Wireless communication methods and apparatus supporting infrastructure mode and peer to peer communications.

Parameter selection in a point-to-point communication system

Background

I. Field

5 The following description refers in general to wireless communications and, more particularly, to the identification of parameters for communication through a local area point-to-point network.

II. Background

Wireless communications systems are generally used to provide various types of communication; for example, voice and / or data can be provided through such communication systems

10 wireless A typical wireless communications system or network can provide multiple users access to one or more shared resources. For example, a system can use a variety of multiple access techniques such as frequency division multiplexing (FDM), time division multiplexing (TDM), code division multiplexing (CDM), orthogonal frequency division multiplexing ( OFDM), etc.

Common wireless communications systems use one or more base stations that provide an area

fifteen of coverage. A typical base station can transmit multiple data streams for broadcast, multicast and / or unicast services, in which the data stream can be a data stream that may have an independent reception interest for a wireless terminal. A wireless terminal within the coverage area of ​​such a base station may be used to receive one, more than one or all of the data streams carried by the composite stream, as described, for example, in WO 2005/117463 A2 , which describes the

twenty roaming of wireless terminals and reception data of different base stations in the new coverage area. Also, a wireless terminal can transmit data to the base station or to another wireless terminal.

According to another example, wireless communication systems frequently use ad hoc or point-to-point architectures, in which a wireless terminal can transfer signals directly to another wireless terminal. In this way, the signals do not need to pass through a base station; instead, the wireless terminals within the range of another can be detected and / or communicated directly. Point-to-point networks can take advantage of several parts of the wireless spectrum for data transfer, as described, for example, in US 2005/0135295 A1, however, wireless spectrum is an expensive and valuable resource. In addition, conventional point-to-point networks usually communicate inefficiently, so that wireless spectrum is wasted. Therefore, there is a need for new and better ways to use the wireless spectrum

30 in a point to point environment. Therefore, wireless terminals need improved skills to identify the current state of the point-to-point network and dynamically adapt to these states.

Summary

This need is satisfied by the content of the independent claims of the present invention. Below is a simplified summary of one or more embodiments in order to provide a

35 Basic understanding of such embodiments. This summary is not an extensive overview of all contemplated accomplishments, and is not intended to identify key or critical elements of all accomplishments or to delimit the scope of any or all accomplishments. Its sole purpose is to present some concepts of one or more embodiments in a simplified manner as a prelude to the more detailed description that will be presented later.

According to one or more embodiments and their corresponding description, several aspects are described to facilitate the

40 selection of parameters to be used in a local area point-to-point network. The parameters may refer to a separation between tones, a cyclic prefix, a symbol time, etc. In addition, the parameters can be determined based on a state (for example, discovery status of homologous devices, control traffic status, data traffic status, ...) associated with the local area point-to-point network. In addition, the local area point-to-point network can share the spectrum with a wide area network; that way, the parameters

Four. Five for the point-to-point network they can be selected based on the type of wide area network (for example, air interface technology) and / or the parameters related to the wide area network.

According to related aspects, this document describes a procedure that facilitates the selection of parameters in a local area point-to-point network. The method may comprise the use of a first set of parameters for a first state of a point-to-point network. In addition, the procedure may include the use of

fifty a second set of parameters for a second state of the point-to-point network.

Another aspect concerns a wireless communications device. The wireless communications apparatus may include a memory that stores instructions related to the identification of a state associated with a point-to-point communication and with the determination of a set of parameters that will be used for point-to-point communication depending on the state identified. In addition, the wireless communications apparatus may include a processor, coupled to memory, configured to execute the instructions stored in the memory.

5 Another additional aspect concerns a wireless communications device that allows communication through a local area point-to-point network. The wireless communications apparatus may include means for identifying a state associated with a point-to-point communication; and means for accessing a set of parameters that will be used for point-to-point communication depending on the state.

Another additional aspect refers to a machine-readable medium that has stored in the same instructions

10 machine-executable to determine a state of a point-to-point network, determine the type of wide area network that shares a common bandwidth with the point-to-point network, and acquire parameter data for use with the network point to point depending on the state and type of the wide area network.

According to another aspect, an apparatus of a wireless communications system may include a processor, where the processor may be configured to determine a state associated with communications over a network.

fifteen point-to-point and to obtain a set of parameters that will be used for communication through the point-to-point network depending on the state.

For the fulfillment of the above and related objectives, one or more embodiments comprise the features described hereinafter in detail and particularly indicated in the claims. The following description and the accompanying drawings set forth in detail certain illustrative aspects of one or more

twenty realizations However, these aspects only indicate some of the various ways in which the principles of the various embodiments can be used, and the described embodiments are intended to include all such aspects and their equivalents.

Brief description of the drawings

FIG. 1. It is an illustration of a wireless communications system according to various aspects presented in this document.

FIG. 2 is an illustration of an example system that selects parameters based on a state associated with a point-to-point communication.

FIG. 3 is an illustration of an example state diagram associated with a communication through a local area point-to-point network.

30 FIG. 4 is an illustration of an example frequency spectrum according to several aspects.

FIG. 5 is an illustration of an example symbol that can be transferred according to various aspects described in this document.

FIG. 6 is an illustration of an example graph of parameter intervals that can be used during different states in the environment of a local area point-to-point network.

35 FIG. 7 is an illustration of an example system that uses a shared spectrum to allow communication across a wide area network and a point-to-point network.

FIG. 8 is an illustration of an example methodology that facilitates the selection of parameters in a local area point-to-point network.

FIG. 9 is an illustration of an example methodology that facilitates the identification of parameters that will be used for communication through a local area point-to-point network.

FIG. 10 is an illustration of an example methodology that facilitates the identification of point-to-point parameters based on a state and a type of wide area network (eg, air interface technology).

FIG. 11 is an illustration of an example communications system implemented according to several aspects, which includes multiple cells.

Four. Five FIG. 12 is an illustration of an example base station according to several aspects.

FIG. 13 is an illustration of an example wireless terminal (for example, a mobile device, an end node, ...) implemented according to various aspects described in this document.

FIG. 14 is an illustration of an example system that allows communication through a local area point-to-point network.

Detailed description

Several embodiments will be described below with reference to the drawings, in which the same reference numbers are used to refer to the same elements in all of them. For explanatory reasons, in the

5 Numerous specific details are set forth in the following description in order to provide a thorough understanding of one or more embodiments. However, it may be apparent that such an embodiment (s) can be implemented without these specific details. In other cases, widely known structures and devices are shown in the form of a block diagram in order to facilitate the description of one or more embodiments.

As used in this application, the terms "component", "module", "system" and the like refer to

10 an entity related to computing, whether it is hardware, firmware, a combination of hardware and software, software, or running software. For example, a component can be, but not limited to, a process that runs on a processor, a processor, an object, an executable, a thread of execution, a program and / or a computer. By way of illustration, both an application that runs on a computing device and the computing device can be a component. One or more components may reside in a process and / or thread of execution, and a

fifteen component can be located on a computer and / or distributed between two or more computers. In addition, these components can be executed from several computer-readable media that have several data structures stored therein. Components can communicate through local and / or remote processes according to a signal that presents one or more data packets (for example, data from a component that interacts with another component in a local system, distributed system, and / or through a network such as Internet with other systems

twenty by signal).

