Method and apparatus for signal combining in a high data rate communication system
First Claim
1. A base station, comprising:
- a thirty-second Walsh spreading element that covers forward link traffic data in accordance with a Walsh code WT;
a first Walsh spreading element that covers a FAC bit in accordance with a Walsh code W1;
a seventeenth Walsh spreading element that covers a reverse link busy bit in accordance with a Walsh code W17;
a set of twenty-nine Walsh spreading elements covers twenty-nine power control commands using Walsh codes W2-W16 and W18-W31, respectively;
a summer that sums the covered FAC bit, reverse link busy bit and twenty-nine power control commands and provides the sum to a multiplexer;
a multiplexer multiplexes the sum with the forward link traffic data.
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Abstract
Reverse link busy bits are independently generated by each base station and indicate whether a base station has reached a reverse link capacity limit. A remote station combines multipath components of the reverse link busy bits in its Active Set and in response transmits a reverse link signal only when all of the reverse link busy bits indicate that the base stations in the Active Set have reverse link capacity. In one description, the remote station weights the reverse link busy signals in accordance with the signal strength of the transmitting base station and determines whether to transmit based on the weighted sum of the busy signals. In another description, the remote station weights the reverse link busy signals in accordance with the signal strength of the transmitting base station and determines a maximum reverse link data rate based on the weighted sum of the busy signals.
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7 Claims
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1. A base station, comprising:
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a thirty-second Walsh spreading element that covers forward link traffic data in accordance with a Walsh code WT;
a first Walsh spreading element that covers a FAC bit in accordance with a Walsh code W1;
a seventeenth Walsh spreading element that covers a reverse link busy bit in accordance with a Walsh code W17;
a set of twenty-nine Walsh spreading elements covers twenty-nine power control commands using Walsh codes W2-W16 and W18-W31, respectively;
a summer that sums the covered FAC bit, reverse link busy bit and twenty-nine power control commands and provides the sum to a multiplexer;
a multiplexer multiplexes the sum with the forward link traffic data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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