APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING AND PROCESSING A POSITIONING REFERENCE SIGNAL BASED ON IDENTIFIER ASSOCIATED WITH A BASE STATION
First Claim
1. A wireless communication device operable in a wireless communication system that includes at least one base station, the wireless communication device comprising:
- a receiver operable to receive at least a section of a subframe from a base station, the subframe including a plurality of transmission resources multiplexed onto subcarriers of a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbols, each transmission resource of the plurality of transmission resources occupying a predetermined amount of time on a respective one of the subcarriers, the plurality of OFDM symbols being arranged into at least a first set of OFDM symbols that includes a positioning reference signal and a second set of OFDM symbols that does not include the positioning reference signal; and
a processor operably coupled to the receiver, the processor operable to;
determine, based on an identifier associated with the base station, a set of transmission resources over which the positioning reference signal was transmitted, the set of transmission resources constituting at least a portion of the first set of OFDM symbols; and
process the set of transmission resources to estimate timing information associated with the positioning reference signal.
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Abstract
A base station communicates a positioning reference signal (PRS) to wireless communication devices over a downlink in a wireless communication system by encoding a PRS into a first set of transmission resources, encoding other information into a second set of transmission resources, multiplexing the two sets of resources into a subframe such that the first set of resources is multiplexed into at least a portion of a first set of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbols based on an identifier associated with the base station and the second set of resources is multiplexed into a second set of OFDM symbols, and transmitting the subframe. Upon receiving the subframe, a wireless device determines which set of transmission resources contains the PRS based on the identifier associated with the base station that transmitted the subframe and processes the set of resources containing the PRS to estimate timing (e.g., time of arrival) information.
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39 Claims
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1. A wireless communication device operable in a wireless communication system that includes at least one base station, the wireless communication device comprising:
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a receiver operable to receive at least a section of a subframe from a base station, the subframe including a plurality of transmission resources multiplexed onto subcarriers of a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbols, each transmission resource of the plurality of transmission resources occupying a predetermined amount of time on a respective one of the subcarriers, the plurality of OFDM symbols being arranged into at least a first set of OFDM symbols that includes a positioning reference signal and a second set of OFDM symbols that does not include the positioning reference signal; and a processor operably coupled to the receiver, the processor operable to; determine, based on an identifier associated with the base station, a set of transmission resources over which the positioning reference signal was transmitted, the set of transmission resources constituting at least a portion of the first set of OFDM symbols; and process the set of transmission resources to estimate timing information associated with the positioning reference signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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22. A method for a wireless communication device to at least determine position-related timing information, the wireless communication device operating in a wireless communication system that includes a plurality of base stations, the method comprising:
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receiving at least a section of a subframe transmitted by a first base station of the plurality of base stations, the subframe including a plurality of transmission resources multiplexed onto subcarriers of a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbols, each transmission resource of the plurality of transmission resources occupying a predetermined amount of time on a respective one of the subcarriers, the plurality of OFDM symbols being arranged into a first set of OFDM symbols that includes a positioning reference signal and a second set of OFDM symbols that does not include a positioning reference signal; determining, based on an identifier associated with the first base station, a set of transmission resources over which the positioning reference signal was transmitted, the set of transmission resources constituting a portion of the first set of OFDM symbols; and processing the set of transmission resources to estimate timing information associated with the positioning reference signal. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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29. A method for a wireless communication device to determine time of arrival information from which a location of the wireless communication device may be estimated, the wireless communication device operating in a wireless communication system that includes a plurality of base stations and a location server, each of the plurality of base stations providing wireless communication service within a respective service coverage area, the location server being operable to determine locations of wireless communication devices within a coverage area of the wireless communication system, the wireless communication device receiving wireless communication service from a first base station of the plurality of base stations, the method comprising:
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receiving a first subframe transmitted by a second base station of the plurality of base stations, the first subframe including a first plurality of resource elements that are divided in time across a first plurality of subcarriers to form a first plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbols, each resource element of the first plurality of resource elements occupying a predetermined amount of time on a respective one of the first plurality of subcarriers, the first plurality of OFDM symbols being arranged into a first set of OFDM symbols that includes a first positioning reference signal and a second set of OFDM symbols that does not include the first positioning reference signal; receiving a second subframe transmitted by a third base station of the plurality of base stations, the second subframe including a second plurality of resource elements that are divided in time across a second plurality of subcarriers to form a second plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbols, each resource element of the second plurality of resource elements occupying a predetermined amount of time on a respective one of the second plurality of subcarriers, the second plurality of OFDM symbols being arranged into a third set of OFDM symbols that includes a second positioning reference signal and a fourth set of OFDM symbols that does not include the second positioning reference signal; determining, based on an identifier associated with the second base station, a first set of resource elements over which the first positioning reference signal was transmitted in the first subframe, the first set of resource elements constituting a portion of the first set of OFDM symbols; determining, based on an identifier associated with the third base station, a second set of resource elements over which the second positioning reference signal was transmitted in the second subframe, the second set of resource elements constituting a portion of the third set of OFDM symbols, wherein the portion of the third set of OFDM symbols containing the second positioning reference signal is different than and orthogonal to the portion of the first set of OFDM symbols containing the first positioning reference signal; processing the first set of resource elements to estimate a first time of arrival of the first positioning reference signal based on a local oscillator frequency of the wireless communication device; processing the second set of resource elements to estimate a second time of arrival of the second positioning reference signal based on the local oscillator frequency; and communicating the first time of arrival and the second time of arrival to the location server via the first base station.
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30. A method for a wireless communication device to at least determine position-related timing information, the wireless communication device operating in a wireless communication system that includes a plurality of base stations, the method comprising:
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receiving at least a section of a subframe transmitted by a first base station of the plurality of base stations, the subframe including a plurality of transmission resources multiplexed onto subcarriers of a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed symbols, each transmission resource of the plurality of transmission resources occupying a predetermined amount of time on a respective one of the subcarriers, the plurality of transmission resources being arranged into at least a first set of transmission resources that includes a positioning reference signal and a second set of transmission resources that includes channel-coded data, the second set of transmission resources being different than the first set of transmission resources; determining, based on an identifier associated with the first base station, the first set of transmission resources over which the positioning reference signal was transmitted; determining the second set of transmission resources over which the channel-coded data was transmitted; processing the first set of transmission resources to estimate timing information associated with the positioning reference signal; and processing the second set of transmission resources to recover the channel-coded data. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A wireless communication device operable in a wireless communication system that includes at least one base station, the wireless communication device comprising:
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a receiver operable to receive at least a section of a subframe from a base station, the subframe including a plurality of transmission resources multiplexed onto subcarriers of a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbols, each transmission resource of the plurality of transmission resources occupying a predetermined amount of time on a respective one of the subcarriers, the plurality of transmission resources being arranged into at least a first set of transmission resources that includes a positioning reference signal and a second set of transmission resources that includes channel-coded data, the second set of transmission resources being different than the first set of transmission resources; and a processor operably coupled to the receiver, the processor operable to; determine, based on an identifier associated with the base station, the first set of transmission resources over which the positioning reference signal was transmitted; determining the second set of transmission resources over which the channel-coded data was transmitted; process the set of transmission resources to estimate timing information associated with the positioning reference signal; and process the second set of transmission resources to recover the channel-coded data. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39)
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