In addition, several embodiments are described in this document in relation to a wireless terminal. A wireless terminal may also be called a system, subscriber unit, subscriber station, mobile station, mobile, mobile device, remote station, remote terminal, access terminal, user terminal, terminal, wireless communications device, user agent, device of user or user equipment (UE). A wireless terminal 25 may be a cellular telephone, a wireless telephone, a session initiation protocol (SIP) telephone, a wireless local loop station (WLL), a personal digital assistant (PDA), a manual device capable of Wireless connection, a computer device or other processing device connected to a wireless modem. In addition, several embodiments are described in this document in relation to a base station. A base station can be used for communications with a wireless terminal / terminals (s) and can also

30 be called an access point, node B or using another terminology.

In addition, several aspects or features described in this document can be implemented as a manufacturing procedure, apparatus or article using standard engineering programming and / or techniques. The term "article of manufacture" is used in this document in order to cover a computer program accessible from any device, carrier or computer-readable medium. For example, computer readable media may include, but are not limited to, magnetic storage devices (for example, a hard disk, a flexible disk, magnetic tapes, etc.), optical discs (for example, a compact disc ( CD), a digital versatile disc (DVD), etc.), smart cards and flash memory devices (for example, EPROM, card, USB stick, USB key-shaped device (key drive), etc.). In addition, various storage media described in this document may represent one or more devices and / or other machine-readable media for storing information. He

40 The term "machine-readable medium" may include, but is not limited to, wireless channels and other various means capable of storing, containing and / or carrying an instruction / instructions and / or data.

Referring now to Fig. 1, a wireless communication system 100 is illustrated according to various embodiments presented herein. System 100 may comprise one or more wireless terminals

102 Although two wireless terminals 102 are shown, it should be appreciated that the system 100 may include

Four. Five substantially any number of wireless terminals 102. Wireless terminals 102 may be, for example, cell phones, smartphones, laptops, manual communication devices, manual computing devices, satellite radios, global positioning systems, PDAs and / or any another device suitable for communication through the wireless communication system 100. The wireless terminals 102 can communicate directly with each other through a point-to-point local area network (P2P)

fifty (for example, an ad hoc network). Point-to-point communication can be carried out by transferring signals directly between the wireless terminals 102; therefore, the signals do not need to pass through a base station (for example, a base station 104).

In addition, the system 100 can support a wide area network (WAN). System 100 may include a base station 104 (for example, an access point) and / or any number of disparate base stations (not shown) in one or more sectors that receive, transmit, repeat, etc., communications signals wireless with each other and / or for one or more wireless terminals 102. The base station 104 may comprise a chain of transmitters and a chain of receivers, each of which may in turn comprise a plurality of components associated with the

signal transmission and reception (for example, processors, modulators, multiplexers, demodulators, demultiplexers, antennas, ...) as one skilled in the art will appreciate. The wireless terminal (s) 102 may transmit signals to and / or receive signals from the base station 104 when communicating through the wide area infrastructure network supported by the system 100.

5 Point-to-point communication between the wireless terminals 102 can be synchronous and, therefore, the wireless terminals 102 can have a common knowledge of time. For example, the wireless terminals 102 may obtain time signals from the base station 104 (and / or a transmitter (not shown) that provides less functionality) used to synchronize the operation of the wireless terminals 102. In addition, it is contemplated that each point-to-point network can set its own time. According to an example, the wireless terminals

10 102 may discover counterpart devices for a first period of time and send and / or receive traffic for a second period of time.

The wireless terminals 102 may identify a state for a period of time associated with point-to-point communication, where the status refers to the type of communication between the wireless terminals 102 (e.g., discovery of homologous devices, traffic, radio messaging, ...) In addition, the wireless terminals 15 102 can recognize sets of parameters that will be used in relation to the identified states. For example, the parameters may refer to a separation between tones, a symbol time, a cyclic prefix, etc., for an OFDM-based air interface technology, or a CDMA chip speed for a CDMA-based air interface technology. In addition, the parameter sets can be uniquely customized to optimize the performance of the system 100 during different states, thereby improving the associated efficiency.

twenty to system 100. For example, parameter sets can be selected to manage / mitigate interference, increase spectrum reuse efficiency, mitigate overload, etc.

The local area point-to-point network and the wide area network can share a common wireless spectrum to carry out communications; therefore, bandwidth can be shared to transfer data across different types of networks. In addition, the parameters used in relation to the local area point-to-point network 25 can be determined based on parameters used for the wide area network; therefore, the parameters for each type of network may be different even if the networks can operate in the same spectrum. In addition, the air interface technique used in the point-to-point network may be different from that used in the wide area network. For example, the wide area network can use an OFDM-based air interface technology (for example, 3GPP LTE, WiMax, Flash-OFDM, ...), an aerial interface technology based on CDMA (for example, CDMA

30 2000, EV-DO, CDMA broadband UMTS, HSPA, ...) or a TDMA-based air interface technology (eg, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, ...), while the point-to-point network of local area you can use an aerial interface technology based on OFDM.

Referring now to Fig. 2, a system 200 is selected which selects parameters based on a state associated with a point-to-point communication. The system 200 includes a wireless terminal 202 that communicates with one (several) disparate wireless terminal (s) (eg, homologous device (s)) (not shown) to through a point-to-point network. The wireless terminal 202 may include a communicator 204 that allows such direct transfers of signals with homologous devices in the point-to-point environment. For example, communicator 204 may allow direct data transfers in the point-to-point architecture through a half-duplex mode, where wireless device 202 may not be able to receive and transmit simultaneously

40 signals with homologous devices. Communicator 204 (and / or a disparate component) may also allow wireless terminal 202 to transmit and / or receive data from a base station (not shown) through a wide area network. In addition, the communicator 204 may allow bandwidth sharing for the local area point-to-point network and the wide area network.

The wireless terminal 202 may further include a status identifier 206 and a parameter selector 208. The

Four. Five Status identifier 206 can determine a state currently associated with the local area point-to-point network. The point-to-point network can be synchronous; therefore, wireless terminal 202 and disparate wireless terminals may discover homologous devices during a set of time periods, transmit control traffic for a different set of time periods, transmit data traffic in a different set of time periods, etc. According to an example, the status identifier 206 can obtain, detect, derive, generate, etc.,

fifty time information (for example, the current time) from some source and, depending on the time information, the status identifier 206 can decipher the state at a particular time (for example, the current time). The status identifier 206 may allow synchronization of the wireless terminal 202 with disparate wireless terminals (for example, depending on the time information obtained); for example, the status identifier 206 can receive a signal from a source (for example, a base station, a transmitter, ...) with which it can

55 the operation of the wireless terminal 202 be synchronized. In some embodiment, the source is common to all the wireless terminals of the local area point-to-point network, so that the time information obtained from the common source is synchronized for all terminals Wireless In the local area point-to-point network, the status at a given time depends on the weather in a predetermined manner. Therefore, in a first interval of

time, the state is the discovery of homologous devices, while in a second time interval, the state is traffic. In the second time interval, a first part is for traffic control, while a second part is for a real traffic segment. Since the time information is synchronized for all terminals, the status is also synchronized. Therefore, in the first time interval, all 5 terminals of the local area point-to-point network are in the state of discovery of homologous devices, while in the second time interval, all terminals are in the traffic status The terminals achieve the synchronization of states by synchronizing their times and associating the state with the times in a predetermined manner. Therefore, the terminals do not have to explicitly exchange a control signal between them to achieve a synchronization of states. Therefore, wireless terminals that communicate through the local area point-to-point network may have a common knowledge of time. As a further example, a status identifier 206 can recognize a discovery status of homologous devices, a control traffic state, a data traffic state, a radio messaging state, etc. Point-to-point network states corresponding to different times can be predetermined. For example, such information can be stored in a query table stored in memory (for example, accessible with the status identifier

fifteen 206), derived by the state identifier 206 (for example, based on a predetermined formula), and / or obtained in any way by the state identifier 206.

