The present invention relates generally to communication systems, and particularly to channel feedback schemes.
In some communication systems, a mobile communication terminal receives downlink signals from a base station over a communication channel, and sends feedback indicative of the communication channel to the base station. The base station configures subsequent transmissions based on the feedback. Channel feedback of this sort is used, for example, in Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) systems specified by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). These systems are also referred to as Long Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE Advanced (LTE-A).
Channel feedback schemes for LTE and LTE-A systems are discussed, for example, in 3GPP Technical Specification Group Radio Access Network Working Group 1 (TSG-RAN WG1) document R1-105032, entitled “Way Forward on Enhancement for Rel.10 DL MIMO,” Madrid, Spain, Aug. 23-27, 2010; in 3GPP TSG-RAN WG1 document R1-104477, entitled “Higher CSI Feedback Accuracy Proposals for 4/8Tx Rel.10 DL MIMO,” Madrid, Spain, Aug. 23-27, 2010; in 3GPP TSG-RAN WG1 document R1-104474, entitled “Views and Simulation Results on 4Tx Codebook Enhancements,” Madrid, Spain, Aug. 23-27, 2010; and in 3GPP TSG-RAN WG1 document R1-104398, entitled “Further Analysis of Companion Feedback Performance and Feedback Signaling Overhead Reduction,” Madrid, Spain, Aug. 23-27, 2010, which are all incorporated herein by reference.
Other channel feedback schemes are addressed in 3GPP TSG-RAN WG1 document R1-105801, entitled “Way Forward on CQI/PMI Reporting Enhancement on PUSCH 3-1 for 2, 4 and 8 TX,” Xian, China, Oct. 11-15, 2010; in 3GPP TSG-RAN WG1 document R1-105189, entitled “CQI Enhancement for 4Tx,” Xian, China, Oct. 11-15, 2010; in 3GPP TSG-RAN WG1 document R1-105412, entitled “Enhancing MU-MIMO CQI,” Xian, China, Oct. 11-15, 2010; and in 3GPP TSG-RAN WG1 document R1-105656, entitled “Further discussion on CQI/PMI enhancement,” Xian, China, Oct. 11-15, 2010, which are incorporated herein by reference.
The description above is presented as a general overview of related art in this field and should not be construed as an admission that any of the information it contains constitutes prior art against the present patent application.
An embodiment that is described herein provides a method including receiving in a mobile communication terminal over a communication channel a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) signal. The MIMO signal includes at least a transmission addressed to the terminal. A Multi-User Signal to Noise Ratio (MU-SNR) is estimated in the terminal based on the received signal. The MU-SNR is indicative of a power ratio between the transmission addressed to the terminal and remaining components of the signal, which are assumed to include one or more transmissions addressed to one or more other terminals. Feedback, which is indicative of the communication channel and is based on the MU-SNR, is transmitted from the terminal.
In some embodiments, estimating the MU-SNR includes computing the MU-SNR under an assumption that the transmissions addressed to the other terminals are precoded with respective precoding vectors that are orthogonal to a precoding vector requested by the terminal for precoding the transmission addressed to the terminal.
In an example embodiment, computing the MU-SNR includes averaging the MU-SNR over multiple possible choices of the orthogonal precoding vectors. In a disclosed embodiment, the MIMO signal is transmitted from a base station using NT transmit antennas, and computing the MU-SNR includes calculating the MU-SNR over NT−1 possible choices of the orthogonal precoding vectors. In another embodiment, computing the MU-SNR includes assigning to the transmissions addressed to the other terminals respective power levels, at least two of which being different from one another.
In some embodiments, the method includes estimating a Single-User Signal to Noise Ratio (SU-SNR), which is computed under an assumption that the signal is addressed only to the terminal, and transmitting the feedback includes transmitting first feedback based on the SU-SNR and second feedback based on the MU-SNR. In an embodiment, transmitting the first and second feedback includes sending one of the first and second feedback in a format that is differentially encoded relative to the other of the first and second feedback. In another embodiment, transmitting the first and second feedback includes sending the first and second feedback encoded independently of one another. In yet another embodiment, transmitting the first and second feedback includes sending the first feedback at a first update rate, and sending the second feedback at a second update rate, different from the first update rate.
In an embodiment, the communication feedback includes at least one feedback type selected from a group of types consisting of a Rank-1 Channel Quality Indication (CQI) and a Rank-2 CQI.
