (ii) only if the undesired transmission from the non-associated access terminal 520 exceeds a high signal strength threshold at the receiver as determined at query 408 , signifying that access probes from desired associated access terminals would not be decodable at the femto node 510 .
  • femto node 510 B would have no need to steer a sectorization null towards non-associated access terminal 520 A since the signal from non-associated access terminal 520 A is not very strong. If femto node 510 B steers such a sectorization null towards non-associated access terminal 520 A, the sectorization null would resulting an outage at desired associated access terminal 520 E.
  • the AP can not determine the direction of the interference from the non-associated access terminal (e.g., very strong jamming that saturates the AP receiver) it can try different directions for beam steering and null steering to maximize the received signal quality from associated AT.
  • the non-associated access terminal e.g., very strong jamming that saturates the AP receiver
  • the present exemplary embodiment uses methods and apparatus to prevent jamming and negative geometries using optimized transmit power levels on overhead channels in unplanned base station deployments.
  • the transmit power gain of overhead channels and total transmit power of a femto node are chosen based on the desired range of a femto node.
  • the overhead channels e.g., common control channels such as pilot, synch and broadcast/paging
  • the overhead channels may be time multiplexed.
  • the overhead channels may be turned on only periodically, for example at the slot cycle index of the associated access terminals, so that the associated access terminals may receive paging messages.
  • a femto node may not transmit any signal at all.
  • an exemplary embodiment describes a method for optimizing transmit power for overhead signals (e.g., pilot, synch and broadcast/paging channels) when there is an active call at a femto node and time multiplexing of overhead signals is not practical.
  • overhead signals e.g., pilot, synch and broadcast/paging channels
  • overhead channel e.g., pilot, page, sych. channels
  • gain settings are adjusted for certain performance based on geometry and coverage constraints.
  • femto node deployments exhibit some significant differences when compared to macro cell access node deployments. Various differences include:
  • femto nodes 510 can result in very different optimal power settings for overhead channels for femto nodes 510 . Since a femto node 510 generally will have few to no active access terminals 520 , it would be desirable for the overhead channels to be maintained at a minimum power setting in order to minimize interference to neighboring cells serviced by femto nodes 510 and cells serviced by macro cell access nodes 560 (i.e., assuming co-channel operation). By way of example, one exemplary embodiment focuses on pilot channel optimization, however, the analysis can be applied to other overhead channels as well.
  • an optimal traffic-to-pilot (“T2P”) value for the case of a single voice call is determined as well as a default pilot power setting, Ecp DEFAULT .
  • the pilot power is adjusted so as to maintain the smallest value of total transmitted power and interference caused by the neighbor femto node.
  • an access terminal 520 A at the boundary of home femto node 510 A and neighbor femto node 510 B exhibits equal path loss to both femto nodes 510 and the neighbor femto node 520 B is transmitting at full power thereby creating interference, Ior_max.
  • the home femto node 510 A is transmitting a pilot channel at a gain level, Ecp
  • the pilot signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) can be written as: Ecp/Ior_max.
  • the pilot channel gain level Ecp is initialized to Ecp DEFAULT .
  • Ecp DEFAULT a default value of Ecp (Ecp DEFAULT ) can be determined based on a reasonable load and path loss differential values expected in femto networks.
  • a traffic call (e.g., voice call) is set up between the home femto 510 A and an access terminal 520 A with the power used on traffic channel denoted as Ect.
  • the Ect value is determined by the downlink (forward link) power control, as represented by query 806 .
  • Downlink (forward link FL) power control is used to maintain the required quality of service (e.g., packet error rate, PER).
  • Downlink (forward link FL) power controls may either designate a decrease in Ect as represented by block 808 , an increase in Ect as represented by block 810 , or no change in Ect.
  • PER packet error rate
  • Ecp OPTIMAL is determined where:
  • Ecp OPTIMAL arg ⁇ ⁇ min Ecp ⁇ [ Ecp + f [ Ecp ) ]
  • the T2P OPTIMAL is determined as:
  • simulations may be run to find the Ecp OPTIMAL and Ect OPTIMAL for typical channel types expected in cells of femto nodes using, for example, flat fading models, either Rayleigh or Rician, with low Doppler that can be tracked by power control.
  • These optimal values depend, in one exemplary embodiment, on the particular path loss differential of the access terminal to neighbor femto node and the interference power received from the neighbor femto node (e.g., if the mobile terminal has 3 dB less path loss to neighbor femto compared to home femto, then the optimal Ecp and Ect values would need to increased by 3 dB).
  • Ecp DEFAULT a default value of Ecp
  • the following algorithm can be run for each of a plurality of calls occurring between a femto node and multiple associated access terminals.
  • the pilot channel gain level Ecp is initialized to Ecp DEFAULT for analysis of each voice call.
  • Ecp DEFAULT a default value of Ecp (Ecp DEFAULT ) can be determined based on a reasonable load and path loss differential values expected in femto networks.
  • the process is repeated for each call set up between the home femto 510 A and associated access terminals 520 with the power used on traffic channel denoted as Ect.
  • the Ect value is determined by the downlink (forward link FL) power control, as represented by query 906 .
  • Downlink (forward link FL) power control is used to maintain the required quality of service (e.g., packet error rate, PER).
  • Downlink (forward link FL) power controls may either designate a decrease in Ect as represented by block 908 , an increase in Ect as represented by block 910 , or no change in Ect.
  • PER packet error rate
  • the T2P FILTERED (e.g., Ect FILTERED /Ecp FILTERED ) is monitored during the call.
  • the purpose of filtering T2P would be to eliminate small scale fluctuations from the T2P calculation.