The parameter selector 208 can access a set of parameters associated with the state determined by the status identifier 206. For example, the parameters may refer to a separation between tones, a symbol time, a cyclic prefix, etc. for an OFDM-based air interface technology, or at a CDMA 20 chip speed for a CDMA-based air interface technology. The parameter set selected by the parameter selector 208 may correspond uniquely to conditions associated with the identified state. According to one example, during the discovery of homologous devices (and / or control traffic), the parameter selector 208 can identify a set of parameters that mitigates the interference between the wireless terminal 202 and a (several) wireless device (s) ( s) trigger (s) associated with overlapping transmissions (for example, due to point-to-point communication through a half-duplex mode). Each wireless device can randomly select a transmission time during the discovery of homologous devices (and / or control traffic). The wireless device can operate in a half-duplex mode so that it cannot transmit and listen simultaneously. As a result, the device may not pick up the signal sent from other devices while it is transmitting. To reduce the probability of not picking up the signal from other devices, it may be desirable to reduce the duration of the transmission time; for example, the duration of the transmission time can be reduced by receiving data for a greater percentage of time and transmitting data for a smaller percentage of time (for example, because the wireless terminal 202 may not be able to receive and transmit concurrently). Therefore, the parameter set can provide a reduced symbol time (for example, compared to a symbol time used by the wide area network). As an additional example, during a traffic state of

35 data, the parameter selector 208 can choose a set of parameters that mitigate the overload (for example, increasing the symbol time with respect to cyclic prefixes) without balancing the parameter optimization under semi-duplex mode considerations, since the wireless terminal 202 will transmit or receive during the associated period of time without switching between transmission and reception.

Referring to Fig. 3, an example diagram 300 of states associated with a communication through is illustrated.

40 from a local area point to point network. According to one example, the communicator 204 of Fig. 2 can perform operations associated with each of the following states for communications through the point-to-point network. As illustrated, a horizontal axis 302 represents time. The states included in diagram 300 can be associated with respective sets of parameters to optimize communication through the point-to-point network, where the parameters can be based on types of signaling that can occur during each state. By

Four. Five For example, a state of discovery of homologous devices 304 may be used by homologous devices (eg, wireless terminals) to determine disparate homologous devices within a range that supports point-to-point communication; therefore, mutual detection and identification can be performed in the discovery of homologous devices 304. During the discovery of homologous devices 304, each homologous device can transmit data in some randomly selected symbols during the period

fifty of associated time. In addition, to identify homologous devices within range, an amount of reception time can be maximized for each homologous device (for example, to mitigate the impact of the half-duplex operation) since the point-to-point network uses a half-duplex transmission. In addition, traffic 306 may include a control part 308 (for example, control traffic status) and a data portion 310 (for example, data traffic status). The control part 308, for example, can be used to detect interference in the point-to-point environment.

55 point. Accordingly, the control part 308 can be associated with conditions similar to the discovery of homologous devices 304, since the homologous devices can transmit at randomly selected symbols during the state (for example, using a large percentage of time to receive data for monitor interference in the environment). Therefore, a set of parameters similar to those used for the discovery of homologous devices 304 can be used with the control part 308. In addition, during the part

60 of data 310, each homologous device can transmit or receive information without switching from one state to another. Thus, it is not necessary to consider a limitation associated with the half-duplex mode when optimized parameters are chosen for the data portion 310. Furthermore, although it is not illustrated, it should be appreciated that disparate states can be associated (eg radio messaging, .. .) with point-to-point communications. In addition, the time periods to carry out each state can be predetermined.

With reference to Fig. 4, an example frequency spectrum 400 is illustrated according to various aspects. As I know

5 illustrates, a horizontal axis 402 represents the frequency. A total amount of available bandwidth for a particular carrier frequency 404 can be divided into K equitably separated tones (for example, with a separation between tones Δ), where K can be any integer. These tones can be indexed from 0 to K-1. For example, tone 0 406, tone 1 408, tone 2 410 and tone K-1 412 are illustrated; however, the claimed content is not limited to this.

10 The separation between tones, Δ, can be a unique parameter corresponding to the states of the local area point to point network. For example, a similar separation between tones can be used for a counterpart device discovery state and a control traffic state, and a different separation between tones can be used for a data traffic state. As a further example, a wide area network may use a separation between tones that varies with respect to at least one of the separations between tones associated with the point-to-point network of

fifteen local area In addition, each particular type of wide area network can be associated with a corresponding separation between tones (for example, the Flash-OFDM can use a separation between tones of 11.25 kHz, 3GPP2 can use a separation between tones of 9.6 kHz , ...). In addition, the separations between tones associated with the different states of the local area point-to-point network can be determined based on the separation between tones of the particular type of wide area network with which a common bandwidth is shared (by example, the network point to

twenty local area point can operate within at least a part of the geographical area covered by the wide area network). Therefore, according to one example, if the local area point-to-point network coexists in a given spectrum with 3GPP2, the parameters of each state associated with point-to-point communication (for example, including the separation between tones) can determined according to the parameters (for example, separation between tones) for 3GPP2.

25 The separation between tones may depend on mobility. For example, mobility can cause a Doppler effect, which generates a frequency shift. Therefore, tone 0 406 can be transmitted with a corresponding frequency; however, when obtained at a receiver, tone 0 406 may have shifted to a different frequency. The separation between tones can be selected so that it is much larger than an expected Doppler shift. According to one example, the separation between tones can be approximately one

30 100 factor greater than the expected Doppler shift. Therefore, if the expected Doppler shift is 100 Hz (for example, for a WAN), the separation between tones can be of the order of 10 kHz. However, it should be appreciated that the claimed content is not limited to the example mentioned above. In addition, for a point-to-point local area environment, mobility may be lower compared to wide area networks and, therefore, the Doppler effect may be less. Therefore, a separation between more tones can be used

35 small for local area point-to-point networks (for example, for data traffic status, since the separation between tones and / or symbol time does not need to be based on interference mitigation considerations).

With reference to Fig. 5, an example symbol 500 is illustrated which can be transferred according to various aspects described herein. As illustrated, a horizontal axis 502 represents time. The symbol 500 can be

40 sinusoidal (for example, in an OFDM environment). Symbol 500, TSYM, includes a cyclic prefix 504 and a part 506 that can carry data (also known as the IFFT window). The length of part 506 is normally equal to 1 / Δ, where Δ is the separation between tones. The time duration of the cyclic prefix 504, TCP, may be greater than an expected delay dispersion. In addition, TCP and TSYM can be selected parameters for point-to-point networks (for example, different values ​​for different states) and wide area networks.