There is additionally provided, in accordance with an embodiment that is described herein, apparatus including a receiver, a processor and a transmitter. The receiver is configured to receive over a communication channel a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) signal that includes at least a transmission addressed to the receiver The processor is configured to estimate, based on the received signal, a Multi-User Signal to Noise Ratio (MU-SNR), which is indicative of a power ratio between the transmission addressed to the receiver and remaining components of the signal, which are assumed to include one or more transmissions addressed to one or more other receivers, and to calculate feedback that is indicative of the communication channel and is based on the MU-SNR. The transmitter is configured to transmit the feedback.
In some embodiments, a mobile communication terminal includes the disclosed apparatus. In some embodiments, a chipset for processing signals in a mobile communication terminal includes the disclosed apparatus.
The present disclosure will be more fully understood from the following detailed description of the embodiments thereof, taken together with the drawings in which:
Embodiments that are described herein provide improved channel feedback schemes for use in mobile wireless communication networks. Although the embodiments described herein refer mainly to LTE and LTE-A, the disclosed techniques are applicable to any other suitable type of communication protocol or standard.
In some embodiments, a base station supports both a Single-User Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (SU-MIMO) mode and a Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO) mode. In the SU-MIMO mode, the base station transmits only to a single terminal on a given time-frequency resource, using multiple transmit antennas. In the MU-MIMO mode, the base station transmits to multiple terminals simultaneously on the same time-frequency resource via the multiple transmit antennas. In the MU-MIMO mode, simultaneous transmissions to different terminals are typically precoded with different precoding vectors, i.e., different sets of weights that are applied to the transmit antennas and steer the transmission beams in the desired directions.
In these embodiments, each terminal sends to the base station feedback that is indicative of the communication channel. The feedback may comprise, for example, a Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR), a Channel Quality Indication (CQI) indicative of the preferred Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) to be used in subsequent transmissions, or a Precoding Matrix Indication (PMI) indicative of the preferred precoding matrix to be used for subsequent transmissions. The base station configures its subsequent transmissions based on the feedback received from the terminals.
The terminal calculates the feedback by processing the downlink signal it receives from the base station. Typically, however, the terminal has no information as to whether the base station is currently operating in the SU-MIMO mode or in the MU-MIMO mode. In other words, the terminal has no information whether the received downlink signal contains only a single transmission addressed to the terminal, or whether the signal contains additional simultaneous transmissions addressed to other terminals.
The base station possesses this information, but on the other hand does not have access to the downlink signal as it is received and measured by the terminal. Thus, neither the terminal alone nor the base station alone has the complete information for calculating the optimal channel feedback that would enable the base station to optimally configure its transmissions.
It is possible in principle for the terminal to calculate the channel feedback regardless of whether the base station uses SU-MIMO or MU-MIMO, for example by always assuming SU-MIMO. This solution, however, may cause the base station to mis-configure its subsequent transmissions and lead to severe performance degradation.
The methods and systems described herein provide an effective solution to this problem. In some embodiments, the terminal uses the downlink signal to calculate two types of SNR: A Single-User SNR (SU-SNR) and a Multi-User SNR (MU-SNR). The SU-SNR is calculated under the assumption that the downlink signal contains only a single transmission addressed to the terminal. The MU-SNR, on the other hand, is calculated under the assumption that the downlink signal contains one or more additional transmissions addressed to one or more other terminals, in addition to the transmission addressed to the terminal.
The terminal typically calculates two types of feedback based on the two types of SNR corresponding to SU and MU transmission, and sends the two types of feedback to the base station. In some embodiments one feedback type is encoded differentially relative to the other feedback type, in order to reduce signaling overhead. The base station configures its subsequent transmissions based on the SU and/or MU feedback received from the terminals.
In various embodiments, the terminal calculates the MU-SNR in different ways. In one embodiment, the terminal assumes that the base station precodes transmissions to other terminals using precoding vectors that are orthogonal to one another and to the precoding vector requested by the terminal for precoding its own transmission. In an embodiment, the terminal calculates the MU-SNR under this assumption, for example by averaging the SNR over multiple possible choices of orthogonal precoding vectors for the other transmissions.