  • a moving average filter can be used to filter Ect and Ecp values to compute Ect FILTERED and Ecp FILTERED respectively.
  • T2P FILTERED As represented in query 920 , a determination is made as to the value of T2P FILTERED . If T2P FILTERED >T2P OPTIMAL + ⁇ 1 , then as represented in block 922 Ecp is increased to
  • ECP Ect FILTERED /T 2P OPTIMAL .
  • T2P FILTERED As represented in query 924 , a determination is made as the value of T2P FILTERED . If T2P FILTERED ⁇ T2P OPTIMAL ⁇ 2 , then as represented in block 926 Ecp is decreased to
  • Ecp max[ Ect FILTERED /T 2 P OPTIMAL ,Ecp DEFAULT ].
  • T2P OPTIMAL depends on particular traffic configuration (rate, coding etc.). For example, if two users are performing voice calls with same rate vocoders, they would have same T2P OPTIMAL . However if there is another user performing data transfer (e.g., 1xRTT data transfer at 153 kbps) it would require a different T2P OPTIMAL . Once the T2P OPTIMAL is determined for given user (based on its traffic type), then the algorithm automatically adjusts Ecp. The above algorithm is specified for one user. If there are multiple users, then the algorithm may result in different Ecp values for each user. However, overhead channels are common to all users and we can only have one Ecp setting. Thus the algorithm could be generalized to a multiple users case.
  • Another option could be to find the optimal Ecp such that total power transmitted as overhead and traffic to all users is minimized. This would mean a modification of the calculation of box 814 to:
  • Ecp OPTIMAL arg ⁇ ⁇ min Ecp ⁇ [ Ecp + f 1 ⁇ ( Ecp 1 ) + ... + f N ⁇ ( Ecp N ) ]
  • T2P For users 1 to N in the femtocell.
  • the purpose of filtering T2P would be to eliminate small scale fluctuations from the T2P calculation.
  • a moving average filter can be used to filter Ect and Ecp values to compute Ect FILTERED and Ecp FILTERED respectively.
  • the optimal T2P may be obtained through simulations and once the T2P is decided, power control adjust Ect (which is part of standard 3G operation) may be determined. Then the Ecp is adjusted to achieve/maintain optimal T2P. Specifically, two algorithms may run together: 1) the power control algorithm adjusting Ect and 2) the adjustment of Ecp described herein.
  • a ⁇ 1 and ⁇ 2 are hystheresis parameters used to prevent fast fluctuations of Ecp. Furthermore, in order to prevent abrupt changes of Ecp equations above may be modified, in one exemplary embodiment, to let the Ecp correction to be performed more slowly. Lastly, other overhead channels (e.g., page, sych) can be adjusted based on the pilot power level (i.e., their relative power level with respect to pilot power level can be kept constant).
  • exemplary embodiments have been described for reducing transmit power for overhead signals (e.g., pilot, synch and broadcast/paging channels) when there is an active call at a femto node by determining an optimal overhead signal power level.
  • overhead signals e.g., pilot, synch and broadcast/paging channels
  • the exemplary embodiment has been disclosed by way of example using in the pilot channel as the exemplary channel, however, the analysis can be applied to other overhead channels as well.
  • the received SINR for an associated access terminal can become very low due to interference from a neighbor femto node transmission. This interference degrades control channel and traffic channel performance for the access terminal and may result in outages or decreased services.
  • the exemplary embodiment disclosed herein addresses operations to improve the performance of an access terminal in a high interference area without the need to change legacy access terminals.
  • each femto node 510 selects transmit pulse shaping via channel sensing from available waveforms, for example, from three 3-tap channel waveforms, with each coefficient set from a given row of, for example, a 3 ⁇ 3 DFT matrix.
  • the transmitted waveform would be filtered by a three tap FIR (in addition to normal baseband filtering) with filter impulse responses selected from one of the following three waveforms:
  • h 1 [n] ⁇ [n]+ ⁇ [n ⁇ 2]+ ⁇ [ n ⁇ 4]
  • N 2 ⁇ 2 DFT
  • FIG. 10 describes method for interference management in a wireless communication system transmit waveform selection.
  • a set of N transmit waveforms are allocated to femto nodes 510 for use in downlink transmissions.
  • the channel waveforms may be formed from coefficients of an N-tap channel filter with each coefficient set being derived from a specific row in an N ⁇ N DFT matrix.
  • a femto node 510 selects a default waveform upon initialization (e.g., power up) according to a defined selection process (e.g., randomization, randomly assigned by the network, etc.).
  • the default waveform from the set of N transmit (downlink) waveforms.
  • the default waveform is initially assigned as the preferred transmit waveform, TxWave PREFERRED .
  • the femto node 510 transmits on the downlink using the preferred transmit waveform when a call is initiated.
  • Call setup with the associated access terminal 520 occurs and includes channel quality indications (e.g., Channel Quality Indicator CQI, Data Rate Control DRC) determined by the access terminal 520 and forwarded to the femto node 510 on the uplink.
  • channel quality indications e.g., Channel Quality Indicator CQI, Data Rate Control DRC
  • the femto node initiates a waveform testing cycle for a time period of T_test_waveform until all the possible waveforms have been tested.
  • the femto node 510 communicates with the associated access terminal 520 using the current waveform.
  • the associated access terminal receives the downlink transmissions and generates a channel quality indication in response to the signal quality.
  • the channel quality indication is forwarded in the uplink (reverse link) to the femto node 510 .
  • the femto node monitors the uplink to determine the channel quality using the current waveform based on the received channel quality indication.