Four. Five Multi-path propagation can produce a delay spread. For example, a single transmitted signal can reach a receiver through two or more paths. According to this example, copies of the signal can be obtained at different times associated with the disparate paths. The delay spread can be correlated with a size of an area through which the signals propagate within a particular network. According to an illustration, in a wide area network (for example, that can be associated with a large area

fifty geographic), the delay dispersion can be approximately 2 to 3 μs; therefore, the cyclic prefix (for example, TCP) can be approximately 10 μs. In addition, for a local area point-to-point network, the delay spread may be smaller (for example, because it is associated with a smaller geographical area); for example, the delay spread may be of the order of nanoseconds. Therefore, a cyclic prefix (for example, TCP) associated with the local area point-to-point network can also be of the order of 1 μs.

55 In addition, for example, the cyclic prefix may be similar for disparate states related to the local area point-to-point network (for example, the cyclic prefix may be similar for the discovery of homologous devices, control traffic, traffic of data,…).

The cyclic prefix 504 assumes a supplementary overload within the symbol 500. For example, in an area network

extensive, 10% of the 500 symbol can be an additional load (for example, the TCP can be 10 μs and the TSYM can be 100 μs). In addition, for a local area network, the separation between tones (Δ) may be smaller compared to the separation between tones of the wide area network (for example, for the state of data traffic) and, therefore, , the FFT window (for example, TSYM) may increase, thereby reducing the overhead.

The reduction of the overload (for example, increasing the symbol time and reducing the separation between tones) can be balanced in relation to another design limitation, described later, in the local area point-to-point network (for example, during the discovery of homologous devices and control traffic). Homologous devices may lack the ability to receive and transmit simultaneously in the point-to-point network. For example, the discovery of homologous devices can be carried out so that the homologous devices transmit signature signals at random times. Therefore, when a homologous device transmits its signature signal, it may lack the ability to receive signature signals transmitted by disparate homologous devices. Therefore, when the time of the TSYM symbol increases, the probability of a disparate homolog device concurrently transmitting a symbol increases, making it more likely that a homologous device will not pick up the signal sent by another homologous device; therefore, the symbol times for the point-to-point network used during the discovery of homologous devices and the control traffic may be shorter than those used for the wide area network and / or data traffic associated with the communication point-to-point to mitigate the probability of transmission overlap from different homologous devices.

Referring to Fig. 6, an example graph 600 of parameter intervals that can be used during different states in a point-to-point local area environment is illustrated. According to an example, the parameters used for the point-to-point environment can be determined based on the parameters associated with a wide area network that currently uses the spectrum bandwidth available for point-to-point communications. Figure 600 illustrates intervals of separation between tones in relation to a separation between wide-area network tones. The separation between point-to-point tones can be determined based on a separation between wide-area network tones so that ΔP2P = f (ΔWAN), where ΔP2P is the separation between tones for the point-to-point network and ΔWAN is the Tone separation for wide area networks. For example, ΔP2P = NΔWAN, where N is a real number. Therefore, in the interval 1, N ≥ 1 (for example, N = 2, 4, 8, 10, 12, 16,…). The separations between tones in the interval 1 can be used for the discovery of homologous devices, control traffic, etc. In interval 1, the pitch space is large and the symbol time is short. In addition, interval 2 may be associated with separations between tones used for a state of data traffic, where interval 2 may include separations between tones such that N ≤ 1 (for example, N = 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/10, 1/12, 1/16,…). In interval 2, the pitch space is small and the symbol time is long. According to another example, the separation between tones associated with the discovery of homologous devices and control traffic can be almost 5 times greater than the separation between tones used for data traffic. According to a further example, the discovery of homologous devices and the control traffic can use a separation between tones of 8 ΔWAN (for example, in the interval 1), while a separation between tones of ΔWAN or 1Δ (for example, in the interval 2) can be used for data traffic; by

two WAN

therefore, the ratio between these separations between tones can be 8 or 16, for example. However, it should be appreciated that the claimed content is not limited to the examples mentioned above.

Referring now to Fig. 7, a system 700 is used that uses a shared spectrum to allow communication through a wide area network and a point-to-point network. System 700 includes a wireless terminal 202 which may further comprise a communicator 204, a status identifier 206 and a parameter selector 208. The communicator 204 (and / or a disparate component (not shown)) can allow the sending and / or reception of data through a wide area network (for example, by communicating with a base station (not shown)). In addition, communicator 204 may allow communication through a local area point-to-point network. The wireless terminal 202 can communicate through any type of wide area network (for example, 3GPP LTE, 3GPP2 EV-DO, CDMA-2000, UMTS W-CDMA, GSM, EDGE, WiMax, Flash-OFDM, ...). For example, wireless terminal 202 may use a time division duplexing mode - orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM-TDD) to obtain and / or transmit data through the wide area network (e.g., traffic of uplink in a first set of times, downlink traffic in a disparate set of times, ...). In addition, the communicator 204 allows the wireless terminal 202 to communicate with a (several) disparate counterpart device (s) (for example, disparate wireless terminals (not shown)); however, wireless terminal 202 may not be able to transmit and receive signals concurrently while communicating through the point-to-point environment half-duplex, for example.

In addition, the status identifier 206 may determine a state associated with point-to-point communications (for example, at a particular time). The status identifier 206 can obtain time information from some system source. Exemplary sources include the wide area network base station that sends a broadcast signal (beacon, PN, ...), an access point in the local area point-to-point network, an internal clock and a satellite (for example, GPS). The status identifier 206 can then determine the status associated with a particular time based on the time information and the predetermined mapping between time and status. In addition, parameter selector 208 can identify a set of parameters for use in point-to-point communications based on the determined state. For example, the parameter selector 208 can choose a set of parameters (for example, a shorter symbol time, a greater separation between tones, ...) that minimizes the probability that one (several) homologous device (s) ) shoot (s) transmit (n) at substantially times

5 similar in comparison to wireless terminal 202 when state identifier 206 recognizes that status refers to the discovery of homologous devices or control traffic; therefore, wireless terminal 202 would probably not lose such data transferred from the disparate counterpart device (s) using such a set of parameters.

Wireless terminal 202 may further include a WAN identifier 702 that can determine whether a width of

10 Spectrum band is available for wireless terminal 202 for point-to-point communications. In addition, the WAN identifier 702 can detect the type of wide area network that is currently using the spectrum bandwidth, for example, the specific air interface technology used by the WAN. According to this example, the WAN 702 identifier can determine that the wide area network is a wide area network of type LTE, 3GPP, 3GPP2, UMTS, WiMax, Flash-OFDM, etc. As another example, the WAN 702 identifier can also detect

fifteen System parameters related to the wide area network available. In addition, parameter selector 208 can access parameter data that will be used for the point-to-point network during an identified state based on the identified air interface technology used by the wide area network (for example, the type of Wide area network available determined by the WAN identifier 702) and / or associated system parameters. The set of parameters for the point-to-point network can subsequently be used to transmit and / or receive data

twenty during the associated time segment for the state.

In addition, wireless terminal 202 may include a memory 704 and a processor 706. Memory 704 may contain one (several) query table (s) that specifies (n) parameter sets (for example, parameter set 1, the set of parameters K,…) corresponding to several states associated with the point-to-point network. In addition, memory 704 may include wide area network parameters corresponding to various types of

25 wide area networks. In addition, memory 704 may store instructions to determine the identity of a wide area network, to detect parameters associated with the wide area network, to identify a state associated with a point-to-point network, to identify and / or derive parameters which are used in the point-to-point network, etc. In addition, processor 706 may execute the instructions and / or functions described in this document.

