摘要:
An integrated vectorcardiogram (VCG) device having 3 pairs of electrodes placed in three orthogonal directions with the capability to continuously measure the electrical activity of the heart. All of the electrode pairs may be contained within a single miniaturized housing thereby eliminating the need for cumbersome wires required with current 12-lead ECG systems, while providing the same amount and quality of information as the 12-lead ECG system. The integrated VCG device also includes a communications function to allow the data collected by the electrodes to be transmitted wirelessly to a remote device, such as a pacemaker, to control its function or to a remote monitoring station for continuous real-time patient monitoring.
摘要:
A telecommunications system is arranged to efficiently route digital information from a mobile network to a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and vice versa by interposing a packet network between the mobile network and PSTN so that digital information originating from the wireless network at a first data rate may be forwarded over the packet network at that rate and then sent over a direct connection from the packet network to the PSTN at a second data rate expected by the PSTN. In this way the conversion of the digital information from the first to the second data rate is performed only when needed, i.e., at the ATM switch connected to the PSTN.
摘要:
A multi-code code division multiple access system allows a user at a radio transmitter unit to dynamically change its source data bit rate. In response to a user input selecting one of said plurality of source bit rates, an adjustable coding means in the transmitter spreads and transmits the user's digital bit stream received at the selected bit rate to a channel bit rate which at least equals the highest bit rate of said plurality of source bit rates. The plurality of source bit rates includes a basic bit rate R and at least one bit rate which is a multiple M of the basic bit rate R, where M is an integer of at least 1. The user's input selects a particular user source bit rate by identifying a basic bit rate multiple M to a base station that is to receive the transmission.
摘要:
An automatic and adaptive time-domain equalizer with a first transversal structure operating on received signal samples has its convergence properties improved by the addition of a second transversal structure operating on detected signal samples and having its tap-gain settings conjugate, i.e., reversed in time, with respect to those of the first transversal structure for effectively measuring the spread of tap gain values generated at the first transversal structure and a third transversal structure also operating on received signal samples but having its tap-gain settings determined by the spreading error. The matrix product of the spreading-error tap-gain values and received signal samples modifies the up-dating of the tap-gain values controlling the first transversal structure. The resultant faster convergence is particularly useful in the presence of severe amplitude distortion in the data transmission channel.
摘要:
The present invention provides a novel rate adaptation algorithm and QoS-aware MAC scheduling system and method that either maximizes user satisfaction or maximizes spectrum utilization while maintaining user satisfaction by trading off the spectral resource allocations of connections for the application-level QoS based on the user-specific requirements. An adaptive scheduler is presented that incorporates user specific QoS requirements in the spectral allocation of resources.
摘要:
Multiple microcell base stations are located within a macrocell having single macrocell base station in an hierarchical architecture, and microcell users (&mgr;-users) and macrocell users (M-users) communicate respectively with the &mgr;-base and the M-base using the same frequency band, by appropriately (a) selecting the ratio of the radius r of each &mgr; cell and the average distance d from the M-base (r and d are measured by the “radio distance”, which includes the effects of shadowing), and (b) controlling the power level with which uplink (mobile to base) and downlink (base to mobile) messages are communicated. Typically, &mgr;-cell size and location are chosen such that d/r>10. With respect to uplink communications, the transmit powers of the &mgr;-users in a &mgr;-cell are controlled so that the total received power at the nearest M-base is equivalent to the received power from C M-users, where C is usually set to unity. As a result, the M-cell basically loses C users worth of capacity, but the total number of users is increased by virtue of the additional &mgr;-users. With respect to downlink communications, as long as the microbase and the macrobase are coordinated systems, the &mgr;-base transmit power is controlled so that at the point of handoff between a &mgr;-base and M-base, the received power at a user from the two bases is equivalent, and the received power at the bases from this user is also equivalent. With this arrangement, the &mgr;-base transmit power is increased as r grows and d decreases in order for this balance to occur. Where the M-base and &mgr;-base have no knowledge of each other and handoffs are not allowed between the two base types, a family of I/Q short codes which are quasi-orthogonal to the existing short (pilot) codes are generated, and these codes are used to distinguish between the M-base and &mgr;-base signals.
摘要:
The circuit complexity of a closed-loop echo cancellation system for use in a two-way communication circuit is reduced by employing a second adjustable signal processing network of the transversal type positioned in the control loop to emulate the characteristic of a recursive adjustable signal processing network. The two signal processing networks in the control loop are adjusted simultaneously to effect echo cancellation. The second signal processing network compensates for the effect of transmission poles in the echo return path and reduces the duration of the impulse response of the echo return path significantly so that the first signal processing network in the control loop is greatly simplified. A third signal processing network of the recursive type is adjusted in accordance with the internal settings of the second network to perform signal processing inverse to that of the second network. The recursive network is utilized to provide a clear signal path through the echo cancellation system which is essentially free of echo.
摘要:
The present invention provides an enhanced DC-NC (eDC-NC) system and method that enables ultra-reliable networking, provides near-instant latency, reduces power consumption while recovering from simultaneous multiple link/node failures and improves the throughput for a wide variety of network architectures.
摘要:
An integrated vectorcardiogram (VCG) device having 3 pairs of electrodes placed in three orthogonal directions with the capability to continuously measure the electrical activity of the heart. All of the electrode pairs may be contained within a single miniaturized housing thereby eliminating the need for cumbersome wires required with current 12-lead ECG systems, while providing the same amount and quality of information as the 12-lead ECG system. The integrated VCG device also includes a communications function to allow the data collected by the electrodes to be transmitted wirelessly to a remote device, such as a pacemaker, to control its function or to a remote monitoring station for continuous real-time patient monitoring.
摘要:
The present invention is a system and method for automated position location using RF signposting. The present invention comprises a plurality of transmitting units placed throughout a service area. Each transmitting unit repeatedly transmits a signal including position information related to a position associated with the transmitting unit. The position information may be an absolute position or an encoded position based on the structure of a building in which the transmitting unit is located. A receiving unit receives the signal transmitted from a transmitting unit and determines the position of the receiving unit, based on the received indication. The transmitting units are placed to provide uniform coverage of the service area, thus providing position location indoors and in urban areas where GPS does not function properly.