  • the femto node 510 may either form a table of waveforms and corresponding channel quality indications, or compare the current channel quality indication with any previous channel quality indications and retained an indication of the preferred waveform.
  • the waveform testing increments to the next allocated waveform for continued evaluation.
  • the exemplary waveform selection process iterates until the possible waveforms have been engaged for transmission on the downlink and the corresponding channel quality indication has been received on the uplink.
  • the preferred waveform based upon channel quality determination is then selected as the preferred transmit waveform which provides the best channel quality in the presence of interference from negative geometries associated with deployments of other unplanned base station deployments.
  • the preferred waveform may be periodically updated based upon various factors including a specific time period, call termination, channel quality degradation threshold or other channel conditions know by those of ordinary skill in the art.
  • processing Upon an update determination, processing returns to evaluate the channel quality of the various possible transmit waveforms.
  • the present exemplary embodiment manages interference from strong neighboring interference energy due to orthogonality of the Fourier series on the dominant signal energy during convolution, at the expense of creating self-noise through ISI and thereby limiting performance at high geometry. Further gains could be achieved with the use of MMSE equalizer due to different frequency coloring of impulse responses for the desired and interference signals. This mechanism is feasible in a femto node configuration as the delay spread is significantly smaller than one chip interval.
  • the present exemplary embodiment uses methods and apparatus to prevent jamming and address jamming and negative geometries using adaptive noise figures and path loss adjustments.
  • femto nodes are connected to the Internet 540 and the mobile operator core network 550 via a wide band connection (e.g., DSL router or cable modem). Since the RF coverage of femto nodes 510 is not manually optimized by the mobile operator core network 550 and deployment is generally ad hoc, serious RF interference issues may arise unless appropriate interference mitigation methods are utilized.
  • a wide band connection e.g., DSL router or cable modem
  • access terminals 520 and macro cell access nodes 560 are designed to operate in a certain dynamic range.
  • a home femto node 510 and an associated access terminal 520 may be arbitrarily spatially nearby, thus creating very high signal levels beyond the sensitivity range of the respective receivers.
  • On a downlink (forward link FL) such a configuration can saturate the receiver of associated access terminal and create degraded demodulation performance.
  • On the reverse link such a configuration can create very high noise rise (RoT), also known to create instability at the home femto node 510 .
  • RoT very high noise rise
  • maximum and minimum transmit power levels and receiver noise figure values need to be adjusted accordingly for home femto nodes 510 . This situation is illustrate in FIG. 5B with reference to home femto node 510 A and associated access terminal 520 A.
  • Femto nodes 510 B can cause interference both on the uplink UL (reverse link RL)) and in the downlink DL (forward link FL) of cells serviced by macro cell access nodes 560 .
  • a femto node 510 B installed, for example, near a window of a residence 530 B can cause significant downlink DL interference to the access terminals 520 F outside the house (i.e., non-associated access terminal) that are not served by the femto node 510 B.
  • the associated access terminals 520 that are served by a specific home femto node 510 can cause significant interference on the macro cell access nodes 560 .
  • non-associated access terminals 520 F that are served by the macro cell access nodes 560 can cause significant interference on the home femto node 510 A.
  • femto nodes 510 can also create significant interference to each other due to unplanned deployment.
  • a femto node 510 installed near a wall separating two residences 530 can cause significant interference to a neighboring femto node 510 in an adjacent residence 530 .
  • the strongest signal (in terms of RF signal strength) from a femto node 510 to an access terminal 520 may not necessarily be the associated access terminal's home femto node due to restricted association requirement described above.
  • femto node 510 A may cause significant interference (e.g., low SINR) to access terminal 520 D. Also, on the uplink UL, non-associated access terminal 520 D may cause significant interference (e.g., high RoT) to foreign (alien) femto node 510 A.
  • significant interference e.g., low SINR
  • non-associated access terminal 520 D may cause significant interference (e.g., high RoT) to foreign (alien) femto node 510 A.
  • RoT For stable system operation on the uplink UL, RoT needs to be controlled. Typically, RoT is controlled to be around 5 dB and higher. High RoT values can cause significant performance degradation. For example, in FIG. 5B for the two neighboring cells formed by femto nodes 510 A and 510 B, high RoT caused by access terminal 520 D at femto node 510 A results in performance degradation for associated access terminal 520 C.
  • One specific interfering scenario occurs when neighbor access terminal 520 D has bursty uplink UL traffic and exhibits overly high power levels (e.g., in close proximity) at femto node 510 A.
  • the RoT at femto node 510 A goes above 20 dB.
  • the uplink UL power control mechanism in CDMA systems e.g., CDMA2000, WCDMA, 1xEV-DO
  • the mechanism may take some time for femto node 510 A to power control associated access terminal 520 C to overcome the interference caused by non-associated access terminal 520 D.
  • the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) of associated access terminal 520 C falls below required levels resulting in consecutive packet errors on the uplink UL from associated access terminal 520 C to home femto node 510 A.
  • SIR signal-to-interference ratio
  • one alternative could be to increase the power control step size on the uplink UL as conveyed from home femto node 510 A to associated access terminal 520 C.
  • the power control step size there are usually upper limits on the power control step size imposed by the communication standards since other system degradations occur when a system operates at very high power control step size.
  • the noise figure NF can be increased or the received signal can be attenuated by adding some path loss (PL) component on the uplink UL.
  • PL path loss
  • such an operation is performed at the femto node experiencing high levels of interference.
  • FIG. 5B if both femto node 510 A and femto node 510 B increase the noise figure NF or attenuation by the same amount, the result is larger uplink UL transmit power levels for both access terminals 520 C and access terminal 520 D. As a result, the high RoT problem occurring at femto node 510 A is not remedied.