According to one example, wireless terminal 202 can enter a wide area network. The identifier of WAN 702

30 You can determine the identity of the wide area network. In addition, or as an alternative, the WAN identifier 702 can detect information about the wide area network (eg, parameters of the wide area network). The state identifier 206 can determine a state associated with a local area point-to-point network. In addition, parameter selector 208 can use a query table stored in memory 704 to select point-to-point parameters (for example, pitch separation, symbol time, cyclic prefix, ...) that is

35 they will use in the communication through the local area point to point network. For example, the query table stored in memory 704 may specify values ​​for one or more of the point-to-point parameters that correlate with the identified type of wide area network and / or with the state. Therefore, depending on the identity of the wide area network and the recognized state, the parameter selector 208 can use the query table or a predetermined formula to determine the parameters to be used.

40 As an additional illustration, the parameter selector 208 can calculate the parameters that will be used with a local area point-to-point network based on an identified state. The WAN identifier 702 can determine WAN parameters used for a wide area network in the same spectrum of a point-to-point network. For example, the WAN identifier 702 can search for a beacon, a PN sequence signal (pseudorandom), a pilot signal or other broadcasting signals (for example, transmitted by a base station (not shown)), which

Four. Five they can be a signature signal associated with a wide area network. In addition, the WAN identifier 702 can analyze the broadcast signal to estimate WAN parameters associated with the wide area network. According to another example, the WAN identifier 702 can identify the type of wide area network (for example, the air interface technology used) and determine WAN parameters associated therewith from a query table stored in memory 704. However, it should be noted that the claimed content is not limited to

fifty Examples mentioned above. Then, the parameter selector 208 can derive parameters for the point-to-point network based on the WAN parameters and a current state determined by the status identifier 206. Therefore, parameter selector 208 can optimize the selection of point-to-point parameters based on knowledge of the WAN parameters that will be used in a wide area network in the same spectrum, as well as under conditions corresponding to a state current point to point.

55 If the point-to-point network coexists in a given spectrum with the wide area network, the P2P parameters can be determined based on the WAN parameters and the P2P state. According to one example, parameter selector 208 can generate P2P parameters based on this function. According to an additional example, the information describing the P2P parameters that correlate with the WAN parameters and / or with the states may be included.

in one (several) query table (s) stored in memory 704. According to an illustration, suppose that WAN and P2P networks use OFDM-based air interface technologies. The P2P parameters can be chosen such that ΔP2P = f (ΔWAN), where ΔP2P is the separation between tones for the point-to-point network and ΔWAN is the separation between tones for the wide area network. For example, ΔP2P = NΔWAN, where N is a real number. When the 5-state identifier 206 determines that the point-to-point environment is associated with a state of counterpart device discovery or a control traffic state, N ≥ 1 (for example, N = 2, 4, 8, 10, 12, 16, ...). In another example, the state identifier 206 may recognize a data traffic state associated with the point-to-point environment; therefore, N ≤ 1 (for example, N = 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/10, 1/12, 1/16,…). In addition, the length of the cyclic prefix is ​​chosen from

so that TCP_P2P = g (TCP_WAN) (for example, where K = 2, 4, 8, 10, 12, 16, ...). While N is

10 different for different states, in one or more embodiments, K is the same for all states. For example, N = 8 for the discovery status of homologous devices or a control traffic state, and N = 1/2 for a data traffic state. However, K = 8 for the three states. Therefore, in several embodiments, the separation between tones used for the point-to-point network may be N times greater than the separation between tones used for the wide area network, and the symbol time for the point-to-point network. it can be N times less than the time of

fifteen symbol for the wide area network. It should be noted that the fog functions may depend on the particular air interface used by the WAN. For example, the functions for g may be different if the WAN uses 3GPP LTE air interface technology or if the WAN uses WiMax air interface technology, even if both technologies may be based on OFDM. In addition, according to an illustration, assume that the P2P network uses OFDM-based air interface technology but that the WAN network uses an air interface technology based on

twenty CDMA, such as UMTS W-CDMA. The P2P parameters can be chosen such that ΔP2P = h (FCWAN), where FCWAN can represent a system parameter used in the W-CDMA UMTS (for example, CDMA chip rate).

Referring to Figs. 8 to 10, methodologies related to the selection of parameters for communication in a point-to-point environment based on an identified state are illustrated. Although, to simplify the explanation, the methodologies are shown and described as a series of actions, it should be understood and appreciated that the methodologies are not limited by the order of the actions since some of the actions, according to one or more embodiments, they can occur in different orders and / or simultaneously with other actions with respect to what is shown and described in this document. For example, those skilled in the art will understand and appreciate that a methodology can alternatively be represented as a series of interrelated states or events, such as in a state diagram. In addition, not all illustrated actions may be necessary to implement a

30 methodology according to one or more embodiments.

With reference to Fig. 8, a methodology 800 is illustrated that facilitates the selection of parameters in a local area point-to-point network. In 802, a first set of parameters can be used for a first state in a point-to-point network. For example, the parameters may refer to a separation between tones, a symbol time, a cyclic prefix, etc. The first set of parameters can be used for transmission and / or reception through the point-to-point network for a period of time associated with the first state. In 804, a second set of parameters can be used for a second state in the point-to-point network. The second set of parameters can be used to send and / or obtain data through the point-to-point network in a period of time corresponding to the second state. Several states may be associated with communication through the point-to-point network. For example, peer-to-peer communication can use a state of discovery of peer devices, a state of control traffic, a state of data traffic, a state of radio messaging, etc. In addition, disparate states can use different sets of parameters. As an example, the discovery of homologous devices and the control traffic can be optimized to mitigate and / or manage the interferences between the transmissions of different homologous devices; therefore, such states can use a set of parameters that include shorter symbol times and greater 45 separations between tones. According to an additional example, data traffic can influence the parameters that mitigate the overload (for example, associated with cyclic prefixes), since each homologous device transmits

or receives data without switching for a period of time associated with such state. Therefore, the set of parameters for the data traffic state may include a longer symbol time and a smaller separation between tones, which may reduce the percentage of global symbol time associated with the cyclic prefix.

fifty To reduce overload.

Referring now to Fig. 9, a methodology 900 is illustrated that facilitates the identification of the parameters that will be used for communication through a local area point-to-point network. In 902 a state associated with point-to-point communication can be identified. The states used for point-to-point communication can occur at predetermined instants of time (for example, determined based on a predetermined formula). In addition, the peer devices of the point-to-point network can be synchronized (for example, based on a received signal) and, therefore, each homologous device can recognize periods of time associated with the discovery of homologous devices, the traffic data, control traffic, radio messaging, etc. According to an illustration, the current time can be identified and a state corresponding to the current time can be determined. Therefore, for example, the status can be calculated based on a formula, retrieved from a query table stored in memory, detected, etc. In 904, depending on the status, a set of parameters can be accessed to be used for point-to-point communication. According to one example, one or more of the parameters can be obtained from a query table stored in memory. According to another example, one or more of the parameters can be calculated based on, at least in part, the state. In addition, the point-to-point network can share the spectrum with a wide area network. Therefore, the set of parameters can be determined based on the state, as well as disparate parameters associated with the wide area network. The set of parameters for point-to-point communication can be used to transmit and / or receive data through the point-to-point network. As an example, the set of parameters for a state of discovery of homologous devices or a state of

10 Control traffic may reduce the likelihood that a half-duplex homologous device may not pick up the signal transmitted by a second homologous device while the first homologous device is transmitting. According to another example, the set of parameters for a data traffic state can mitigate the overload including longer symbol times and / or separations between smaller tones.