When using the disclosed techniques, the terminal provides the base station with enhanced channel feedback that is applicable to both single-user and multi-user scenarios. Based on such feedback, the base station is able to optimize its subsequent transmissions, and therefore improve downlink throughput and quality and reduce interference.
In the embodiments described herein, system 20 operates in accordance with the LTE-A specifications. Alternatively, however, system 20 may operate in accordance with any other suitable communication protocol, such as LTE or any communication protocol that uses MU-MIMO and in which full channel knowledge is not available. The example of
BS 28 comprises a BS processor 32 that manages the various BS communication functions, a BS transceiver (TRX) 36 that carries out transmission and reception, and an antenna array 40 via which Radio Frequency (RF) signals are transmitted and received. In one embodiment, antenna array 40 comprises four or eight transmit antennas, and BS 28 uses these antennas for transmitting downlink MIMO signals.
In an embodiment, BS 28 supports both SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO transmission modes. Thus, at a given time, the downlink MIMO signal may comprise only a single transmission addressed to UE 24. At a different time, the downlink signal may comprise one or more additional transmissions, which are addressed to one or more other UEs (not shown in the figure) and are transmitted on the same time-frequency resource as the transmission to UE 24. BS 28 is able to alternate between the SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO modes as appropriate.
In the embodiment seen in
Feedback calculation unit 64 calculates channel feedback based on the SU-SNR and the MU-SNR provided by unit 60. In a typical embodiment, the channel feedback calculated by unit 64 comprises a preferred MCS to be used in SU transmission (this MCS is denoted SU CQI), and a preferred MCS to be used in MU transmission (this MCS is denoted MU CQI).
Feedback calculation unit 64 provides the channel feedback to uplink transmitter 52, which transmits the feedback to BS 28. In some embodiments, the feedback based on the SU SNR is transmitted at a certain update rate, and the feedback based on the MU SNR is transmitted at a different update rate. In alternative embodiments, both types of feedback are transmitted at the same update rate.
BS processor 32 uses the feedback based on the SU-SNR and/or the feedback based on the MU-SNR to configure subsequent transmissions. In an example embodiment, the BS processor uses the feedback to assign precoding vectors, Modulation and Coding Schemes (MCS) and/or power levels to the various transmissions.
The UE configuration seen in
In various embodiments, some or all of the elements of UE 24, including receiver 48, transmitter and processing circuitry 56, are implemented in hardware, such as using one or more Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFICs), Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) or Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs). In alternative embodiments, certain UE elements are implemented in software, or using a combination of hardware and software elements. In some embodiments, some or all of the elements of UE 24, including receiver 48, transmitter 52 and processing circuitry 56, are implemented in a signal processing chip-set for use in mobile communication terminals.
In some embodiments, certain UE elements, such as certain elements of processing circuitry 56, are implemented in a programmable processor, which is programmed in software to carry out the functions described herein. The software may be downloaded to the processor in electronic form, over a network, for example, or it may, alternatively or additionally, be provided and/or stored on non-transitory tangible media, such as magnetic, optical, or electronic memory.
SNR calculation unit 60 calculates the SU-SNR of the received downlink signal, at a SU-SNR calculation operation 74. The SU-SNR is calculated under the assumption that the downlink signal contains only a single transmission that is addressed to UE 24.
SNR calculation unit 60 calculates the MU-SNR of the received downlink signal, at a MU-SNR calculation operation 78. The MU-SNR is calculated under the assumption that the downlink signal contains, in addition to the transmission addressed to UE 24, at least one other transmission to at least one other UE. Several example techniques for calculating the MU-SNR are described in detail further below.
Feedback calculation unit 64 calculates and formats channel feedback based on the SU-SNR, and channel feedback based on the MU-SNR, at a feedback calculation operation 82. Several example techniques for formatting the feedback, e.g., using differential encoding, are described further below. Uplink TX 52 transmits the two types of channel feedback to BS 28, at an uplink transmission operation 90. BS processor 32 in BS 28 configures subsequent downlink transmissions of the BS based on the SU-SNR related feedback and/or the MU-SNR related feedback, at a BS configuration operation 90.
In various embodiments, SNR calculation unit 60 calculates the MU-SNR in different ways. In one embodiment, unit 60 calculates the MU-SNR as:
wherein H denotes the communication channel response matrix, v denotes the SU PMI requested by the UE, P denotes the received signal power, and NT denotes the number of base station transmit antennas (the number of transmit antennas in array 40).
