摘要:
Various techniques are disclosed for unambiguously determining and tracking frame offset in asynchronous wireless communication user equipment. The user equipment determines the unambiguous connection frame number of a downlink channel. The equipment then determines frame timing information for neighbor cells. The frame timing information for the primary common control physical channel and uplink dedicated physical channels is determined. The frame timing is determined as a coarse resolution frame offset in conjunction with a fine resolution chip offset. The frame numbering information for the uplink and downlink dedicated physical channels and the primary common control physical channel is also determined. Then the frame number and timing information is updated using a counter accurate to one chip resolution. The frame offset is updated if the number of chips underflows or overflows a predetermined window. Frame timing may be updated by updating only the fine chip offset or may be completely determined.
摘要:
A method for adjusting timing in a Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM) system, including receiving a request to perform a timing correction, generating a time domain FDM symbol, and controlling the timing correction in the time domain FDM symbol by at least one of adjusting a length of a cyclic prefix, overlapping a portion of adjacent FDM symbols, adjusting a symbol windowing length, or utilizing a return link (RL) silence interval.
摘要:
A modem (for example, a modem within a cellular telephone) includes a plurality of Wireless Communication System Modem Sub-Circuits (WCSMSCs). Each WCSMSC receives a control signal generated by a corresponding one of a plurality of programmable timers. Each timer receives the same sequence of count values from a wall clock counter. A processor that controls overall modem operation can program a timer to generate a control pulse at a particular count time of the wall clock counter. The processor can also program a timer to generate a periodic control signal. The control signals output from the timers orchestrate when the various WCSMSCs start operating in the processing of a frame. By virtue of the programmability of the timers, the wall clock timer system is programmable to generate customized control signals such that frames of new and different protocols having arbitrary frame structures can be processed by the same modem/timer system.
摘要:
A method for adjusting timing in a Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM) system, including receiving a request to perform a timing correction, generating a time domain FDM symbol, and controlling the timing correction in the time domain FDM symbol by at least one of adjusting a length of a cyclic prefix, overlapping a portion of adjacent FDM symbols, adjusting a symbol windowing length, or utilizing a return link (RL) silence interval.
摘要:
A communications system and method for a wireless mobile device is provided. The method includes performing sleep mode operations in a device and performing wake-up operations with one or more base stations in view of the sleep mode operations in the device. The method also includes demodulating a communications channel for the device during sleep mode operations in the device and prior to synchronizing with the base stations.
摘要:
A demodulation mask bitmap includes binary mask values. Each mask value corresponds to an input resource element to a demodulator. For each mask value of a first state, a demodulation engine of the demodulator is not clocked and the demodulator outputs a zero-valued resource element. For each mask value of a second state, the demodulation engine is clocked, the input resource element is demodulated, and the demodulator outputs a demodulated resource element. A demodulation mask bitmap is designed to mask pilot resource elements and corrupted resource elements. Power is conserved by not clocking the demodulation engine for corrupted and pilot resource elements. Subsequent LLR generation and decode operations are simplified. Decoder performance is improved because the decoder does not decode LLR values derived from corrupted resource elements and/or resource elements not relevant to the reconstruction of a communicated message.
摘要:
A reference signal management (RSM) program executing on a mobile device detects multiple reference signals, allocates those reference signals into groups, and performs reference signal management functions using information conveyed in the reference signals. The RSM program detects both broadband and narrowband reference signals and maintains updated groups of reference signals that are transmitted from access points with independent configurations or different radio technologies. Battery power of the mobile device is efficiently used to manage reference signals in heterogeneous network environments by preventing unnecessary handoffs, overhead downloads, access probes and new registrations. Reference signals are managed from both synchronous and asynchronous sectors and in idle mode as well as in connected state mode. The RSM program performs functions such as managing handoffs between access points, managing an idle mode of the mobile device, managing an active group of the detected reference signals, and collecting overhead parameters for the mobile device.
摘要:
A demodulation mask bitmap includes binary mask values. Each mask value corresponds to an input resource element to a demodulator. For each mask value of a first state, a demodulation engine of the demodulator is not clocked and the demodulator outputs a zero-valued resource element. For each mask value of a second state, the demodulation engine is clocked, the input resource element is demodulated, and the demodulator outputs a demodulated resource element. A demodulation mask bitmap is designed to mask pilot resource elements and corrupted resource elements. Power is conserved by not clocking the demodulation engine for corrupted and pilot resource elements. Subsequent LLR generation and decode operations are simplified. Decoder performance is improved because the decoder does not decode LLR values derived from corrupted resource elements and/or resource elements not relevant to the reconstruction of a communicated message.
摘要:
In embodiments, a wireless receiver employs a hardware-based Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) engine controlled by firmware. The FFT engine executes tasks stored in a task list. Each task is associated with a different portion of a signal, for example, one or more Orthogonal Frequency Division Modulated (OFDM) symbols. Each task may include configuration information for the FFT engine for configuring the engine to process the associated portion of the signal, a pointer to the portion to be processed, and another pointer to the memory for storing the output. The task list may be firmware controlled. Division of the FFT into a configurable hardware part driven by firmware to read and execute the tasks in the task list may speed up the FFT process and make it more flexible. A hardware beacon sorter may be coupled to the FFT engine to sort the sub-carriers according to their energies.
摘要:
An apparatus operable in a wireless communication system, the apparatus may include an FFT symbol buffer and a demapping device. The FFT symbol buffer can feed FFT symbol data derived from received communication signals to a channel estimation device and a shared buffer. The channel estimation device can also provide intermediate data to the shared buffer. The intermediate data may be in tile form and can be derived from the FFT symbol data. Further, the intermediate data can be stored in the shared buffer. The demapping device can extract the intermediate data from the shared buffer in various forms including sub-packet form.