With reference to Fig. 10, a methodology 1000 that facilitates the identification of point-to-point parameters is illustrated.

fifteen point depending on a state and a type of wide area network (for example, air interface technology). In 1002 the state of a point-to-point network can be identified. For example, the states associated with the discovery of homologous devices, control traffic, data traffic, etc., can be recognized based on a time value. In 1004 a type of wide area network that shares bandwidth with the point-to-point network can be identified. For example, the wide area network can use an interface technology

twenty OFDM-based airborne (for example, 3GPP LTE, WiMax, Flash-OFDM, ...), an aerial interface technology based on CDMA (for example, CDMA-2000, EV-DO, CDM broadband UMTS, HSPA , ...), or an TDMA-based air interface technology (for example, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, ...). In addition, WAN parameters can be determined, where the WAN parameters can refer to a separation between tones, a symbol time, a cyclic prefix, etc., for an OFDM-based air interface technology, or the CDMA chip speed for a

25 CDMA based air interface technology. In 1006 the parameters for the point-to-point network can be acquired depending on the state of the point-to-point network and the type of wide area network. For example, the parameters for the point-to-point network can be derived depending on the status and WAN parameters. In addition, point-to-point parameters can be retrieved from a query table stored in memory depending on the status and type of air interface technology used in the wide area network.

30 It can be appreciated that, according to one or more aspects described in this document, the determination of parameters that will be used in point-to-point communications can be inferred depending on the state of a point-to-point network. As used in this document, the term "infer" or "inference" generally refers to the process of reasoning about or deducing the states of the system, environment and / or user from a set of observations made through events and / or data. The inference can be used to identify a context or action

35 specific, or it can generate a probability distribution of states, for example. The inference can be probabilistic, that is, the calculation of a probability distribution of the states of interest based on a consideration of data and events. The inference can also refer to techniques used to create higher level events from a set of events and / or data. Such inference results in the generation of new events or actions from a set of observed events and / or stored event data, both

40 if the events are correlated in a near temporal proximity as if not, and if the events and data come from one or more sources of data and events.

According to one example, one or more of the procedures presented above may include the generation of inferences related to the determination of parameters that will be used with respect to communication through the point-to-point network. According to another example, an inference related to the selection of

Four. Five optimized parameters based on a state and / or the type of wide area network that influences the spectrum shared with the point-to-point network. It should be appreciated that the above examples have an illustrative nature and are not intended to limit the number of inferences that can be made or the manner in which such inferences are made in conjunction with the various embodiments and / or procedures described herein.

Fig. 11 illustrates an example communications system 1110 implemented according to several aspects, which includes

fifty multiple cells: cell I 1102, cell M 1104. It should be noted that neighboring cells 1102, 1104 overlap slightly, as indicated by a cell boundary region 1168, thereby creating the possibility of signal interference between transmitted signals. by base stations in neighboring cells. Each cell 1102, 1104 of the 1100 system includes three sectors. Cells that have not been subdivided into multiple sectors (N = 1), cells with two sectors (N = 2) and cells with more than 3 sectors (N> 3) are also possible according to various aspects. Cell 1102

55 it includes a first sector, sector I 1110, a second sector, sector II 1112, and a third sector, sector III 1114. Each sector 1110, 1112, 1114 has two sector border regions; Each border region is shared between two adjacent sectors.

Sector boundary regions provide the possibility of signal interference between signals transmitted by

base stations in neighboring sectors. Line 1116 represents a sector border region between sector I 1110 and sector II 1112; line 1118 represents a sector border region between sector II 1112 and sector III 1114; line 1120 represents a sector border region between sector III 1114 and sector I 1110. Also, cell M 1104 includes a first sector, sector I 1122, a second sector, sector II 1124, and a third sector, sector III 1126 Line 5 1128 represents a sector border region between sector I 1122 and sector II 1124; line 1130 represents a sector border region between sector II 1124 and sector III 1126; line 1132 represents a border region between sector III 1126 and sector I 1122. Cell I 1102 includes a base station (BS), base station I 1106, and a plurality of end nodes (EN) (eg, wireless terminals ) in each sector 1110, 1112, 1114. Sector I 1110 includes an EN (1) 1136 and an EN (X) 1138 coupled to the BS 1106 via wireless links 1140, 1142, 10 respectively; sector II 1112 includes an EN (1 ') 1144 and an EN (X') 1146 coupled to the BS 1106 via wireless links 1148, 1150, respectively; Sector III 1114 includes an EN (1 ") 1152 and an EN (X") 1154 coupled to the BS 1106 via wireless links 1156, 1158, respectively. Also, cell M 1104 includes a base station M 1108 and a plurality of end nodes (EN) in each sector 1122, 1124, 1126. Sector I 1122 includes an EN (1) 1136 'and an EN (X) 1138' coupled to the BS M 1108 via wireless links 1140 ', 1142',

fifteen respectively; sector II 1124 includes an EN (1 ') 1144' and an EN (X ') 1146' coupled to the BS M 1108 via wireless links 1148 ', 1150', respectively; sector 3 1126 includes an EN (1 ") 1152 'and an EN (X") 1154' coupled to the BS 1108 via wireless links 1156 ', 1158', respectively.

System 1100 also includes a network node 1160 that is coupled to BS I 1106 and BS M 1108 through network links 1162, 1164, respectively. The network node 1160 is also coupled to other network nodes, for example, other base stations, AAA server nodes, intermediate nodes, routers, etc., and to the Internet through a network link 1166. Network links 1162 , 1164, 1166 may be, for example, fiber optic cables. Each end node, for example EN (1) 1136, can be a wireless terminal that includes a transmitter as well as a receiver. The wireless terminals, for example the EN (1) 1136, can be moved through the 1100 system and can communicate via wireless links with the base station of the cell in which the EN is currently located. The wireless terminals, (WT), for example EN (1) 1136, can communicate with homologous nodes, for example other WTs within the system 1100 or outside the system 1100, through a base station, for example the BS 1106, and / or the network node 1160. The WTs, for example EN (1) 1136, can be mobile communication devices such as cell phones, personal data assistants with wireless modems, etc. Respective base stations perform a subset of tone assignments using a different procedure 30 for the fringe-symbol periods with respect to the procedure used to assign tones and determine tone breaks in the remaining symbol periods, for example, periods that They are not strip-symbol. Wireless terminals use the procedure for assigning subsets of tones together with information received from the base station, for example, base station slope ID, sector ID information, to determine the tones that they can use to receive data and information in specific strip-symbol periods. The sequence of

35 Assignment of subsets of tones is generated, according to various aspects, to distribute interference between sectors and between cells throughout respective tones.

