Coverage boosting transmission method for LTE technology

1. A wireless communication device for boosting coverage of wireless signals, comprising:

a processor arranged to configure resource blocks for a sub-frame for transmitting data in a communication session, wherein the sub-frame includes at least one slot formed by a matrix of sub-carriers in a frequency domain and symbols in a time domain; and

a transceiver, coupled to the processor, the transceiver being arranged to establish communication with entities in a network, the transceiver being further arranged to, under direction of the processor, map modulated symbols to at least a partial resource block to form a coverage boosting resource unit, the coverage boosting resource unit spreading at least one data bit, each data bit that is spread being spread over a plurality of resource elements or a plurality of resource blocks of the at least the partial resource block,

wherein the map modulated symbols to the at least partial resource block to form the coverage boosting resource unit further includes mapping modulated symbols in a lean carrier that includes a minimized control channel and reference signal overhead to increase resource utilization and to reduce interference to increase spectral efficiency and reduce energy consumption.

2. The wireless communication device of claim 1 , wherein the at least partial resource block comprises one resource block in the at least one slot.

3. The wireless communication device of claim 1 , wherein the at least partial resource block comprises a first resource block in a first of the at least one slot and a second resource block in a second of the at least one slot.

4. The wireless communication device of claim 1 , wherein the at least partial resource block comprises a first resource block in a first of the at least one slot and a second resource block in the first of the at least one slot.

5. The wireless communication device of claim 1 , wherein the at least partial resource block comprises a plurality of first resource blocks in a first of the at least one slot and a plurality of second resource blocks in a second of the at least one slot.

6. The wireless communication device of claim 1 , wherein the transceiver comprises:

a code block arranged to receive data and to produce bits of encoded data,

a modulator arranged to process the encoded data and to generate modulated symbols, and

a coverage boosting resource unit mapper arranged to receive the modulated symbols and to map the modulated symbols to sub-carriers and symbols in the at least the partial resource block.

7. The wireless communication device of claim 1 , wherein the at least partial resource block includes N sc sub-carriers, each subcarrier comprising N symb symbols.

8. The wireless communication device of claim 1 , wherein the coverage boosting resource unit comprises narrow bandwidth device regions (NBDRs) arranged to allow operation of narrow bandwidth machine type communication (MTC) terminals in a wide bandwidth system.

9. The wireless communication device of claim 1 , wherein the at least partial resource block comprises a plurality of coverage boosting resource units spanning N SF sub-frames over N F frames to form one allocation for transmission of one information message.

10. The wireless communication device of claim 1 , wherein the coverage boosting resource unit further includes a preconfigured reference signal arranged to perform channel estimation and signal synchronization tasks.

11. A method for boosting coverage of wireless signals, comprising:

configuring, by a processor, resource blocks for a sub-frame for transmitting data in a communication session, wherein the sub-frame includes at least one slot formed by a matrix of sub-carriers in a frequency domain and symbols in a time domain; and

mapping, by a transceiver under direction of the processor, modulated symbols to at least a partial resource block to form a coverage boosting resource unit, the coverage boosting resource unit spreading at least one data bit over the at least the partial resource block,

wherein the mapping modulated symbols to the at least partial resource block to form the coverage boosting resource unit further includes mapping modulated symbols in a lean carrier that includes a minimized control channel and reference signal overhead to increase resource utilization and to reduce interference to increase spectral efficiency and reduce energy consumption.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the mapping modulated symbols to at least the partial resource block comprises mapping modulated symbols to one resource block in the at least one slot.

13. The method of claim 11 , wherein the mapping modulated symbols to at least the partial resource block comprises mapping modulated symbols to a first resource block in a first of the at least one slot and a second resource block in a second of the at least one slot.

14. The method of claim 11 , wherein the mapping modulated symbols to at least the partial resource block comprises mapping modulated symbols to a first resource block in a first of the at least one slot and a second resource block in the first of the at least one slot.

15. The method of claim 11 , wherein the mapping modulated symbols to at least the partial resource block comprises mapping modulated symbols to a plurality of first resource blocks in a first of the at least one slot and a plurality of second resource blocks in a second of the at least one slot.

