摘要:
Highly effective systems and methods for synchronizing OFDM receiver parameters to an OFDM transmitter are provided. These parameters may include carrier frequency, burst timing, and cyclic prefix length. These systems and methods incorporate special structural features into the OFDM signal to facilitate synchronization. In one embodiment, a supplemental cyclic prefix is added to an OFDM signal to facilitate synchronization. In an alternative embodiment, a synchronization burst with a periodic structure is used to facilitate synchronization. According to the present invention, synchronization may be maintained even if low cost analog oscillator components are used.
摘要:
A space-time signal processing system with advantageously reduced complexity. The system may take advantage of multiple transmitter antenna elements and/or multiple receiver antenna elements, or multiple polarizations of a single transmitter antenna element and/or single receiver antenna element. The system is not restricted to wireless contexts and may exploit any channel having multiple inputs or multiple outputs and certain other characteristics. Multi-path effects in a transmission medium cause a multiplicative increase in capacity.
摘要:
In a wireless network according to embodiments of the present invention, fast control messaging frames are used to signal control information. A fast control messaging (“FCM”) frame includes MAC layer control bits in a PLCP header, obviating the need for a PSDU. These frames can be used in 802.11n wireless networks as well as in other suitable 802.11x networks as well as non-802.11x networks to exchange control information while significantly reducing network overhead. In some embodiments, some information that might have been conveyed to a receiver's MAC layer in a PSDU is conveyed by including that information is a PLCP header and having logic within the receiver's PHY layer processing to process that information and convey that information up to the receiver's MAC layer in a simulated PSDU or other method. The indicator of an FCM frame can be a bit in a PLCP header, a modification of a CRC field of the PLCP header, or other indicator. The medication of the CRC field of the PLCP header can be an inversion of the CRC field, a translation of the CRC field by a constant value, or both, or some other variation.
摘要:
Circuits, methods, and apparatus that provide high-throughput control fields that, among other functions, provide efficient TXOP handoffs in wireless networks. A handoff may be made by setting one or more bits in a field in a QoS frame, such as the HT control or other appropriate field. Various conditions may be placed on a handoff by a granting station. For example, conditions specifying where a station receiving a TXOP handoff may send data, what the receiving station may do with any remaining TXOP, or what types of data may be transmitted by the receiving station may be imposed. These various conditions may be combined or omitted in any logic combination.
摘要:
In a wireless transmitter having a plurality of spatial streams differentiable at a receiver, wherein data is encoded and transmitted over a communication channel with pilot tones to provide the receiver with information about the effects of the communication channel and/or transmitter impairments and/or receiver impairments on the spatial streams transmitted, the benefits can be provided by identifying a plurality of symbol periods within which symbols representing some of the encoded data are to be transmitted, identifying pilot tone values for the plurality of symbol periods, wherein the identified pilot tone values are such that the receiver, when receiving at least some of the pilot tones having the identified pilot tone values, is provided with signals enabling the receiver to characterize the communication channel and/or transmitter impairments and/or receiver impairments to obtain transmit stream diversity gain, and transmitting the symbols and the pilot tones over the plurality of spatial streams for the plurality of symbol periods. In some embodiments, the pilot tones are orthogonal over space and time or over space and time and frequency, while in others they are semi-orthogonal. Pilot tone values might be of a constant amplitude and phase shifted, or might also have amplitude variations wherein at least two pilot tones are nonzero for spatial streams for a given symbol period.
摘要:
A medium access contention protocol that is highly beneficial in wireless networks and particularly in wireless networks that employ a fixed minimum burst size such as OFDM wireless networks. In one embodiment, a MAC protocol is a demand-assigned protocol that maximizes utilization of the bus medium (the allocated frequency spectrum.) Each data communication device (DCD) in the network communicates with a central access point (AP). Multiple DCDs may request access from the AP in the same request access (RA) burst. Each of the multiple DCDs transmits its access request to the AP within a frequency domain channel in the RA burst that is orthogonal to the frequency domain channels used by the other DCDs requesting access. Each DCD includes channel training information in the access request burst to allow the AP and/or DCD to adapt to rapid variations in channel characteristics.
摘要:
Systems and methods for optimally combining signals from multiple antennas to ameliorate the effects of noise and/or interference on OFDM communications are provided. In one embodiment, an initial spatial statistical characterization of interference and/or noise is based on training symbols received via each antenna. Because the transmitted values of the training symbols are already known, there is no need to estimate their transmitted value to form this initial statistical characterization. The data symbol values received via the multiple antennas are combined based on the initial spatial statistical characterization. The result of this combination step is then used to form a refined spatial statistical characterization of noise and/or interference. The received data symbol values are then recombined based on the refined spatial statistical characterization.