Shared cell receiver for uplink capacity improvement in wireless communication networks
AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
InventorsLeonard Lightstone, Gary David Boudreau, Edward Mah
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Abstract
A wireless communication method and system are provided in which an uplink data stream that has uplink data associated with a user device is received. Channel performance data based at least in part on a portion of the uplink data stream is determined. A determination is made whether the channel performance data meets a predetermined performance level. The portion of the uplink data stream is discarded when the channel performance data does not meet the predetermined performance level. The portion of the uplink data stream is tagged for additional processing when the channel performance data meets the predetermined performance level.
Claims20
A wireless communication system, comprising:
- a first network device having a cellular identification, cell ID, the first network device forwarding a first uplink data stream having first uplink data associated with a user device;
- and
- a base station in communication with the first network device, the base station having the same cell ID as the cell ID of the first network device, the base station including:
- at least one receiver, the at least one receiver receiving the first uplink data stream from the first network device;
- and
- a processor, the processor configured to:
- determine channel performance data based at least in part on a portion of first uplink data stream;
- determine whether the channel performance data meets a predetermined performance level;
- discard the portion of the first uplink data stream when the channel performance data does not meet the predetermined performance level;
- and
- tag the portion of the first uplink data stream for additional processing when the channel performance data meets the predetermined performance level.
A wireless communication method, comprising:
- receiving a first uplink data stream having uplink data associated with a user device;
- determining channel performance data based at least in part on a portion of the first uplink data stream;
- determining whether the channel performance data meets a predetermined performance level;
- discarding the portion of the first uplink data stream when the channel performance data does not meet the predetermined performance level;
- and
- tagging the portion of the first uplink data stream for additional processing when the channel performance data meets the predetermined performance level.
A wireless communication system, the system comprising:
- a first network device having a cellular identification, cell ID, the first network device forwarding a first data stream having uplink data associated with a first user device;
- a base station in communication with the first network device, the base station having the same cell ID as the cell ID of the first network device, the base station including:
- at least one receiver, the at least one receiver receiving the first data stream;
- a processor, the processor configured to:
- determine first channel performance data based at least in part on a portion of the first data stream relayed from a user device to the base station;
- determine first hearability data, the first hearability data indicating whether the first channel performance meets a signal criteria;
- the first hearability data being determined based at least in part on a weighted sum of first channel performance data associated with the first user device and
- schedule resource blocks for the first user device based at least in part on the first hearability data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.