The communication system 1100 can also support point-to-point local area communication. For example, a common spectrum can be used for point-to-point local area communication as well as for communication over the wide area network (for example, cellular infrastructure network). The wireless terminals 40 can communicate with other homologous devices through a local area point-to-point network such as point-to-point networks 1170, 1172 and 1174. Although three point-to-point networks 1170 to 1174 are shown, you must it is appreciated that any number, size, shape, etc., of point-to-point networks can be supported. For example, each point-to-point network 1170 to 1174 can support the transfer of signals directly between wireless terminals. In addition, each point-to-point network 1170 to 1174 may include wireless terminals in a similar geographical area (for example, within a mutual range). For example, EN (1) 1136 can communicate with EN (X) 1138 through the local area point-to-point network 1170. However, it should be appreciated that the wireless terminals do not need to be associated with the same sector and / or cell to be included in a common point to point network. In addition, point-to-point networks may overlap (for example, EN (X ') 1146 may influence point-to-point networks 1172 and 1174). In addition, a point-to-point network may not be supported by a terminal.

fifty wireless The wireless terminals may use the wide area network and / or the point-to-point network, where such networks overlap (for example, concurrently or serially). In addition, wireless terminals can make switching transparently or concurrently influence such networks. Accordingly, wireless terminals, whether transmitting and / or receiving, can selectively use one or more of the networks to optimize communications.

55 Fig. 12 illustrates an example base station 1200 according to various aspects. The base station 1200 implements sequences of assigning subsets of tones, with different sequences of assigning subsets of tones generated for different respective sector types of the cell. The base station 1200 can be used as any one of the base stations 1106, 1108 of the system 1100 of Fig. 11. The base station 1200 includes a receiver 1202, a transmitter 1204, a processor 1206, for example a CPU, an input / output interface 1208 and

60 a memory 1210 coupled to each other by a bus 1209 through which the various elements 1202, 1204,

1206, 1208 and 1210 can exchange data and information.

Sectorized antenna 1203 coupled to receiver 1202 is used to receive data and other signals, for example, channel notifications, from wireless terminal transmissions from each sector of the base station cell. A sectorized antenna 1205 coupled to the transmitter 1204 is used to transmit data and other 5 signals, for example, control signals, pilot signals, beacon signals, etc., to the wireless terminals 1300 (see Fig. 13) of each sector of the base station cell. In several aspects, the base station 1200 can use multiple receivers 1202 and multiple transmitters 1204, for example, an individual receiver 1202 for each sector and an individual transmitter 1204 for each sector. The processor 1206 may be, for example, a general purpose central processing unit (CPU). The 1206 processor controls the operation of the base station

10 1200 under the direction of one or more routines 1218 stored in memory 1210 and implements the procedures. The 1208 I / O interface provides a connection to other network nodes, coupling the BS 1200 to other base stations, access routers, AAA server nodes, etc., other networks and the Internet. Memory 1210 includes routines 1218 and data / information 1220.

Data / information 1220 includes data 1236, sequence information for assigning subsets of tones

fifteen 1238 including downlink time-symbol information 1240 and downlink tone information 1242, and wireless terminal data / information (WT) 1244 including a plurality of WT information sets: information 1246 of WT 1 and information 1260 of WT N. Each set of WT information, for example information 1246 of WT 1, includes data 1248, terminal ID 1250, sector ID 1252, uplink channel information 1254, downlink channel information 1256 e

twenty 1258 mode information.

Routines 1218 include communication routines 1222 and base station control routines 1224. Base station control routines 1224 include a 1226 scheduler module and 1228 signaling routines that include a 1230 tone subset assignment routine for strip periods -symbol, another downlink tone assignment jump routine 1232 for the rest of symbol periods, for example periods that are not of

25 strip-symbol, and a beacon routine 1234.

The data 1236 includes data to be transmitted that will be sent to the encoder 1214 of the transmitter 1204 to be encoded prior to transmission to the WT, and data received from the WTs that have been processed through the decoder 1212 of the receiver 1202 after receipt. The downlink time-symbol information 1240 includes frame synchronization structure information, such as super slot structure information, beacon slot and ultra slot, and information specifying whether a given symbol period is a fringe-symbol period, and if so, the index of the fringe-symbol period, and if the strip-symbol is a reset point to truncate the sequence of assignment of subsets of tones used by the base station. The downlink tone information 1242 includes information that includes a carrier frequency assigned to the base station 1200, the number and frequency of tones, and the set of subsets of tones to be assigned to the periods of

35 strip-symbol, and other specific cell and sector values ​​such as slope, slope index and type of sector.

Data 1248 may include data that WT1 1300 has received from a homologous node, data that WT 1 1300 wishes to transmit to a homologous node, and quality notification feedback information of the downlink channel. Terminal ID 1250 is an ID assigned to base station 1200 that identifies WT 1 1300. Sector ID 1252 includes information that identifies the sector in which WT 1 1300 is operating. Sector ID 1252 can be used, for example, to determine the type of sector. The uplink channel information 1254 includes information that identifies channel segments that have been assigned by the scheduler 1226 to the WT 1 1300 to use, for example, uplink traffic channel segments for data, specific control channels of the uplink for requests, power control, time control, etc. Each uplink channel 45 assigned to WT1 1300 includes one or more logical tones, each logical tone following an uplink skip sequence. The downlink channel information 1256 includes information that identifies channel segments that have been assigned by the scheduler 1226 to transport data and / or information to the WT1 1300, for example downlink traffic channel segments for user data. Each downlink channel assigned to the WT1 1300 includes one or more logical tones, each following a sequence of

fifty downlink jump. The 1258 mode information includes information that identifies the operating status of the WT1 1300, for example, suspended, standby, active.

The communication routines 1222 control the base station 1200 to carry out various communications operations and implement various communications protocols. The base station control routines 1224 are used to control that the base station 1200 performs basic functional tasks of the base station, for example,

55 generation and reception of signals, planning, and to implement the steps of the procedure of some aspects that include the transmission of signals to wireless terminals using the sequences of assignment of subsets of tones during the periods of strip-symbol.

Signaling routine 1228 controls the operation of receiver 1202 with its decoder 1212 and transmitter 1204 with its encoder 1214. Signaling routine 1228 is responsible for controlling the generation of transmitted data 1236 and control information. The tone subset allocation routine 1230 generates the subset of tones to be used in a strip-symbol period using the appearance procedure and 5 using 1220 data / information including 1240 downlink-symbol time information and sector ID 1252. The sequences of assigning subsets of downlink tones will be different for each type of sector in a cell and different for adjacent cells. The WT 1300 receive the signals in the fringe-symbol periods according to the sequences of assignment of subsets of downlink tones; The base station 1200 uses the same sequences of assigning subsets of downlink tones in order to generate the transmitted signals. Another downlink tone assignment jump routine 1232 generates downlink tone jump sequences, using information that includes downlink tone information 1242, and downlink channel information 1256, for symbol periods other than the periods of strip-symbol. Skip sequences of downlink data tones are synchronized across sectors of a cell. Beacon routine 1234 controls the transmission of a beacon signal, by

fifteen for example a signal of a relatively high power concentrated in one or some tones, which can be used for synchronization purposes, for example to synchronize the frame timing structure of the downlink signal and, therefore, the allocation sequence of subsets of tones with respect to a limit of ultraranura.

Fig. 13 illustrates an example wireless terminal (for example, an end node, mobile device, ...) 1300 which can

twenty used as any one of the wireless terminals (for example, end nodes, mobile devices, ...), for example EN (1) 1136, of the system 1100 shown in Fig. 11. Wireless terminal 1300 implements the sequences of assignment of subsets of tones. The wireless terminal 1300 includes a receiver 1302 that includes a decoder 1312, a transmitter 1304 that includes an encoder 1314, a processor 1306 and a memory 1308 that are coupled to each other via a bus 1310 through which the various elements 1302, 1304, 1306, 1308

25 They can exchange data and information. An antenna 1303 used to receive signals from a base station 1200 (and / or a disparate wireless terminal) is coupled to receiver 1302. An antenna 1305 used to transmit signals, for example, to base station 1200 (and / or a disparate wireless terminal) is coupled to transmitter 1304.