  • the femto node exhibiting high RoT, femto node 510 A in the present scenario increases its noise figure NF or attenuation level while femto nodes not exhibiting high RoT, femto node 510 B in the present scenario, keep their noise figures NFs constant as long as they are not experiencing high levels of out-of-cell interference.
  • a method is provided to adjust the noise figure NF or attenuation when there is high level of out-of-cell interference at a particular femto node.
  • RoT at a given time slot n can be expressed as:
  • Ec i is the total received energy per user i.
  • FIGS. 11A-11B describe a method for interference management in a wireless communication system using adaptive noise figure and path loss adjustment to adaptively adjust path loss for controlling RoT. It is noted that the adjustment factor can be applied either to uplink UL attenuation or the noise figure NF of the femto node.
  • the operations described herein may occur periodically, such as upon the occurrence of a subsequent time slot n.
  • the femto node 510 may perform the following method to provide interference management to a communication system.
  • various signals are measured and levels are computed.
  • a thermal noise figure: No(n) is measured at the femto node 510 .
  • the thermal noise figure No(n) is the variance of the thermal noise including the femto node noise figure (F).
  • a total received signal strength Io(n) is measured.
  • the total received signal strength Io(n) is the total received power received at the femto node from all wireless devices for whom femto node is in their active set and from all wireless devices for whom femto node is not in their active set.
  • the in-cell (associated access terminal) interference level Ior which is the total received power received at the femto node from all wireless devices for whom femto node is in their active set, is computed.
  • the computed in-cell interference level can be expressed as:
  • Ior ⁇ ( n ) ⁇ i ⁇ InCell ⁇ Ec i ⁇ ( n )
  • a received pilot chip energy Ecp(n) to interference and noise Nt(n) ratio is measured from all wireless devices for whom the femto node is in their active set.
  • the out-of-cell (non-associated access terminal) interference level Ioc which is the total received power received at the femto node from all wireless devices for whom femto node is not in their active set, is computed.
  • the computed out-of-cell interference level can be expressed as:
  • Ioc ( n ) Io ( n ) ⁇ Ior ( n ) ⁇ No ( n )
  • the received out-of-cell interference level to the thermal noise figure No(n) ratio and maximum filtered received pilot chip energy Ecp(n) to interference plus noise Nt(n) ratio among in-cell access terminals are computed.
  • the access terminal signal-to-noise ratio measured as the received pilot chip energy Ecp(n) to interference and noise Nt(n) ratio for all in-cell access terminals are filtered, by way of example, according to infinite impulse response (IIR) filtering in the dB domain.
  • IIR infinite impulse response
  • the signal-to-noise ratio of the out-of-cell received interference level Ioc and the thermal noise figure No(n) are computed.
  • the signal-to-noise ratio is also further filtered, by way of example, according to finite impulse response (FIR) filtering in the dB domain.
  • FIR finite impulse response
  • the computed out-of-cell (non-associated access terminal) signal-to-noise ratio can be expressed as:
  • the excess amount for received pilot chip energy to interference and noise ratio can be expressed as:
  • EcpNt_excess max ⁇ ( Ecp ⁇ ( n ) Nt ⁇ ( n ) ) _ - EcpNt_target
  • the excess amount of the out-of-cell received interference level Ioc_excess can be expressed as:
  • Ioc_excess ( Ioc ⁇ ( n ) No ⁇ ( n ) ) _ - Ioc_target
  • an amount of additional path loss (PL_adjust) that needs to be applied is computed.
  • the candidate path loss adjustments are determined.
  • the candidate adjustments can be expressed as:
  • the candidate values may be based upon various characteristics or rules.
  • various points can be expressed as:
  • the appropriate path loss (PL_adjust) can be applied according to the upper and lower path loss PL adjustment limitations expressed as:
  • the uplink UL attenuation (or noise figure) is increased by PL_adjust(n). It is noted that in an actual implementation, hardware limitations may require quantization of PL_adjust(n) to the closest possible setting.
  • the present exemplary embodiment uses methods and apparatus to prevent jamming and address jamming and negative geometries using subframe time reuse.
  • femto node 510 B may communicate with associated access terminal 520 D during a period that femto node 510 A is silent.
  • associated access terminal 520 C may communicate with femto node 510 A during a period where non-associated access terminal 520 D is scheduled by femto node 510 A to be silent.
  • time division scheduling such as 1xEVDO.
  • neighbor femto nodes 510 can be organized to use time re-use of these control channels.
  • sub-frame time reuse is applicable to technologies where hybrid time reuse cannot be applied.
  • the base station transmits a continuous pilot and other CDM control channels (e.g., synch, paging and broadcast, etc.) which the access terminals use for a variety of purposes, including initial scanning and acquisition, idle mode tracking and channel estimation.
  • This continuous transmission of pilot and overhead channels from femto nodes may result in the above described downlink jamming, even when there is no active traffic at the jammer.
  • the first step is to address the outage situations when the desired femto node 510 pilot and overhead channels (e.g., synch and paging) cannot be received at the access terminal 520 .
  • pilot and overhead channels e.g., synch and paging
  • a cdma2000 frame is divided into sixteen power control groups (PCGs). To permit acquisition of the pilot signal, a fraction of the pilot and overhead channel transmission is gated off.
  • femto node 510 A transmitting to associated access terminals 520 A-C, transmits such gated frames (i.e., during gated off periods no FL traffic is transmitted).
  • the carrier-to-interference ratio, C/I for transmissions from femto node 510 B improves dramatically during the period that femto node 510 A is gated off, permitting acquisition of the pilot and synch channels from femto node 510 B at access terminal 520 D, in spite of the highly negative geometry at access terminal 520 D.
