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Apparatus and method for communicating and processing a reference signal based on an identifier associated with a base station

  • US 8,396,047 B2
  • Filed: 03/03/2011
  • Issued: 03/12/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for a wireless communication device to process a subframe of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbols transmitted by any one of a plurality of base stations in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

  • receiving at least a section of the subframe, the subframe including a plurality of transmission resources multiplexed onto subcarriers of a plurality of OFDM symbols such that a first set of OFDM symbols includes a reference signal and at least a second set of OFDM symbols includes information other than the reference signal;

    determining which OFDM symbols of the subframe constitute the first set of OFDM symbols based on an identifier associated with a base station that transmitted the subframe; and

    processing the reference signal from OFDM symbols that are determined to be the first set of OFDM symbols.

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