摘要:
The underlying invention generally relates to the field of coherent modulator architectures for the processing of modulated RF signals of digital communication systems, especially to a processing unit realizing an effective I/Q imbalance correction for high-level modulation schemes, e.g. 16-QAM or 64-QAM, under the coexistence of a carrier frequency error ( Δf RF ). According to one embodiment of the underlying invention, an I/Q modulator of a quadrature transmitter comprising a processing unit (302) for correcting the amplitude and phase of the I and Q signals by calculating calibration coefficients (h(M)) is applied, wherein the processing unit (302) is specially designed to carry out the following steps in order to calculate said calibration coefficients ( h ( M )): a) using a number of M signal samples in order to calculate initial calibration coefficients ( h k ( M )), wherein M is an integer value which is larger than 1, and b) calculating averaged calibration coefficients ( h ( M )) by averaging a plurality of said initial calibration coefficients ( h k ( M )) obtained by repeating step a) for a limited number of K repetitions, wherein K denotes an integer larger than 1. The averaged calibration coefficients ( h ( M )) are then used to correct the I and Q imbalance.
摘要:
The invention pertains to a dual-mode wireless transmission system operated in a wireless ad-hoc manner using a low-bit-rate, continuous wireless signaling channel for conveying a wireless status and/or control information and a high-bit-rate data channel assigned on demanded bases at the same time. In this connection, the low-bit-rate channel assists and manages the high-bit-rate data channel. Furthermore, the low-bit-rate wireless channel and the high-bit-rate data channel employ different radio transmission technologies (optimized for the specific purpose) and are operated logically in parallel.