  • these gated on-off periods are scheduled to be non-overlapping.
  • femto node 510 A and femto node 510 B can use non-overlapping sub-frames (or power-control groups).
  • a fraction 1 ⁇ 2, 2 ⁇ 3 or 3 ⁇ 4 of the sub-frames for example, a time division reuse pattern of 2, 3 or 4 may be created. If the pilot and overhead channels have sufficient redundancy, for pilot acquisition as well as decoding of the overhead channels, this would have an impact of 3-6 dB, for example, on the link budget of the pilot and overhead channels.
  • this can be easily compensated by increasing the transmit power of the femto node 510 , since in the femto node 510 deployment, the arrangements are not limited by transmit power.
  • the same gating method may also be applied to the voice or data channel transmissions.
  • the femto node 510 gates a fraction of each frame transmission off. If, for example, the fraction (e.g., 1 ⁇ 2) that is turned off is lesser than the channel coding rate used for that transmission, for example, in cdma2000 forward link voice packet transmissions, a particular standard format (RC3) uses a rate 1 ⁇ 4 convolutional code, the access terminal 520 will be able to decode the packet, even though half of the packet transmission was gated off.
  • the following method is disclosed to prevent jamming and address jamming and negative geometries using subframe time reuse.
  • FIG. 12 describes an exemplary embodiment for interference management in a wireless communication system using subframe time reuse.
  • gating sequences or patterns
  • PCGs power control groups
  • the gating sequence may be chosen in such a way as to minimize the cross-correlation between pairs of gating sequences from potentially interfering femto nodes 510 .
  • each femto node 510 selects one of the gating sequences.
  • the femto node 510 may attempt to choose a gating sequence that is non-overlapping with neighbor femto nodes, general selection does not necessarily result in a non-overlapping arrangement.
  • the exemplary embodiment provides a mechanism such that a non-overlapping gating sequence can be identified and selected.
  • an access terminal 520 establishes an active connection with a femto node 510 .
  • the access terminal 520 provides a “fast” per-subframe downlink (forward link) power control feedback allowing the femto node 5101 to select a desired non-overlapping gating sequence.
  • femto node 510 B transmits a series of frames on, for example, a data/voice channel to the access terminal 520 D with all power control groups (PCGs) gated on.
  • PCGs power control groups
  • access terminal 520 D will observe interference on a subset of the subframes in response to gated transmissions by interfering neighbor femto node 510 A.
  • access terminal 520 D will also observe another subset of subframes where no interference from neighbor femto node 520 A is observed when neighbor femto node 510 A is gated off during that subset of subframes.
  • the access terminal 520 D will observe, for example, low Eb/No.
  • the downlink (forward link) power control feedback from access terminal 520 D will indicate that femto node 510 B should increase the transmit power for specific subframes.
  • access terminal 520 D will observe high Eb/No and the downlink (forward link) power control feedback from access terminal 520 D will indicate that femto node 510 B should decrease the transmit power for specific subframes.
  • the sub-frame downlink (forward link) power control feedback provided by access terminal 520 D to femto node 510 B indicates which sub-frames at transmitted by interfering neighbor femto node 510 A are gated on and which are gated off. Accordingly, such an indication allows femto node 510 B to select a gating sequence (pattern) that is non-overlapping (complementary) with the gating sequence (pattern) chosen and in use by interfering neighbor femto node 510 A.
  • the exemplary embodiment finds application for the gating sequence (pattern) chosen by interfering neighboring femto node 510 A.
  • gating sequences may further determine the types of gating sequences (patterns) best suited for this sub-frame gating technique.
  • other considerations may be applied to include choosing gating sequences (patterns) that intersperse shortened “off” periods between shortened “on” periods. Such a consideration may reduce impact on downlink (forward link) channel estimation and channel quality feedback estimation methods in use by the legacy access terminal.
  • gating sequences patterns that intersperse shortened “off” periods between shortened “on” periods.
  • Such a consideration may reduce impact on downlink (forward link) channel estimation and channel quality feedback estimation methods in use by the legacy access terminal.
  • gating sequence selection may apply different considerations for deployments where neighbor femto nodes 510 are not synchronized. Such considerations may exist, for example, when WCDMA femto nodes 510 are not synchronized.
  • non-synchronized femto nodes 510 instead of alternate on-off gated subframes, it may be beneficial to have all or many of the gated-off subframes be contiguous, as well as all or many of the gated-on subframes.
  • a beneficial method may be for each femto node 510 to gate off nine contiguous of the fifteen subframes and gate on six contiguous subframes.
  • the femto node 510 may gate off sixteen contiguous subframes and gate on fourteen contiguous subframes out of thirty subframes.
  • femto nodes 510 configured to gate-off pilot and overhead channel transmissions when there are no access terminals associated, and to turn on pilot and overhead channels periodically and/or at very low power only at times when associated access terminals 520 are expected to be scanning for the femto node 510 .
  • the present exemplary embodiment uses methods and apparatus to prevent jamming and address jamming and negative geometries using hybrid time reuse techniques.
  • femto node 510 B can communicate with associated access terminal 520 D during a period when femto node 510 A is not transmitting.
  • associated access terminal 520 C may communicate with femto node 510 A during a period where access terminal 520 D is scheduled by femto node 510 B to not transmit.
  • a downlink DL transmission is divided into three separate groups in time:
  • FIG. 13 illustrates an exemplary downlink DL timeline including three different time periods during each synchronous control channel (SCC) cycle period of 256 time slots.
