Method and apparatus for packet wireless telecommunications

1. A method for transmitting data via a packet wireless telecommunications network, including the steps of:

applying at a user terminal a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) scheme to control data and to voice traffic data to encode the control data and voice traffic data to provide CDMA transmissions;

autonomously transmitting the encoded data in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) frame structure which includes a cyclic prefix (CP);

providing at the user terminal Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) transmissions of data packets having a larger payload than the CDMA encoded packets; and

time multiplexing the CDMA and SC-FDMA transmissions at the user terminal.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 and including block repetition followed by scrambling by Constant-Amplitude Zero Auto-Correlation (CAZAC) sequence to encode the data as a CDMA scheme.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2 and wherein users are assigned different orthogonal sequences.

4. The method as claimed in claim 2 and wherein users are assigned different pseudo-random sequences with low correlation property.

5. The method as claimed in claim 2 and wherein users with similar radio propagation conditions are placed in a group and assigned orthogonal CAZAC sequences, and different groups are assigned different basic CAZAC sequences.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1 and wherein the CAZAC CDMA modulated data is applied to a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) for spreading across sub-carriers.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6 and wherein the CP is inserted following the DFT.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the OFDM frame structure is used in Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA).

9. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the transmission is in the uplink between a user terminal and a base station.

10. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the method is implemented by a network in accordance with UMTS Long Term Evolution (LTE).

11. The method as claimed in claim 1 and wherein the traffic data is VoIP data.

12. The method as claimed in claim 1 and wherein the control data is low bit-rate data including control signals.

13. The method as claimed in claim 1 and wherein Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) process ID is used to identify in which mode of transmission data is to be sent.

14. A wireless telecommunications network for transmitting data packets, comprising: a base station; and including a transmitter having a first transmission path including an encoder for encoding control data and voice traffic data using a CDMA scheme and arranged to autonomously transmit the encoded data in an OFDM frame structure which includes a Cyclic Prefix (CP) and the transmitter having a second transmission path for Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) transmissions of data packets having a larger payload than the CDMA encoded packets; and the transmitter comprising a multiplexer for time multiplexing the CDMA transmissions and SC-FDMA transmissions.

15. The network as claimed in claim 14 and wherein the encoder performs block repetition followed by scrambling by CAZAC sequence to encode the data as a CDMA scheme.

16. The network as claimed in claim 14 and wherein the data is transmitted in the uplink.

17. The network as claimed in claim 14 and wherein the network is implemented in accordance with LTE standards.

18. A transmitter for a wireless telecommunication arrangement, comprising a first transmission path including an encoder for encoding control data and voice traffic data using a CDMA scheme and being arranged to autonomously transmit the encoded data in an OFDM frame structure which includes a Cyclic Prefix (CP) and a second transmission path for Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) transmissions of data packets having a larger payload than the CDMA encoded packets; and the transmitter comprising a multiplexer for time multiplexing the CDMA transmissions and SC-FDMA transmissions.

19. The transmitter as claimed in claim 18 and wherein the encoder performs block repetition followed by scrambling by CAZAC sequence to encode the data as a CDMA scheme.

20. The transmitter as claimed in claim 18 and comprising a multiplexer for time multiplexing CDMA transmissions with SC-FDMA transmissions in the uplink.

21. A receiver for a wireless telecommunication arrangement, comprising a first receiver path that includes a receiver processor for decoding received transmissions of control data and voice traffic data that has been encoded using a CDMA scheme autonomously transmitted in an OFDM frame structure which includes a Cyclic Prefix (CP) and a second receiver path for decoding Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) transmissions of data packets having a larger payload than the CDMA encoded packets; and a demultiplexer for time demultiplexing the received CDMA transmissions and the received SC-FDMA transmissions.

22. The receiver of claim 21 and comprising a successive interference cancellation (SIC) receiver processor.

23. The receiver of claim 21 and comprising a decoder for decoding SC-FDMA transmissions time multiplexed with CDMA transmissions.