Method and arrangement in a telecommunication system
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1. A method of improved channel sounding transmissions between a base station in communication with a user equipment in a telecommunication system, said method comprising:
- receiving sounding signals at a base station, as sent by one or more user equipments (UEs) that are configured to send sounding signals when they have uplink data to transmit and not send sounding signals when they do not have uplink data to transmit; and
further at the base station, scheduling uplink resources based at least in part on interpreting a re-starting of sounding signal transmission by a given user equipment as an implicit indication that the given user equipment has uplink data to transmit, and interpreting the stopping of sounding signal transmission by a given user equipment as an implicit indication that the given user equipment does not have uplink data to transmit.
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Abstract
In a method of improved channel-sounding transmissions between a base station in communication with a user equipment in a telecommunication system, the user equipment receiving (S0) an assigned channel-sounding transmission pattern from the base station, and transmitting (S1) a channel-sounding signal to the base station based on the assigned channel-sounding transmission pattern and on available uplink data at the user equipment.
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15 Claims
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1. A method of improved channel sounding transmissions between a base station in communication with a user equipment in a telecommunication system, said method comprising:
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receiving sounding signals at a base station, as sent by one or more user equipments (UEs) that are configured to send sounding signals when they have uplink data to transmit and not send sounding signals when they do not have uplink data to transmit; and further at the base station, scheduling uplink resources based at least in part on interpreting a re-starting of sounding signal transmission by a given user equipment as an implicit indication that the given user equipment has uplink data to transmit, and interpreting the stopping of sounding signal transmission by a given user equipment as an implicit indication that the given user equipment does not have uplink data to transmit.
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2. A method of improved channel sounding transmissions between a base station in communication with a user equipment in a telecommunication system, the method being implemented by the user equipment and comprising:
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receiving an assigned channel sounding transmission pattern from said base station; and transmitting a channel sounding signal to said base station based on said assigned channel sounding transmission pattern and on available uplink data in said user equipment. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method of improved channel sounding transmissions between a base station in communication with a user equipment in a telecommunication system, said method being implemented by the base station and comprising:
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assigning a channel sounding transmission pattern to said user equipment; and performing resource scheduling for said system based at least on a response to said assignment; wherein said performing resource scheduling comprises interpreting reception of a response comprising a transmitted channel sounding signal from said user equipment as an implicit scheduling request. - View Dependent Claims (9)
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10. A user equipment in a telecommunication system, said user equipment comprising:
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a receiver unit for receiving assigned channel sounding transmission patterns from a base station; and a transmitter unit for transmitting channel sounding signals to said base station based on said assigned channel sounding transmission pattern and on available uplink data in said user equipment. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12)
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13. A base station in a telecommunication network, said base station comprising:
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an assignment unit for assigning channel sounding patterns to user equipment in said network; a receiving unit for receiving channel sounding signals based on said channel sounding patterns and available uplink data in said user equipment; and a scheduler associated with the receiving unit, the scheduler being configured to interpret the reception of a channel sounding signal as an implicit scheduling request from said user equipment. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15)
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