Power reduction methods in enhanced transmitters and receivers
AssigneeAlcatel-Lucent USA Inc.
InventorsFrancis Dominique, Shirish Nagaraj, Hongwei Kong, Walid Elias Nabhane
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Abstract
Whether a receiver supports blind data channel detection is determined, and transmission of control channel information associated with a data channel is disabled if the determining step determines the receiver is capable of detecting the data channel without the use of control channel information. Data is transmitted to the receiver on the data channel without the control channel information after disabling of the transmission of the control channel information.
Claims12
A method for power reduction at a transmitter, the method comprising:
- determining, at the transmitter, whether a receiver supports detecting a data channel without the use of control channel information;
- disabling transmission of control channel information associated with the data channel if the determining step determines the receiver is capable of detecting the data channel without the use of control channel information;
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- transmitting data to the receiver on the data channel without the control channel information.
A method for power reduction at a receiver, the method comprising:
- disabling, at the receiver, processing of control channel information associated with a received data channel in response to a received discontinue indicator, the received discontinue indicator indicating transmission of the control channel information has been disabled;
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- detecting the data channel at the receiver without the use of the control channel information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.