In another embodiment, unit 60 calculates the MU-SNR by averaging over possible choices of precoding vectors assigned by the base station for other transmissions to other UEs. Typically, these precoding vectors are assumed orthogonal to one another and to the preferred precoding vector (PMI) requested by the UE:
wherein ui denotes orthogonal precoding vectors that are possibly assigned by the base station to the transmissions to other UEs. In the example of Equation 2, averaging is carried out in the linear domain, i.e., arithmetic mean. In an alternative embodiment, averaging is performed logarithmically in dB, i.e., geometric mean.
In an embodiment, the orthogonal precoding vectors ui comprise NT−1 algebraic basis vectors. When the base station and UEs select the precoding vectors from a mutually-agreed codebook, vectors ui may comprise (part or all of) the subset of vectors in the codebook that are orthogonal to the preferred precoding vector (PMI) requested by the UE. In 3GPP release 8 HHCB codebook, for example, eight code vectors have five orthogonal vectors each. The remaining eight code vectors have three orthogonal vectors each. In an embodiment, SNR averaging is carried out, for a given PMI, over the code vectors in the codebook that are orthogonal to this PMI.
The MU-SNR definitions given above are receiver-independent and applicable, for example, to Maximum Ratio Combining (MRC) receivers. For Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) receivers, in an embodiment, unit 60 optimizes the MU-SNR by:
wherein
v′ denotes the UE recommended precoding vector (i.e., the precoding codebook entry corresponding to the selected PMI), ui denotes the ith precoding vector that is orthogonal to v′, and KN denotes the noise covariance matrix for the SU case that captures inter-cell interference and thermal noise.
As explained above, Feedback calculation unit 64 formats and reports feedback based on the SU-SNR, and feedback based on the MU-SNR, to base station 28. In some embodiments, unit 64 formats or encodes the two types of feedback independently of one another. In other embodiments, unit 64 encodes one of the two types of feedback (the feedback SU-SNR based feedback or the MU-SNR based feedback) differentially relative to the other type of feedback.
In an example embodiment, Unit 64 encodes the SU-SNR using four bits, and the MU-SNR using two bits differentially relative to the SU-SNR. In Various differential quantization levels may be used. Table 1 below gives three possible differential encoding schemes. In Table 1, the SU-SNR is denoted x and the MU-SNR is denoted y:
In addition, the reported MU MCS is verified to lie between zero and fifteen. In alternative embodiments, the differential quantization is defined depending on the UE geometry, e.g., based on the distance between the UE and the base station. In an example embodiment, higher-geometry UEs (e.g., UEs close to the base station) are assigned higher offsets in the differential encoding, while lower-geometry UEs (e.g., UEs far from the base station) are assigned lower offsets.
In some embodiments, the MU CQI is reported per sub-band. (MU CQI denotes the index of the MCS to be used at a certain MU-SNR. The terms MU CQI and MU-SNR are sometimes used interchangeably herein.) In other embodiments the MU CQI comprises a wideband CQI that is reported for the entire spectrum allocation. In an embodiment, when using wideband MU CQI, the MU CQI is encoded differentially relative to the wideband SU CQI. The MU CQI per sub-band may be given by WB SU CQI+WB MU CQI Differential+SB SU CQI Differential. Alternatively, the MU CQI per sub-band may be given by WB SU CQI+WB MU CQI Differential. Further alternatively, unit 64 may provide a wideband PMI and CQI that are optimized for MU-MIMO transmission. Example simulation results for the above-described feedback configurations are provided in U.S. Provisional Patent Application 61/390,423, cited above.
In some embodiments, the SU-SNR based feedback from the UE corresponds to a certain number of spatial layers (also referred to as spatial streams) to be sent from the base station to the UE. This number of spatial layers is referred to as rank. In many practical scenarios, the MU performance gain is mainly due to rank 1 MU transmission per UE, i.e., transmission of a single spatial layer to each UE. Thus, in some embodiments, unit 64 calculates and provides MU CQI corresponding to rank 1, regardless of the rank used for SU CQI or SU PMI. In an embodiment, a rank 1 PMI is also fed back. The rank 1 PMI can be derived from the precoding vectors of the higher rank SU PMI. In an alternative embodiment, unit 64 calculates and provides MU CQI corresponding to rank 2, regardless of the rank used for SU CQI or SU PMI. In another embodiment, unit 64 calculates and provides MU CQI corresponding to both rank 1 and rank 2.
