Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Channel sounding techniques
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Application No.: US15409261Application Date: 2017-01-18
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Publication No.: US10708086B2Publication Date: 2020-07-07
- Inventor: Malik Muhammad Usman Gul , Ahsan Aziz , James Wesley McCoy
- Applicant: NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: National Instruments Corporation
- Current Assignee: National Instruments Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Agency: Kowert, Hood, Munyon, Rankin & Goetzel, P.C.
- Agent Jeffrey C. Hood; Michael B. Davis
- Main IPC: H04L25/02
- IPC: H04L25/02 ; H04W56/00 ; H04J13/00 ; H04L25/03

Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed relating to channel sounding. In some embodiments a transmitter transmits a periodic CAZAC sequence beginning at a point in time that corresponds to a timing signal (e.g., a pulse-per-second signal). In some embodiments, a receiver waits to begin processing received sequences for a time interval corresponding to the length of the CAZAC sequence, where the time interval begins at the same time as the timing signal. This may avoid a need for timing synchronization prior to processing, reduce processing and latency in receiver implementations, and may allow determination of a TOA as well as a channel impulse response estimate by correlating a received cyclically-shifted CAZAC sequence with a local version of the transmitted CAZAC sequence.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170207931A1 Channel Sounding Techniques Public/Granted day:2017-07-20
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