Abstract:
A wireless communication network (10) comprising a wireless transmitter (12). The transmitter comprises a plurality of antennas (AT11, AT12), wherein each of the plurality of antennas is operable for transmitting signals. The transmitter also comprises, for each of a plurality of different user channels (Dn), circuitry (22n) for providing a plurality of groups of symbols in a first symbol group sequence (D1n). The transmitter also comprises, for each of the plurality of different user channels, circuitry (241n) for forming a first modulated symbol group sequence for the user channel by modulating the symbols in the first symbol group sequence for the user channel with a unique code that corresponds to the user channel and distinguishes the user channel from each other of the plurality of different user channels and circuitry (261) for combining the first modulated symbol group sequences and providing them for transmission by a first antenna (AT11). The transmitter also comprises, for each of the plurality of different user channels, circuitry (22n) for forming a second symbol group sequence (D2n) by re-ordering the groups of symbols in the first symbol group sequence and further by time reversing symbols in at least some of the groups of symbols. Also for each of the plurality of different user channels, the transmitter comprises circuitry (242n) for forming a second modulated symbol group sequence for the user channel by modulating the symbols in the second symbol group sequence for the user channel with a unique code that corresponds to the user and distinguishes the user from each other of the plurality of different user channels. Finally, the transmitter comprises circuitry (262) for combining the second modulated symbol group sequences and providing them for transmission by the second antenna (AT12).
Abstract:
A wireless receiver (30x) for receiving signals from an interference-limited transmitter in an interference-limited system comprising at least one transmit antenna, wherein the signals comprise a plurality of symbols. The receiver comprises at least one receive antenna (RATx) and collection circuitry (38). The collection circuitry is coupled to the at least one receive antenna and is for collecting a plurality of signal samples from the at least one receive antenna. The plurality of signal samples comprise at least one symbol and interference effects between different symbols communicated from the transmitter to the receiver. The receiver also comprises suppression circuitry (44 or 60), coupled to the collection circuitry, for suppressing the interference effects. The receiver also comprises circuitry (46, 48, 50) for receiving signals from the suppression circuitry and for providing estimates of a group of bits and detection circuitry (52) for detecting an error in a packet that comprises the group of bits. Lastly, the receiver also comprises circuitry (52) for requesting the transmitter to transmit a retransmission of a packet in response to the detection circuitry detecting the error.
Abstract:
A reconfigurable chip level equalizer having circuitry that restores signal orthogonality and eliminates channel interference for a wireless transmitted signal. In at least some embodiments, the reconfigurable chip level equalizer comprises two or more adaptive equalizers, a plurality of operational blocks that interconnect the two or more adaptive equalizers, and a control mechanism that configures the two or more adaptive equalizers and operational blocks according to different signal delay profiles.