The processor 1306 (for example, a CPU) controls the operation of the wireless terminal 1300 and implements 30 procedures by executing routines 1320 and using data / information 1322 from memory 1308.

The data / information 1322 includes user data 1334, user information 1336, sequence information for assigning subsets of tones 1350 and a query table 1356. The user data 1334 may include data, destined for a homologous node, which will be routed to the encoder 1314 for encoding before being transmitted by the transmitter 1304 to the base station 1200, and data received from the base station 1200 that have been processed by decoder 1312 at receiver 1302. User information 1336 includes uplink channel information 1338, downlink channel information 1340, terminal ID information 1342, base station ID information 1344, sector ID information 1346 and mode information 1348. The uplink channel information 1338 includes information that identifies uplink channel segments that have been assigned by the base station 1200 to the wireless terminal 1300 for use when transmitting to the base station 1200. The uplink channels may include uplink traffic channels, uplink dedicated control channels, for example request channels, power control channels and timing control channels. Each uplink channel includes one or more logical tones, where each logical tone follows an uplink tone jump sequence. The uplink jump sequences are different between each type of sector of a cell and between adjacent cells. The downlink channel 45 information 1340 includes information that identifies downlink channel segments that have been assigned by the base station 1200 to the WT 1300 for use when the BS 1200 is transmitting data / information to the WT 1300. Downlink channels may include downlink traffic channels and allocation channels, where each downlink channel includes one or more logical tones, where each logical tone follows a downlink skip sequence that is synchronized between each sector of the

fifty cell.

The user information 1336 also includes terminal ID information 1342, which is an identification assigned to the base station 1200, base station ID information 1344 that identifies the specific base station 1200 with which the WT has established communications, and information of sector ID 1346 that identifies the specific sector of the cell where the WT 1300 is currently located. Base station ID 1344 provides a slope value

55 cell and sector ID information 1346 provides a type of sector index; The cell slope value and the sector index type can be used to calculate tone skip sequences. The mode information 1348 also included in the user information 1336 identifies whether the WT 1300 is in the suspended mode, in the standby mode or in the active mode.

The tone subset assignment sequence information 1350 includes downlink time symbol information 1352 and downlink tone information 1354. The strip time-downlink symbol information 1352 includes frame synchronization structure information, such as super slot structure, beacon and ultra slot slot information, and information specifying whether a given symbol period is a given period. fringe-symbol period, and if so, the index of the fringe-symbol period, and if the strip-symbol is a reset point to truncate the sequence of assignment of subsets of tones used by the base station. The downlink tone information 1354 includes information that includes a carrier frequency assigned to the base station 1200, the number and frequency of tones, and the set of subsets of tones to be assigned to the strip-symbol periods, and other specific cell and sector values ​​such as pending,

10 Slope index and type of sector.

Routines 1320 include communication routines 1324, wireless terminal control routines 1326, state identification routines 1328, WAN type determination routines 1330 and parameter selection routines 1332. Communication routines 1324 control the various communication protocols. communications used by the WT 1300. For example, communication routines 1324 may allow communication through an extensive area network 15 (for example, with the base station 1200) and / or a local area point-to-point network (for example, directly with a disparate wireless terminal (s). The wireless terminal control routines 1326 control the basic functionality of the wireless terminal 1300 including the control of receiver 1302 and transmitter 1304. State identification routines 1328 control the determination of states associated with point-to-point networks. For example, state identification routines 1328 may allow synchronization of the wireless terminal 20 with disparate wireless terminals associated with a common point-to-point network. In addition, state identification routines 1328 can use query table 1356 in relation to the identification of a state. The WAN 1330 type determination routines control the identification of the type of a wide area network (for example, air interface technology recognition) that shares bandwidth with the point-to-point network. In addition, WAN 1330 type determination routines can use the 1356 query table.

25 Parameter selection 1332 control sets of parameters used for point-to-point communication. For example, parameters such as a separation between tones, a cyclic prefix, a symbol time, etc. can be identified. In addition, parameter selection routines 1332 can use query table 1356.

With reference to Fig. 14, a system 1400 is illustrated that allows communication through a local area point-to-point network. For example, system 1400 may reside at least partially in a wireless terminal. It should be appreciated that the system 1400 is represented including functional blocks, which may be functional blocks that represent functions implemented by a processor, software or a combination thereof (eg, firmware). System 1400 includes a logical grouping 1402 of electrical components that can act together. For example, logical grouping 1402 may include an electrical component to identify a state associated with point-to-point communication 1404. For example, states (for example, discovery of homologous devices, control traffic, data traffic, radio messaging , ...) may be associated to the point-to-point network at predetermined times. In addition, homologous devices may be synchronized to have a common knowledge of time. Therefore, the state can be determined as a function of time. In addition, logical pool 1402 may comprise an electrical component to access a set of parameters that will be used in point-to-point communication based on state 1406. The point-to-point network can use a bandwidth that is shared with a wide area network. According to one example, the parameters that will be used for point-to-point communication can be derived (for example, depending on the state, the type of wide area network and / or parameters corresponding to the wide area network). According to an additional example, the point-to-point network parameters can be identified from a query table. In addition, the system 1400 may include a memory 1408 containing instructions for executing the functions associated with the electrical components.

Four. Five 1404 and 1406. Although shown external to memory 1408, it should be understood that one or more of the electrical components 1404 and 1406 may exist within memory 1408.

It should be understood that the embodiments described in this document can be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, middleware, microcode or any combination thereof. For a hardware implementation, the processing units can be implemented in one or more specific application integrated circuits

fifty (ASIC), digital signal processors (DSP), digital signal processing devices (DSPD), programmable logic devices (PLD), programmable field door arrays (FPGA), processors, controllers, microcontrollers, microprocessors, other units electronic devices designed to carry out the functions described in this document, or a combination thereof.

When the implementations are implemented in software, firmware, middleware or microcode, program code or

55 Code segments can be stored in a machine-readable medium, such as a storage component. A code segment can represent a procedure, a function, a subprogram, a program, a routine, a subroutine, a module, a software package, a class or any combination of instructions, data structures or program statements. A code segment can be coupled to another code segment or to a hardware circuit by transferring and / or receiving information, data, arguments, parameters or memory contents. Information, arguments, parameters, data etc., can be transferred, forwarded

or transmitted using any suitable means including memory sharing, message transfer, witness transfer, network transmission, etc.

For a software implementation, the techniques described in this document can be implemented with modules

5 (for example, procedures, functions, etc.) that perform the functions described in this document. Software codes can be stored in memory units and executed by processors. The memory unit can be implemented in the processor or be external to the processor, in which case it can be communicatively connected to the processor through various means known in the art.

What has been described above includes examples of one or more embodiments. Of course, it is not possible to describe

10 each conceivable combination of components or methodologies with the aim of describing the above-mentioned embodiments, but one skilled in the art can recognize that many other combinations and permutations of various embodiments are possible. Thus, the described embodiments are intended to cover all such alterations, modifications and variations that are within the scope of the appended claims. In addition, as regards the use of the term "includes" in the detailed description or in the claims, such

fifteen The term is intended to be inclusive in a manner similar to the term "comprising", since "comprising" is interpreted as a transition word when used in a claim.