Let v0 denote the precoding vectors corresponding to SU PMI. As explained above, the MU-SNR definition typically considers the effects of potential interference. In one embodiment, this interference is accounted for by assuming that the base station transmits interference in all directions that are orthogonal to the PMI requested by the UE. Let {vi}i=1N
In some embodiments, when calculating the MU-SNR, unit 60 assumes a certain ratio between the downlink signal power of the transmission addressed to UE and the total interference power. This ratio is denoted r. In one embodiment, the interference power is split equally among the transmissions addressed to other UEs. In such en embodiment, and assuming NT−1 transmissions to the other UEs, the relative allocation of signal power to UE 24 and to the other UEs is [r, (1−r)/(NT−1), . . . , (1−r)/(NT−1)]. For the case of four base station transmit antennas, for example, the relative power allocation is [r, (1−r)/3, (1−r)/3, (1−r)/3]. Thus, the power of the desired signal (addressed to UE 24) is rP, while the power for each orthogonal direction (precoding vector) is (1−r)P(NT−1).
Unit 60 may choose any suitable value of r, such as r=0.5, r=⅓, r=1/NT or any other suitable value. In an alternative embodiment, the relative allocation of signal power to UE 24 and to the other UEs is generalized as [d(0) . . . d(NT−1)], such that the sum of elements is unity. In this embodiment, r=d(0)/(d1+ . . . +d(NT−1)). Further alternatively, unit 60 may assign any other suitable power levels to the interfering layers (i.e., to the transmissions addressed to other UEs). In an example embodiment, at least two of these transmissions are assigned unequal power levels.
The total effective noise covariance matrix in the MU case, including possible intra-cell inter-layer interference, can be written as KTotal=KN+K1, wherein K1 captures the potential MU interference:
wherein KN denotes the original noise covariance matrix in the SU case. (More generally, the two NT−1 terms in Equation 4 can be replaced with the number of interfering precoding vectors, i.e., with |S|, wherein S denotes the set of interfering precoding vectors. This format is independent of the actual precoding vectors in S.)
For the generalized allocation of signal power described above we can write:
The MU-SNR for the SU PMI can be most generally written as MU-SNR(v0)=f(v0,H,P,KTotal,r). In one embodiment, the MU-SNR is defined as:
wherein numRX denotes the number of UE receive antennas.
For a MMSE receiver we can write:
MU SNR=(v′0H′KTotal−1Hv0)rP Equation 7:
For a MRC receiver we can write:
Since the PMI is already available, the additional complexity of the MU-SNR calculation is on the order of 1/16th of the SU-SNR calculation. This complexity can be further reduced by exploiting intermediate results from the SU-SNR calculation, e.g., using the previously-calculated Hv0.
For r=0.5, the covariance matrix is given by:
and the MU-SNR then becomes MU-SNR(v0)=f(v0, H, P, KTotal, r=0.5).
For r=1/NT, the covariance matrix is given by:
and the MU-SNR becomes MU-SNR (v0)=f(v0, H, P, KTotal, r=1/NT).
Example simulation results of the above-described feedback schemes are given in U.S. Provisional Patent Application 61/411,845, cited above. In some embodiments, base station 28 uses the reported MU-CQI in its scheduling process. In an embodiment, the base station estimates the MU-SNR from the reported MCS, while correcting for the actual number of scheduled spatial layers. For example, when pairing two UEs, the base station estimates the SNR by SNR=SNR(MU CQI)/2r, wherein SNR(MU CQI) denotes the SNR that corresponds to the reported MU CQI.
In some embodiments, Equation 4 above can be replaced by an explicit expression of a set of interfering precoding vectors that are mutually-orthogonal and also orthogonal to the SU precoding vector requested by the UE (SU PMI). For example, the SU rank 1 precoding vector in the 8TX codebook is of the form:
wherein v(θ)=[1 exp(jθ) exp(j2θ) exp(j3θ)]T.
The set of seven mutually-orthogonal vectors that are orthogonal to u is given by:
Example actual indices for the interfering precoding vectors, per the notation of the 8TX codebook defined in the 3GPP specifications, are given further below.
