METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECREMENTING ASSIGNMENTS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

• US 20090147739A1
• Filed: 10/27/2006
• Published: 06/11/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Barriac, Gwendolyn D.
• Granted Patent: US 8,971,222 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/216 Code division or spread-spectrum multiple access [CDMA, SSMA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2628 using code-division multiple access [CDMA] or spread spectrum multiple access [SSMA] H04B7/2618 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 13/00 Code division multiplex systems for frequency hopping H04B1/713
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2601 Multicarrier modulation systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0057 Physical resource allocation for CQI
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/02 Arrangements for optimising operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/146 Uplink power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/16 Deriving transmission power values from another channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/325 Power control of control or pilot channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/48 during retransmission after error or non-acknowledgment
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/58 Format of the TPC bits
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0473 the resource being transmission power
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/542 using measured or perceived quality
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/00 Reducing energy consumption in communication networks

Abstract

A method and apparatus of decrementing access terminal assignments in a wireless communication system is provided, comprising determining if a MACID other than the MACID of an access terminal with an assignment for a particular interlace is received and decrementing the access terminal assignments according to the MACID, if the MACID other than the MACID of the access terminal with the assignment for the particular interlace is determined.

Claims

1. A method of decrementing access terminal assignments (ATA) in a wireless communication system, characterized in that:

determining if a MACID other than the MACID of an access terminal with an assignment for a particular interlace is received; and

decrementing the access terminal assignments according to the MACID, if the MACID other than the MACID of the access terminal with the assignment for the particular interlace is determined.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that decrementing the assignments comprises expiring all hop-ports in the ATA for the interlace that intersect with the hop-ports specified by a ChID in the FLAB/NS-FLAB_UC that contains the MACID other than the MACID of the access terminal with the assignment for a particular interlace.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that decrementing the assignments comprises removing the hop-ports for all ATAs that intersect with the ChID and corresponding interlace, upon receiving a FLAB or NS-FLAB_UC that contains the MACID other than the MACID of the access terminal with the assignment for a particular interlace.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that decrementing comprises removing overlapping hop-ports for all ATAs where the ChID and corresponding interlace overlaps with the ATA for only part of the ATAs interlace, upon receiving a FLAB or NS-FLAB_UC that contains the MACID other than the MACID of the access terminal with the assignment for a particular interlace.

5. A computer-readable medium including instructions stored thereon, characterized in that:

a first set of instructions for determining if a MACID other than the MACID of an access terminal with an assignment for a particular interlace is received; and

a second set of instructions for decrementing the access terminal assignments according to the MACID, if the MACID other than the MACID of the access terminal with the assignment for the particular interlace is determined.

6. The computer-readable medium as claimed in claim 5, characterized in that a third set of instructions for expiring all hop-ports in the ATA for the interlace that intersect with the hop-ports specified by a ChID in the FLAB/NS-FLAB_UC that contains the MACID other than the MACID of the access terminal with the assignment for a particular interlace.

7. The computer-readable medium as claimed in claim 5, characterized in that a fourth set of instructions for removing the hop-ports for all ATAs that intersect with the ChID and corresponding interlace, upon receiving a FLAB or NS-FLAB_UC that contains the MACID other than the MACID of the access terminal with the assignment for a particular interlace.

8. The computer-readable medium as claimed in claim 5, characterized in that a fifth set of instructions for removing overlapping hop-ports for all ATAs where the ChID and corresponding interlace overlaps with the ATA for only part of the ATAs interlace, upon receiving a FLAB or NS-FLAB_UC that contains the MACID other than the MACID of the access terminal with the assignment for a particular interlace.

9. An apparatus operable in a wireless communication system, characterized in that:

means for determining if a MACID other than the MACID of an access terminal with an assignment for a particular interlace is received; and

means for decrementing the access terminal assignments according to the MACID, if the MACID other than the MACID of the access terminal with the assignment for the particular interlace is determined.

10. The apparatus as claimed in claim 9, characterized in that having means for expiring all hop-ports in the ATA for the interlace that intersect with the hop-ports specified by a ChID in the FLAB/NS-FLAB_UC that contains the MACID other than the MACID of the access terminal with the assignment for a particular interlace.

11. The apparatus as claimed in claim 9, characterized in that having means for removing the hop-ports for all ATAs that intersect with the ChID and corresponding interlace, upon receiving a FLAB or NS-FLAB_UC that contains the MACID other than the MACID of the access terminal with the assignment for a particular interlace.

12. The apparatus as claimed in claim 9, characterized in that having means for removing overlapping hop-ports for all ATAs where the ChID and corresponding interlace overlaps with the ATA for only part of the ATAs interlace, upon receiving a FLAB or NS-FLAB_UC that contains the MACID other than the MACID of the access terminal with the assignment for a particular interlace.