Techniques directed to attributing information regarding communications with a modulation scheme to a different modulation scheme are described. In one example, a successful communication for a higher data rate modulation scheme may be attributed to a lower data rate modulation scheme. Such attribution may infer that the lower data rate modulation scheme would have also been successful if it had been used. In another example, an unsuccessful communication for a lower data rate modulation may be attributed to a higher data rate modulation scheme. Here, such attribution may infer that the higher data rate modulation scheme would have also been unsuccessful if it had been used.

A base station is configured to communicate with at least a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE, wherein the base station is configured to communicate with the first UE using a first modulation scheme, and with the second UE using a second, different, modulation scheme, wherein communications with the first and second UEs are arranged to be substantially orthogonal to each other. A method of allocating resources in a communication network comprising a base station operable to communicate with a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE, the method comprising using a first modulation scheme for communication with the first UE, and using a second, different, modulation scheme for communication with the second UE, wherein communications with the first and second UEs are configured to be substantially orthogonal to each other.

Techniques directed to attributing information regarding communications with a modulation scheme to a different modulation scheme are described. In one example, a successful communication for a higher data rate modulation scheme may be attributed to a lower data rate modulation scheme. Such attribution may infer that the lower data rate modulation scheme would have also been successful if it had been used. In another example, an unsuccessful communication for a lower data rate modulation may be attributed to a higher data rate modulation scheme. Here, such attribution may infer that the higher data rate modulation scheme would have also been unsuccessful if it had been used.

In one example, a device for assigning a mobile endpoint device to an access point based upon a power state is disclosed. For example, the device may include a processor deployed in a wireless network and a computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations may include detecting power states of a plurality of mobile endpoint devices that are in communication with a first access point of the network, the power states including a first power state of a first mobile endpoint device, determining a loading condition of a region of the wireless network that includes the first access point, and assigning the first mobile endpoint device to a second access point that is outside of the region when the first mobile endpoint device is in the first power state, in response to the determining of the loading condition.

A method and network entity for enabling higher order modulation (HOM) mode support for HOM capable wireless devices. The method includes determining a legacy mode power offset value for HOM mode capable wireless devices in legacy modulation mode and calculating a power headroom value for sending downlink data to the HOM mode capable wireless devices. When the power headroom value exceeds a threshold value, the HOM mode support for the HOM mode capable wireless devices is enabled using the identified legacy mode power offset value. When the power headroom value does not exceed the threshold value, and a HOM mode power offset value is available, the HOM mode power offset value being less than the legacy modulation mode power offset value, the HOM mode support for the HOM mode capable wireless devices is enabled using the HOM mode power offset value.

Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an uplink data transmission method and apparatus. The method may include: generating uplink scheduling information according to an obtained scheduling information generation rule, where the uplink scheduling information includes at least a modulation and coding scheme; and when uplink data needs to be sent, modulating and encoding the uplink data by using the modulation and coding scheme, and sending the modulated and encoded uplink data to an access device. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, uplink data sending efficiency of user equipment can be improved.

According to some embodiments, a method of decoding a transport block in a wireless network element comprises receiving a first transmission of a transport block. The transport block is modulated according to a first modulation coding scheme. The method further comprises determining a number of soft channel bits SB1 in the first transmission of the transport block based at least on a category type of a wireless device. The category type of wireless device is capable of supporting the first modulation coding scheme and a second modulation coding scheme of a different order than the first modulation scheme and both the first and second modulation schemes are associated with the same number of soft channel bits and soft buffer size. The method further comprises storing SB1 soft channel bits of the first transmission of the transport block in a soft buffer.

Techniques are described that provide for waveform selection for uplink (UL) and/or downlink (DL) wireless transmissions based on one or more factors associated with the wireless transmission, a transmitter that is to transmit the wireless transmission, or combinations thereof. UL and DL transmissions may use one of a number of different waveforms, such as single-carrier waveforms that use a single carrier for information transmission of a wireless channel, and multi-carrier waveforms that use multiple carriers at different frequencies to transmit some of the bits on each channel. Multi-carrier transmission waveforms or single-carrier waveforms may be selected for wireless transmissions based on a bandwidth allocated for the transmissions, a capability of a transmitter that is to transmit the transmissions, or combinations thereof.

A user apparatus includes a transmission/reception circuit that transmits an uplink signal and receives a downlink signal; and a control circuit that switches to transmitting, as the uplink signal, an uplink control signal or a random access channel signal within a time interval configured of a plurality of symbols, after a given interval that is provided to prevent transmission of the uplink signal and reception of the downlink signal from overlapping each other within the time interval, by using a format in which first several symbols are blanked in the time interval.

According to some embodiments, a method of performing a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) process comprises receiving, by a wireless device executing a HARQ process, a first transport block encoded according to a category type of the wireless device and a first modulation coding scheme; decoding, by the HARQ process, the first transport block using a number of soft bits N; receiving, by the wireless network element, a second transport block encoded according to the equipment type and a second modulation coding scheme different from the first modulation coding scheme; and decoding, by the HARQ process, the second transport block using the number of soft bits N.