In Equation 4 above, the signal power allocation assumed by the UE for the various layers depends on r. In an embodiment, we assume r=0.5. Under this assumption, the power allocation for eight layers is [P/2,P/14,P/14,P/14,P/14,P/14,P/14,P/14], where the first term corresponds to the layer addressed to the UE and the other terms correspond to the interfering layers.
In some embodiments, simpler sets of interfering precoding vectors are defined, for example for UE testing purposes. An example test would assume that the base station transmits using the exact configuration that the UE assumed while calculating the CQI. In such a case, the MU CQI defined in Equations 4, 11 and 12 would imply that the test equipment transmits to seven other virtual UEs, using the seven precoding vectors in the set S of Equation 12. However, LTE Release 10 supports transmission to up to four spatially-multiplexed UEs. It is therefore desirable to modify the MU CQI definition so that the test equipment transmission is compatible with the assumptions made by the UE in the MU CQI calculation.
In an example modified definition of the MU CQI, the orthonormal basis is replaced by reduced sets of four orthogonal PMIs. Two possible examples of reduced sets are given by:
For these reduced sets, the power allocation is [P/2,P/6,P/6]. Example actual indices for the interfering precoding vectors in these sets, per the notation of the 8TX codebook defined in the 3GPP specifications, are given below.
In accordance with the 8TX codebook specified in the 3GPP specifications, the set S of precoding vectors in Equation 12 can be expressed as a set of interfering PMIs in the codebook. Let (i0,j0) denote the index of the signal PMI (e.g., from the SU CQI/PMI) corresponding to the W1 and W2 codebook, respectively. Let j0=4d0+p0, where d0 denotes the DFT selection index ranging from 0 to 3 and p0 denotes the phase selection index ranging from 0 to 3. Indices i0 and j0 range from 0 to 15. The indices of the seven interfering PMIs can then be written as:
For the three-layer MU CQI in the set S1 of Equation 13, example interfering PMI indices are given by:
For the three-layer MU CQI in the set S2 of Equation 14, example interfering PMI indices are given by:
In alternative embodiments, any subset of size k can be deduced from the set given in Equation 15 and optimized. The power allocation in such an embodiment is [P/2,P/(2k), . . . , P/(2k)]. The power allocation can also be generalized as [Pr,(1−r)P/k, . . . , (1−r)P/k].
Note also that that the above-described sets of indices may not be unique due to the overlap in the W1 codebook. It can be shown that by modifying the values of i0 and d0, it is possible to obtain the index of another PMI that gives the same precoding vector. For example, if d0>1, then the precoding vector corresponding to (i0+1) mod 16, d0−2, p0 is the same as the precoding vector represented by i0, d0, p0. If d0<2, then the precoding vector corresponding to (i0−1) mod 16, (d0+2), p0 is the same as that of i0, d0, p0.
In an alternative embodiment, the following table gives the indices of the interfering PMIs that the UE should account for in calculating the MU SNR. The indices are given per each possible value of the SU-MIMO rank 1 PMI:
In this embodiment, the power allocation for the signal and interfering layers is [rP,(1−r)P,(1−r)P,(1−r)P]. In alternative embodiments, the interfering PMIs can be reduced to subsets of the sets given in Table 2. For example, each PMI can have two interfering PMIs. In these embodiments, the power allocation can be [P/3,P/3,P/3], or alternatively [P/2,P/4,P/4], or more generally [rP,(1−r)P/2,(1−r)P/2]. Further alternatively, Table 2 can be reduced to one interfering PMI per PMI. In such an embodiment, the power allocation is typically [P/2,P/2].
It is noted that the embodiments described above are cited by way of example, and that the present invention is not limited to what has been particularly shown and described hereinabove. Rather, the scope of the present invention includes both combinations and sub-combinations of the various features described hereinabove, as well as variations and modifications thereof which would occur to persons skilled in the art upon reading the foregoing description and which are not disclosed in the prior art. Documents incorporated by reference in the present patent application are to be considered an integral part of the application except that to the extent any terms are defined in these incorporated documents in a manner that conflicts with the definitions made explicitly or implicitly in the present specification, only the definitions in the present specification should be considered.
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application 61/390,423, filed Oct. 6, 2010, U.S. Provisional Patent Application 61/393,797, filed Oct. 15, 2010, and U.S. Provisional Patent Application 61/411,845, filed Nov. 9, 2010, whose disclosures are incorporated herein by reference.
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