Patent ID: 8089855
Filing Date: 2012-01-03
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: controller to ascertain time slots used for a first radio technology among at least two radio technologies utilized by a wireless communication system, to generate overhead information for a plurality of streams to be sent in the time slots used for the first radio technology, and to append an indicator to each stream of the plurality of streams, wherein a control channel carries the overhead information, wherein the indicator is not included in the overhead information that is carried via the control channel, wherein the indicator for a particular stream is sent in a time slot that includes data for that stream, wherein the indicator for a particular stream indicates whether there is any change in the overhead information for the stream in an upcoming time interval, and wherein the overhead information for a particular stream indicates at least one time slot allocated to the stream, a transport block format that is used for the stream, and an outer code rate used for the stream; and a processor to process the overhead information for the plurality of streams for transmission; wherein the first radio technology is Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), and wherein the at least two radio technologies comprise OFDM and Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA).