Patent ID: 8526391

Claim:
A method of improving receiver sensitivity, for use in a network-based wireless location system (WLS) associated with a wireless communications network (WCN) with a single carrier frequency-division multiple access (SC-FDMA)-based uplink, wherein said WCN uses dynamic scheduling of physical resources in both a frequency domain and a time domain, wherein both downlink and uplink radio resources are under control of an eNodeB (eNB), comprising: using a semi-persistent-scheduling (SPS) function to enable a location measuring unit (LMU) to integrate uplink signal measurements over longer periods of time; wherein the eNB uses the SPS function to set a resource block (RB) allocation pattern for a user equipmemt device (UE) of interest; wherein the RB allocation pattern causes the UE of interest to transmit uplink signals in defined RBs of a plurality of time cycles; and wherein each RB includes a plurality of sub-carriers spanning a frequency band and time slot in which the UE of interest is permitted to transmit uplink signals.