MULTIPLEXING SCHEMES FOR OFDMA
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Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for allocating resources including VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) and Non-VoIP resources. In some embodiments, multiplexing schemes are provided for use with OFDMA (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access) systems, for example for use in transmitting VoIP traffic, in some embodiments, various HARQ (Hybrid Automatic request) techniques are provided for use with OFDMA systems. In various embodiments, there are provided methods and systems for dealing with issuea such as Handling non-full rate vocoder frames, VoIP packet jitter handling, VoIP capacity increasing schemes, persistent and non-persistent assignment of resources in OFDMA systems.
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170 Claims
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1-40. -40. (canceled)
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41. A method comprising:
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for nominal operating conditions, transmitting an ACK-NAK-echo bitmap or any type of ACK/NAK echo echoing the NAK(s) or ACK(s) sent by one or more wireless stations; in some instances, transmitting the ACK-NAK-echo bitmap with an ACK to echo a NAK transmitted by the wireless station, or with an NAK to echo an ACK transmitted by the wireless station for the purpose of signalling something to the wireless station.
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42. A method of performing resource assignment comprising:
sending a bitmap (or other signalling) containing a respective location for each of a plurality of wireless stations, with each wireless station'"'"'s relative position in the bitmap (or other signalling) being associated with some OFDM resource allocation; wherein a value at a position in the bitmap (or other signalling), indicates whether or not a resource has been assigned to the receiver associated with that bitmap (or other signalling) position. - View Dependent Claims (43, 44, 45, 46, 168)
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84. A method comprising:
transmitting frames using OFDM, each frame occupying a plurality of OFDM symbols; signalling resource allocation to multiple groups of wireless stations using multiple bitmaps (or other signalling); re-assigning unused resources available for at least one of the bitmap (or other signalling)s to another of the bitmaps (or other signalling). - View Dependent Claims (85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93)
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98. A method comprising:
transmitting frames using OFDM, each frame occupying a plurality of OFDM symbols; sending a first bitmap (or other signalling) to indicate which wireless stations are being allocated an OFDM resource during a given scheduling period;
sending a second bitmap (or other signalling) to indicate the size of resources and/or MCS'"'"'s of wireless stations assigned by the first bitmap (or other signalling).- View Dependent Claims (99, 100, 101, 102, 103)
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104. A method comprising:
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transmitting frames using OFDM, each frame occupying a plurality of OFDM symbols; transmitting a respective bitmap (or other signalling) for each of a plurality of HARQ interlaces. - View Dependent Claims (105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117)
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169. A method of performing resource assignment wherein a persistent allocation is used for a HARQ first transmission for a wireless station.
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170. A method of performing resource assignment wherein a persistent allocation is used for one or more HARQ transmissions for a wireless station.
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