16. The method of claim 11 , wherein the mapping modulated symbols further comprises:

receiving data at a code block arranged to produce bits of encoded data,

receiving the encoded data at a modulator arranged to modulate the encoded data to generate modulated symbols, and

mapping, by a coverage boosting resource unit mapper, the modulated symbols to sub-carriers and symbols in the at least the partial resource block,

wherein modulating the encoded data comprises modulating the encoded data using code division multiple access.

17. The method of claim 11 , wherein the mapping modulated symbols to the at least partial resource block further comprises mapping the modulated symbols to N sc sub-carriers, each subcarrier comprising N symb symbols.

18. The method of claim 11 , wherein the mapping modulated symbols to the at least partial resource block to form the coverage boosting resource unit further includes forming narrow bandwidth device regions (NBDRs) to allow operation of narrow bandwidth machine type communication (MTC) terminals in a wide bandwidth system.

19. The method of claim 11 , wherein the mapping the modulated symbols to the at least partial resource block to form the coverage boosting resource unit comprises mapping the modulated symbols to the at least partial resource block to form a plurality of coverage boosting resource units spanning N SF sub-frames over N F frames to form one allocation for transmission of one information message.

20. The method of claim 11 , wherein the mapping modulated symbols to the at least partial resource block to form the coverage boosting resource unit further includes forming a preconfigured reference signal arranged to perform channel estimation and signal synchronization tasks.

21. At least one non-transitory machine readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by the machine, cause the machine to perform operations for boosting coverage of wireless signals, the operations comprising:

configuring, by a processor, resource blocks for a sub-frame for transmitting data in a communication session, wherein the sub-frame includes at least one slot formed by a matrix of sub-carriers in a frequency domain and symbols in a time domain; and

mapping, by a transceiver under direction of the processor, modulated symbols to at least a partial resource block to form a coverage boosting resource unit, the coverage boosting resource unit spreading at least one data bit over the at least the partial resource block,

wherein the mapping modulated symbols to at least the partial resource block comprises selecting at least one from a group consisting of:

mapping modulated symbols to one resource block in the at least one slot; and

mapping modulated symbols to a first resource block in a first of the at least one slot and a second resource block in a second of the at least one slot; and

mapping modulated symbols to a first resource block in a first of the at least one slot and a second resource block in the first of the at least one slot; and

mapping modulated symbols to a plurality of first resource blocks in a first of the at least one slot and a plurality of second resource blocks in a second of the at least one slot.

22. The at least one non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 21 , wherein the mapping modulated symbols further comprises:

receiving data at a code block arranged to produce bits of encoded data,

receiving the encoded data at a modulator arranged to modulate the encoded data to generate modulated symbols, and

mapping, by a coverage boosting resource unit mapper, the modulated symbols to sub carriers and symbols in the at least the partial resource block.

23. At least one non-transitory machine readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by the machine, cause the machine to perform operations for boosting coverage of wireless signals, the operations comprising:

configuring, by a processor, resource blocks for a sub-frame for transmitting data in a communication session, wherein the sub-frame includes at least one slot formed by a matrix of sub-carriers in a frequency domain and symbols in a time domain; and

mapping, by a transceiver under direction of the processor, modulated symbols to at least a partial resource block to form a coverage boosting resource unit, the coverage boosting resource unit spreading at least one data bit over the at least the partial resource block, wherein the mapping modulated symbols to at least the partial resource block comprises selecting at least one from a group consisting of:

mapping the modulated symbols to N sc sub-carriers, each subcarrier comprising N symb symbols;

forming narrow bandwidth device regions (NBDRs) in the at least partial resource block to allow operation of narrow bandwidth machine type communication (MTC) terminals in a wide bandwidth system;

mapping the modulated symbols to the at least partial resource block to form a plurality of coverage boosting resource units spanning N SF sub-frames over N F frames to form one allocation for transmission of one information message;

including a preconfigured reference signal arranged to perform channel estimation and signal synchronization tasks; and

mapping modulated symbols in a lean carrier that includes a minimized control channel and reference signal overhead to increase resource utilization and to reduce interference to increase spectral efficiency and reduce energy consumption.