Apparatus and associated method for providing communication bandwidth in communication system

• US 9,871,650 B2
• Filed: 05/27/2016
• Issued: 01/16/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Sexton, Thomas, Dhakal, Sagar, Lusina, Paul James
• Primary Examiner(s): HOANG, THAI D
• Application Number:
  US15/167,594
• Publication Number:
  US 20160344539A1
• Time in Patent Office: 599 Days
• Field of Search: 370252-253, 370329-330, 370312
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/309 Measuring or estimating channel quality parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0262 Arrangements for detecting the data rate of an incoming signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 7/04 Speed or phase control by synchronisation signals H04L7/0075 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/386 centralized, e.g. when the radio network controller or equivalent takes part in the power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/50 at the moment of starting communication in a multiple access environment
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/30 Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for improving the carbon footprint of the management of residential or tertiary loads, i.e. smart grids as climate change mitigation technology in the buildings sector, including also the last stages of power distribution and the control, monitoring or operating management systems at local level

Abstract

An apparatus and an associated method selects rates at which received signals are sampled in a multi-user communication system. The signals are sampled at initial sampling rates during a first period. An estimate is made of the number of received signals, and selection is made of an updated sampling rate, based in part upon the estimate.

Claims

1. A method for operating upon a received signal, said method comprising:

sampling the received signal at an initial sampling rate;

estimating a number of wireless-device transmissions from the received signal; and

commanding at least one of;

changing the initial sampling rate to an updated sampling rate, and

a user equipment transmission adjustment to avoid an error-floor condition due to operating outside of a rate-region of a multiple access system.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the transmission adjustment is a power level.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the transmission adjustment is an incremental redundancy command.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the initial sampling rate is at a sub- Nyquist sampling rate.

5. The method of claim 1, including collecting samples of first portions of the received signal, sampled at the initial sampling rate.

6. The method of claim 1 including selecting the updated sampling rate to sample additional portions of the received signal.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the received signal comprises a pilot signal followed by data words.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein said collecting samples of the first portions comprises collecting samples of the first words of the data words.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising sending a message to a wireless device containing an indication of power levels at which to transmit additional portions of data.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising providing indication of the updated sampling rate to samplers that sample the wireless device sourced data that is collected during said sampling.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising recovering informational content of the received signal.

13. The method of claim 1, including receiving a further message containing an indication of an adjusted power level at which to transmit the additional portions of data.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein said data is transmitted in a MAC transmission format.

12. A method for facilitating communication by a wireless device, said method comprising;

receiving at the wireless device a network-oriainated indication of a power level at which messages are to be received at the network;

estimating a number of wireless-device transmissions from the received signal;

adjustng a condititonal transmit power level of the wireless device in response to said indication; and

transmitting, at the conditional transmit leve, data formatted into pilot signals and words.

15. An apparatus for wireless communications, said apparatus comprising:

a processor configured to;

sample the received signal at an initial sampling rate;

estimate a number of wireless-device transmissions from the received signal; and

command at least one of;

changing the initial sampling rate to an updated sampling rate, and

a user equipment transmission adjustment to avoid an error-floor condition due to operating outside of a rate-region of a multiple access system.

16. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein said processor is further configured to collect samples of first portions of the received signal, sampled at the initial sampling rate.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 wherein said processor is further configured to select the updated sampling rate to sample additional portions of the received signal.

18. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the initial sampling rate is at a sub-Nyquist sampling rate.

19. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the processor is further configured to collect samples of first portions of the received signal, sampled at the initial sampling rate.

20. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute wireless communication, said method comprising:

sampling the received signal at an initial sampling rate;

estimating a number of wireless-device transmissions from the received signal; and

commanding at least one of;

changing the initial sampling rate to an updated sampling rate, and

a user equipment transmission adjustment to avoid an error-floor condition due to operating outside of a rate-region of a multiple access system.