  • SCC synchronous control channel
  • neighboring femto nodes 510 pick different femto channels so that they do not experience interference from other neighbor femto nodes 510 (i.e., each femto node selects a primary femto channel different than the neighbor femto node 510 ).
  • multiple femto channels (in addition to the primary femto channel) can be used by one femto node 510 . Details of one exemplary embodiment of a hybrid time reuse operation is described below.
  • FIG. 14 describes a method for interference management in a wireless communication system using hybrid time reuse, in accordance with an exemplary embodiment.
  • the femto node 510 performs time synchronization with the macro cell network (e.g., macro cell access node 560 ).
  • the femto node 510 measures secondary synchronization channel (SCC) offsets (MSCCO) used by the macro cell access node 560 and neighboring femto nodes 510 . Based on the measurement, the femto node 510 identifies a preferred HARQ interlace with the least interference, as represented by block 1406 .
  • a preferred slot offset (PSO) is defined from the identified preferred HARQ interlace.
  • a primary femto channel is selected.
  • exemplary selection process may follow the following algorithm:
  • femto nodes 510 may transmit traffic in the downlink (forward link). Transmissions by femto nodes 510 are timed to reduce interference with macro cell transmissions and other femto node transmissions.
  • a femto node transmission protocol for the various macro cell transmission periods, SCC transmission period, limited HARQ interlace transmission period, and unlimited HARQ interlace transmission period, are described below.
  • an SCC transmission period 1302 is defined at the beginning of each SCC cycle 1304 (e.g., 256 slots) to allow transmission of an SCC offset (e.g., first 32 slots of every SCC cycle).
  • an SCC offset e.g., first 32 slots of every SCC cycle.
  • two sub-periods 1306 , 1308 are defined based on HARQ interlace: preferred slot offset and non-preferred slot offset.
  • femto node 510 On HARQ interlace with the preferred slot offset (PSO), femto node 510 transmits SCC information. This allows reliable transmission of control channel information and enables associated access terminals 520 to hand-in and hand-out from femto node 510 .
  • femto nodes 510 do not transmit any downlink (forward link) traffic (DTX FL transmission) so that minimum interference is caused to neighbor macro cells and neighbor femto node SCC transmission.
  • DTX FL transmission downlink (forward link) traffic
  • a fractional of downlink DL power is used for Pilot and MAC channels so that these channels can operate successfully.
  • limited HARQ interlace transmission period gives a transmission opportunity for each femto node so that delay sensitive traffic (such as VoIP etc.) does not suffer too excessive delay.
  • DRC downlink
  • MUP multi user packet
  • downlink (forward link) traffic may also be transmitted on HARQ interlace of MSCCO.
  • neighboring femto nodes 510 may use this interlace as well (i.e., no protection against interference).
  • femto nodes do not transmit any downlink (forward link) traffic (time re-use) however a fraction of downlink (forward link) power can be allocated to pilot and MAC channels for successful operation of these channels.
  • the femto node 510 is allowed to transmit downlink (forward link) traffic on all of the four HARQ interlaces.
  • downlink (forward link) transmit power can be ramped up slowly to let the access terminal rate predictor to ramp up.
  • DRC length of 1 slot should be used. Due to conservative predictor behavior, if null DRC is requested by the mobile at the beginning of unlimited HARQ interlace transmission period, femto node 510 can transmit compatible packet types (multi use packet or 38.4 kbps single user packet).
  • femto node downlink (forward link) scheduler can keep track of previously requested DRC values and maintain DRC values from last transmission periods and HARQ early termination statistics to decide on what data rates can be decoded by access terminal 520 .
  • FIG. 15 depicts several sample components that may be employed to facilitate communication between nodes.
  • a wireless device 1510 e.g., an access point
  • a wireless device 1550 e.g., an access terminal
  • traffic data for a number of data streams is provided from a data source 1512 to atransmit (“TX”) data processor 1514 .
  • TX transmit
  • each data stream is transmitted over a respective transmit antenna.
  • the TX data processor 1514 formats, codes, and interleaves the traffic data for each data stream based on a particular coding scheme selected for that data stream to provide coded data.
  • the coded data for each data stream may be multiplexed with pilot data using OFDM techniques.
  • the pilot data is typically a known data pattern that is processed in a known manner and may be used at the receiver system to estimate the channel response.
  • the multiplexed pilot and coded data for each data stream is then modulated (i.e., symbol mapped) based on a particular modulation scheme (e.g., BPSK, QSPK, M-PSK, or M-QAM) selected for that data stream to provide modulation symbols.
  • the data rate, coding, and modulation for each data stream may be determined by instructions performed by a processor 1530 .
  • a data memory 1532 may store program code, data, and other information used by the processor 1530 or other components of the device 1510 .
  • the modulation symbols for all data streams are then provided to a TX MIMO processor 1520 , which may further process the modulation symbols (e.g., for OFDM).
  • the TX MIMO processor 1520 then provides NT modulation symbol streams to NT transceivers (“XCVR”) 1522 A through 1522 T.
  • XCVR NT transceivers
  • the TX MIMO processor 1520 applies beam-forming weights to the symbols of the data streams and to the antenna from which the symbol is being transmitted.
  • Each transceiver 1522 receives and processes a respective symbol stream to provide one or more analog signals, and further conditions (e.g., amplifies, filters, and upconverts) the analog signals to provide a modulated signal suitable for transmission over the MIMO channel.
  • NT modulated signals from transceivers 1522 A through 1522 T are then transmitted from NT antennas 1524 A through 1524 T, respectively.
  • the transmitted modulated signals are received by N R antennas 1552 A through 1552 R and the received signal from each antenna 1552 is provided to a respective transceiver (“XCVR”) 1554 A through 1554 R.
