Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a timing correction message in a wireless communication system
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsRavi Palanki, Aamod Khandekar
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Abstract
A method for transmitting a timing correction message in a wireless communication system, the method comprising, Generating the timing correction message comprising a 8-bit MessageID field and a 2-bit NumSectors field wherein, the NumSectors field indicates the number of sector records in the message and a 16 bit TimingCorrection field wherein, the TimingCorrection indicates the timing correction on the sector and last 15 bits indicate the magnitude of timing correction in units of ⅛ chips and transmitting the timing correction message over a communication link.
Claims10
A method for transmitting a timing correction message in a wireless communication system, the method characterized in that:
- generating the timing correction message comprising a 8-bit MessageID field and a 2-bit NumSectors field wherein, the NumSectors field indicates the number of sector records in the message and a 16 bit TimingCorrection field wherein, the TimingCorrection indicates the timing correction on the sector and last 15 bits indicate the magnitude of timing correction in units of ⅛ chips;
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- transmitting the timing correction message over a communication link.
The method as claimed in claim 2, characterized in that, setting the first bit of the TimingCorrection field to ‘0’ for timing advance command and to ‘1’ for timing retard command.
A computer-readable medium including instructions stored thereon, characterized in that:
- a set of instructions for generating the timing correction message comprising a 8-bit MessageID field and a 2-bit NumSectors field wherein, the NumSectors field indicates the number of sector records in the message and a 16 bit TimingCorrection field wherein, the TimingCorrection indicates the timing correction on the sector and last 15 bits indicate the magnitude of timing correction in units of ⅛ chips;
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- a set of instructions for transmitting the timing correction message over a communication link.
An apparatus operable in a wireless communication system, characterized in that:
- means for generating the timing correction message comprising a 8-bit MessageID field and a 2-bit NumSectors field wherein, the NumSectors field indicates the number of sector records in the message and a 16 bit TimingCorrection field wherein, the TimingCorrection indicates the timing correction on the sector and last 15 bits indicate the magnitude of timing correction in units of ⅛ chips;
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- means for transmitting the timing correction message over a communication link.
A method for receiving a timing correction message in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:
- receiving the timing correction message comprising a 8-bit MessageID field and a 2-bit NumSectors field wherein, the NumSectors field indicates the number of sector records in the message and a 16 bit TimingCorrection field wherein, the TimingCorrection indicates the timing correction on the sector and last 15 bits indicate the magnitude of timing correction in units of ⅛ chips;
- processing the timing correction message.
A computer-readable medium including instructions stored thereon, comprising:
- a set of instructions for receiving a timing correction message comprising a 8-bit MessageID field and a 2-bit NumSectors field wherein, the NumSectors field indicates the number of sector records in the message and a 16 bit TimingCorrection field wherein, the TimingCorrection indicates the timing correction on the sector and last 15 bits indicate the magnitude of timing correction in units of ⅛ chips;
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- a set of instructions for processing the TokenAssigmment message.
An apparatus operable in a wireless communication system, comprising:
- means for receiving a timing correction message comprising a 8-bit MessageID field and a 2-bit NumSectors field wherein, the NumSectors field indicates the number of sector records in the message and a 16 bit TimingCorrection field wherein, the TimingCorrection indicates the timing correction on the sector and last 15 bits indicate the magnitude of timing correction in units of ⅛ chips;
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- means for processing the timing correction message.
The apparatus as claimed in claim 9, further comprising means for interpreting the first bit of the TimingCorrection field as timing advance command when ‘0’ and as timing retard command when ‘1’.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.