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• LTE/LTE-Advanced is a set of enhancements to the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) mobile standard promulgated by Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). It is designed to better support mobile broadband Internet access by improving spectral efficiency, lower costs, improve services, make use of new spectrum, and better integrate with other open standards using OFDMA on the downlink (DL), SC-FDMA on the uplink (UL), and multiple- input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna technology.
• UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
• 3GPP Third Generation Partnership Project
• Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications by a User Equipment (UE).
• the method generally includes combining pairs of antenna ports to generate at least first and second combined antenna ports, receiving reference signals transmitted in a narrow band region of a larger system bandwidth, for each combined antenna port, adding the reference signals received on resource elements (REs) of each of the combined pair of antenna ports, and determining channel estimates for each combined antenna port based on the added reference signals for the combined antenna port.
• REs resource elements
• FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of an access network.
• FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of an UL frame structure in LTE.
• FIG. 9 illustrates example operations performed by a base station for implementing a transmission scheme for NB IoT, in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
• the in-band version of NB-IoT uses signals embedded in the wide-band LTE signal.
• an eNB transmits one of 1-port CRS, 2-port CRS, and 4-port CRS.
• an NB-IoT device e.g., UE
• the eNB may typically transmit a full power signal only if all existing ports participate in the signal/data transmission. But, at the UE end, this would require estimating the channel for four eNB antennas for a UE Rx antenna.
• Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a new transmission scheme for the NB-IoT.
• the functions described may be implemented in hardware, software, or combinations thereof. If implemented in software, the functions may be stored on or encoded as one or more instructions or code on a computer-readable medium.
• Computer-readable media includes computer storage media. Storage media may be any available media that can be accessed by a computer.
• such computer- readable media can comprise RAM, ROM, EEPROM, PCM (phase change memory), flash memory, 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.
• FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an LTE network architecture 100 in which aspects of the present disclosure may be practiced.
• the Operator's IP Services 122 may include, for example, the Internet, the Intranet, an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), and a PS (packet-switched) Streaming Service (PSS).
• IMS IP Multimedia Subsystem
• PS packet-switched
• Streaming Service PSS
• FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of an access network 200 in an LTE network architecture in which aspects of the present disclosure may be practiced.
• UEs 206 and e Bs 204 may be configured to implement techniques for implementing a new transmission scheme for B-IoT described in aspects of the present disclosure.
• an e B may send a primary synchronization signal (PSS) and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) for each cell in the eNB.
• the primary and secondary synchronization signals may be sent in symbol periods 6 and 5, respectively, in each of subframes 0 and 5 of each radio frame with the normal cyclic prefix (CP).
• the synchronization signals may be used by UEs for cell detection and acquisition.
• the eNB may send a Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) in symbol periods 0 to 3 in slot 1 of subframe 0.
• PBCH Physical Broadcast Channel
• FIG. 5 is a diagram 500 illustrating an example of a radio protocol architecture for the user and control planes in LTE.
• the radio protocol architecture for the UE and the eNB is shown with three layers: Layer 1, Layer 2, and Layer 3.
• Layer 1 (LI layer) is the lowest layer and implements various physical layer signal processing functions.
• the LI layer will be referred to herein as the physical layer 506.
• Layer 2 (L2 layer) 508 is above the physical layer 506 and is responsible for the link between the UE and e B over the physical layer 506.
• the PDCP sublayer 514 provides multiplexing between different radio bearers and logical channels.
• the PDCP sublayer 514 also provides header compression for upper layer data packets to reduce radio transmission overhead, security by ciphering the data packets, and handover support for UEs between eNBs.
• the RLC sublayer 512 provides segmentation and reassembly of upper layer data packets, retransmission of lost data packets, and reordering of data packets to compensate for out-of-order reception due to hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ).
• HARQ hybrid automatic repeat request
• the MAC sublayer 510 provides multiplexing between logical and transport channels.
• the MAC sublayer 510 is also responsible for allocating the various radio resources (e.g., resource blocks) in one cell among the UEs.
• the MAC sublayer 510 is also responsible for HARQ operations.
• upper layer packets from the core network are provided to a controller/processor 675.
• the controller/processor 675 implements the functionality of the L2 layer.
• the controller/processor 675 provides header compression, ciphering, packet segmentation and reordering, multiplexing between logical and transport channels, and radio resource allocations to the UE 650 based on various priority metrics.
• the controller/processor 675 is also responsible for HARQ operations, retransmission of lost packets, and signaling to the UE 650.
• the controller/processor 659 implements the L2 layer.
• the controller/processor can be associated with a memory 660 that stores program codes and data.
• the memory 660 may be referred to as a computer-readable medium.
• the controller/processor 659 provides demultiplexing between transport and logical channels, packet reassembly, deciphering, header decompression, control signal processing to recover upper layer packets from the core network.
• the upper layer packets are then provided to a data sink 662, which represents all the protocol layers above the L2 layer.
• Various control signals may also be provided to the data sink 662 for L3 processing.
• the controller/processor 659 is also responsible for error detection using an acknowledgement (ACK) and/or negative acknowledgement (NACK) protocol to support HARQ operations.
• ACK acknowledgement
• NACK negative acknowledgement
• the UL transmission is processed at the eNB 610 in a manner similar to that described in connection with the receiver function at the UE 650.
• Each receiver 618RX receives a signal through its respective antenna 620.
• Each receiver 618RX recovers information modulated onto an RF carrier and provides the information to a RX processor 670.
• the RX processor 670 may implement the LI layer.
• the Internet of Things is a network of physical objects or "things" embedded with, e.g., electronics, software, sensors, and network connectivity, which enable these objects to collect and exchange data.
• the Internet of Things allows objects to be sensed and controlled remotely across existing network infrastructure, creating opportunities for more direct integration between the physical world and computer-based systems, and resulting in improved efficiency, accuracy and economic benefit.
• IoT is augmented with sensors and actuators, the technology becomes an instance of the more general class of cyber-physical systems, which also encompasses technologies such as smart grids, smart homes, intelligent transportation and smart cities.
• Each "thing” is generally uniquely identifiable through its embedded computing system but is able to interoperate within the existing Internet infrastructure.
• the UE combines pairs of antenna ports after performing some initial processing. For example, the UE descrambles CRS port 0 and CRS port 2 with a first and second scrambling sequence, and combines the resulting descrambled signal. Similarly, the UE descrambles CRS port 1 and CRS port 3 with a third and fourth scrambling sequence, and combines the resulting descrambled signal. In another example, the UE might perform time and/or frequency interpolation on the CRS RE corresponding to ports 0-3 (possibly after performing the descrambling operation indicated above) before combining. In yet another example, the UE might perform descrambling of the CRS RE and Doppler compensation/filtering before combining.
• the UE then processes two channel estimates based on the combined ports, for example, one estimate for combined ports 0+2 and another estimate for combined ports 1+3.
• the UE processes all data REs as simple SFBC pairs based on the two channel estimates.
• the eNB transmits the same data content on matching REs of the combined ports, for example, REs of both ports 0 and 2 or ports 1 and 3.
• RS positions e.g., REs
• RS positions corresponding to AP2 are left empty and RS for API is power boosted.
• RS positions corresponding to AP2 are filled with RS corresponding to API .
• FIG 12 illustrates operations 1200 for using different sequences in different RBs in a cell, in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
• Operations 1200 begin, at 1202, by configuring two or more RBs for transmission in a cell.
• a different scrambling sequence is configured for each of the two or more RBs for the transmission in the cell.
• data to be transmitted in each of the RBs is scrambled using a scrambling sequence configured for the RB.

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