  • Each transceiver 1554 conditions (e.g., filters, amplifies, and downconverts) a respective received signal, digitizes the conditioned signal to provide samples, and further processes the samples to provide a corresponding “received” symbol stream.
  • a receive (“RX”) data processor 1560 then receives and processes the N R received symbol streams from N R transceivers 1554 based on a particular receiver processing technique to provide NT “detected” symbol streams.
  • the RX data processor 1560 then demodulates, deinterleaves, and decodes each detected symbol stream to recover the traffic data for the data stream.
  • the processing by the RX data processor 1560 is complementary to that performed by the TX MIMO processor 1520 and the TX data processor 1514 at the device 1510 .
  • a processor 1570 periodically determines which pre-coding matrix to use (discussed below). The processor 1570 formulates a reverse link message comprising a matrix index portion and a rank value portion.
  • a data memory 1572 may store program code, data, and other information used by the processor 1570 or other components of the device 1550 .
  • the reverse link message may comprise various types of information regarding the communication link and/or the received data stream.
  • the reverse link message is then processed by a TX data processor 1538 , which also receives traffic data for a number of data streams from a data source 1536 , modulated by a modulator 1580 , conditioned by the transceivers 1554 A through 1554 R, and transmitted back to the device 1510 .
  • the modulated signals from the device 1550 are received by the antennas 1524 , conditioned by the transceivers 1522 , demodulated by a demodulator (“DEMOD”) 1540 , and processed by a RX data processor 1542 to extract the reverse link message transmitted by the device 1550 .
  • the processor 1530 determines which pre-coding matrix to use for determining the beam-forming weights then processes the extracted message.
  • FIG. 15 also illustrates that the communication components may include one or more components that perform interference control operations as taught herein.
  • an interference (“INTER.”) control component 1590 may cooperate with the processor 1530 and/or other components of the device 1510 to send/receive signals to/from another device (e.g., device 1550 ) as taught herein.
  • an interference control component 1592 may cooperate with the processor 1570 and/or other components of the device 1550 to send/receive signals to/from another device (e.g., device 1510 ).
  • the functionality of two or more of the described components may be provided by a single component.
  • a single processing component may provide the functionality of the interference control component 1590 and the processor 1530 and a single processing component may provide the functionality of the interference control component 1592 and the processor 1570 .
  • teachings herein may be incorporated into various types of communication systems and/or system components.
  • teachings herein may be employed in a multiple-access system capable of supporting communication with multiple users by sharing the available system resources (e.g., by specifying one or more of bandwidth, transmit power, coding, interleaving, and so on).
  • the teachings herein may be applied to any one or combinations of the following technologies: Code Division Multiple Access (“CDMA”) systems, Multiple-Carrier CDMA (“MCCDMA”), Wideband CDMA (“W-CDMA”), High-Speed Packet Access (“HSPA,” “HSPA+”) systems, Time Division Multiple Access (“TDMA”) systems, Frequency Division Multiple Access (“FDMA”) systems, Single-Carrier FDMA (“SC-FDMA”) systems, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (“OFDMA”) systems, or other multiple access techniques.
  • CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
  • MCCDMA Multiple-Carrier CDMA
  • W-CDMA Wideband CDMA
  • TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
  • FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
  • SC-FDMA Single-Carrier FDMA
  • OFDMA Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access
  • a CDMA network may implement a radio technology such as Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (“UTRA)”, cdma2000, or some other technology.
  • UTRA includes W-CDMA and Low Chip Rate (“LCR”).
  • LCR Low Chip Rate
  • the cdma2000 technology covers IS-2000, IS-95 and IS-856 standards.
  • a TDMA network may implement a radio technology such as Global System for Mobile Communications (“GSM”).
  • GSM Global System for Mobile Communications
  • An OFDMA network may implement a radio technology such as Evolved UTRA (“E-UTRA”), IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.16, IEEE 802.20, Flash-OFDM®, etc.
  • E-UTRA Evolved UTRA
  • IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.16, IEEE 802.20 Flash-OFDM®
  • Flash-OFDM® Flash-OFDM®
  • LTE Long Term Evolution
  • UMB Ultra-Mobile Broadband
  • LTE is a release of UMTS that uses E-UTRA.
  • 3GPP terminology it is to be understood that the teachings herein may be applied to 3GPP (Re199, Re15, Re16, Re17) technology, as well as 3GPP2 (1xRTT, 1xEV-DO Re10, RevA, RevB) technology and other technologies.
  • a node e.g., a wireless node
  • a node implemented in accordance with the teachings herein may comprise an access point or an access terminal.
  • an access terminal may comprise, be implemented as, or known as user equipment, a subscriber station, a subscriber unit, a mobile station, a mobile, a mobile node, a remote station, a remote terminal, a user terminal, a user agent, a user device, or some other terminology.
  • an access terminal may comprise a cellular telephone, a cordless telephone, a session initiation protocol (“SIP”) phone, a wireless local loop (“WLL”) station, a personal digital assistant (“PDA”), a handheld device having wireless connection capability, or some other suitable processing device connected to a wireless modem.
  • SIP session initiation protocol
  • WLL wireless local loop
  • PDA personal digital assistant
  • a phone e.g., a cellular phone or smart phone
  • a computer e.g., a laptop
  • a portable communication device e.g., a portable computing device
  • an entertainment device e.g., a music device, a video device, or a satellite radio
  • a global positioning system device e.g., a global positioning system device, or any other suitable device that is configured to communicate via a wireless medium.
