Wireless local area network using TV white space spectrum and long term evolution system architecture
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1. A wireless local area network, comprising:
- a local area network gateway that transmits a modified Long Term Evolution (LTE) downlink frame in which a predetermined subset of pilot symbol positions used in LTE downlink frames to transmit pilot symbols for channel estimation are used to carry control data symbols to increase a data capacity of each of the LTE downlink frames; and
a data sink that receives the modified LTE downlink frame and extracts the control data symbols from the predetermined subset of pilot symbol positions.
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Abstract
A wireless local area network (WLAN) gateway may use a modified LTE radio frame and TV white space spectrum for data communications in a wireless local area network. In the modified LTE downlink frame a predefined subset of the pilot (reference) symbol subcarriers are used to carry information to data sinks in the WLAN.
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1. A wireless local area network, comprising:
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a local area network gateway that transmits a modified Long Term Evolution (LTE) downlink frame in which a predetermined subset of pilot symbol positions used in LTE downlink frames to transmit pilot symbols for channel estimation are used to carry control data symbols to increase a data capacity of each of the LTE downlink frames; and a data sink that receives the modified LTE downlink frame and extracts the control data symbols from the predetermined subset of pilot symbol positions. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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- 8. A local area network gateway comprising a transceiver that transmits a modified Long Term Evolution (LTE) downlink frame in which a predetermined subset of the pilot symbols used for channel estimation in the LTE downlink frames are replaced with control data symbols that carry control information to a data sink in the local area network.
- 12. A data sink in a local area network, comprising a Long Term Evolution (LTE) frame processor that processes modified LTE downlink frames transmitted by a local area network gateway and extracts control data symbols from a predetermined subset of pilot symbol positions used to carry the control data in the modified LTE downlink frame.
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16. A method of data communications in a wireless local area network, comprising:
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transmitting within the wireless local area network modified Long Term Evolution (LTE) downlink frames in which a predetermined subset of the pilot symbol positions otherwise used in LTE downlink frames to transmit pilot symbols for channel estimation are used to carry control data symbols to increase a data capacity of each of the LTE downlink frames; and on receipt at a data sink in the wireless local area network of one of the modified LTE downlink frames, demodulating the modified LTE downlink frame and extracting the control data symbols from the predetermined subset of the pilot symbol positions. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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