  • An access point may comprise, be implemented as, or known as a NodeB, an eNodeB, a radio network controller (“RNC”), a base station (“BS”), a radio base station (“RBS”), a base station controller (“BSC”), a base transceiver station (“BTS”), a transceiver function (“TF”), a radio transceiver, a radio router, a basic service set (“BSS”), an extended service set (“ESS”), or some other similar terminology.
  • RNC radio network controller
  • BS base station
  • RBS radio base station
  • RBS radio base station
  • RBS radio base station
  • RBS radio base station
  • BSS base station controller
  • BTS base transceiver station
  • TF transceiver function
  • radio transceiver a radio transceiver
  • radio router a basic service set (“BSS”), an extended service set (“ESS”), or some other similar terminology.
  • BSS basic service set
  • ESS extended service set
  • a node may comprise an access node for a communication system.
  • Such an access node may provide, for example, connectivity for or to a network (e.g., a wide area network such as the Internet or a cellular network) via a wired or wireless communication link to the network.
  • a network e.g., a wide area network such as the Internet or a cellular network
  • an access node may enable another node (e.g., an access terminal) to access a network or some other functionality.
  • the nodes may be portable or, in some cases, relatively non-portable.
  • a wireless node may be capable of transmitting and/or receiving information in a non-wireless manner (e.g., via a wired connection).
  • a receiver and a transmitter as discussed herein may include appropriate communication interface components (e.g., electrical or optical interface components) to communicate via a non-wireless medium.
  • a wireless node may communicate via one or more wireless communication links that are based on or otherwise support any suitable wireless communication technology.
  • a wireless node may associate with a network.
  • the network may comprise a local area network or a wide area network.
  • a wireless device may support or otherwise use one or more of a variety of wireless communication technologies, protocols, or standards such as those discussed herein (e.g., CDMA, TDMA, OFDM, OFDMA, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, and so on).
  • a wireless node may support or otherwise use one or more of a variety of corresponding modulation or multiplexing schemes.
  • a wireless node may thus include appropriate components (e.g., air interfaces) to establish and communicate via one or more wireless communication links using the above or other wireless communication technologies.
  • a wireless node may comprise a wireless transceiver with associated transmitter and receiver components that may include various components (e.g., signal generators and signal processors) that facilitate communication over a wireless medium.
  • apparatuses 1600 , 1700 , 1800 , 1900 , 2000 , and 2100 are represented as a series of interrelated functional blocks.
  • the functionality of these blocks may be implemented as a processing system including one or more processor components.
  • the functionality of these blocks may be implemented using, for example, at least a portion of one or more integrated circuits (e.g., an ASIC).
  • an integrated circuit may include a processor, software, other related components, or some combination thereof.
  • the functionality of these blocks also may be implemented in some other manner as taught herein.
  • the apparatuses 1600 , 1700 , 1800 , 1900 , 2000 , and 2100 may include one or more modules that may perform one or more of the functions described above with regard to various figures.
  • one or more components of the interference controller 320 or the interference controller 322 may provide functionality relating to, for example, a interference receiving/direction means 1602 , interference comparing/determining/updating means 1606 , overhead channel power means 1702 , transmit waveform means 1802 , channel quality means 1806 , interference determining means 1902 , path loss means 1906 , gating sequence means 2002 , reuse pattern means 2102 , and synchronization/offset/timing means 2106 .
  • the communication controller 326 or the communication controller 328 may provide functionality relating to, for example, transceiving (transmitting/receiving) means 1604 , 1704 , 1804 , 1904 , 2004 , and 2104 .
  • any reference to an element herein using a designation such as “first,” “second,” and so forth does not generally limit the quantity or order of those elements. Rather, these designations may be used herein as a convenient method of distinguishing between two or more elements or instances of an element. Thus, a reference to first and second elements does not mean that only two elements may be employed there or that the first element must precede the second element in some manner. Also, unless stated otherwise a set of elements may comprise one or more elements.
  • any of the various illustrative logical blocks, modules, processors, means, circuits, and algorithm steps described in connection with the aspects disclosed herein may be implemented as electronic hardware (e.g., a digital implementation, an analog implementation, or a combination of the two, which may be designed using source coding or some other technique), various forms of program or design code incorporating instructions (which may be referred to herein, for convenience, as “software” or a “software module”), or combinations of both.
  • software or a “software module”
  • various illustrative components, blocks, modules, circuits, and steps have been described above generally in terms of their functionality. Whether such functionality is implemented as hardware or software depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the overall system. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the present disclosure.
  • the various illustrative logical blocks, modules, and circuits described in connection with the aspects disclosed herein may be implemented within or performed by an integrated circuit (“IC”), an access terminal, or an access point.
  • the IC may comprise a general purpose processor, a digital signal processor (DSP), an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic, discrete hardware components, electrical components, optical components, mechanical components, or any combination thereof designed to perform the functions described herein, and may execute codes or instructions that reside within the IC, outside of the IC, or both.
  • a general purpose processor may be a microprocessor, but in the alternative, the processor may be any conventional processor, controller, microcontroller, or state machine.
  • a processor may also be implemented as a combination of computing devices, e.g., a combination of a DSP and a microprocessor, a plurality of microprocessors, one or more microprocessors in conjunction with a DSP core, or any other such configuration.
  • Computer-readable media includes both computer storage media and communication media including any medium that facilitates transfer of a computer program from one place to another.
  • a storage media may be any available media that can be accessed by a computer.
  • such computer-readable media can comprise RAM, ROM, EEPROM, CD-ROM or other optical disk storage, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium that can be used to carry or store desired program code in the form of instructions or data structures and that can be accessed by a computer.
  • any connection is properly termed a computer-readable medium.
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