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.
Abstract:
To improve accuracy for verifying reception in the data transmission utilizing the common channel. A radio communication apparatus for transmitting the data to the transmitting destination apparatus selected from a plurality of transmitting destination apparatuses using the shared channel, comprises a control unit for controlling data transmission and a path search unit for identifying the transmitting destination apparatus as the object of the path search in accordance with control of data transmission.
Abstract:
A buffering apparatus to process digital communication signals includes a plurality of buffers, a processing unit, and programmed memory. The programmed memory has instructions directing the processing unit to process the digital samples corresponding to a group of symbols to be processed in a plurality of buffers. The digital samples start in a first buffer of the plurality of buffers and end in a second buffer of the plurality of buffers. The digital samples are received at a third buffer of the plurality of buffers during the processing of the digital samples.
Abstract:
A reconfigurable multi-code correlation unit for correlating a sequence of chip samples comprising 1) a memory for storing the chip samples; 2) a plurality of add-subtract cells, each add-subtract cell receiving a plurality of real bits, a, and a plurality of imaginary bits, b, from a first chip sample and storing each real bit, a, and each imaginary bit, b, in a data store; and 3) a plurality of sign select units. Each sign select units receives from one add-subtract cell a plurality of first inputs equal to a sum (a+b) of the real bits, a, and the imaginary bits, b, and a plurality of second inputs equal to a difference (a−b) of the real bits, a, and the imaginary bits, b. Each sign select unit generates a plurality of real outputs and a plurality of imaginary outputs, wherein each of the real and imaginary outputs is equal to one of 1) the sum (a+b) multiplied by one of +1 and −1 and 2) the difference (a−b) multiplied by one of +1 and −1.
Abstract:
A method of processing digital samples of a signal received at a receiver of a wireless communication system includes monitoring channel conditions and generating a channel indicator including at least one channel parameter by performing at least one of: estimating a channel mobility parameter and comparing it with a threshold; estimating a channel parameter of the energy of the channel outside a predefined temporal window and comparing it with a threshold; estimating a channel temporal duration parameter and establishing if it meets predetermined criteria; estimating a channel-zero location parameter and establishing if it meets predetermined criteria; estimating a received-signal signal-to-disturbance power ratio and comparing it to a threshold; estimating an estimated-channel-response signal-to-disturbance power ratio; estimating the degree of non-stationarity of the disturbance at the receiver input; and selecting one of a plurality of processing routines for processing the digital samples based on said channel indicator. Related receivers are also described.
Abstract:
A code transmitted in a wireless format is to be detected. A power level associated with the code is determined. The determined power level is compared with a plurality of thresholds. A test statistic is increased or decreased based on which of the thresholds that the determined power level falls within. If the test statistic exceeds an acceptance threshold, the code is deemed acquired. If the test statistic is below a dismissal threshold, the code is deemed not present. If the test statistic does not exceed the acceptance threshold and the test statistic is not below the dismissal threshold, the testing for the code is repeated.
Abstract:
A multi-carrier RAKE receiver is described herein. The multi-carrier RAKE receiver distributes RAKE fingers between a plurality of received carriers based on a comparison between the signal-to-interference ratios (SIRs) determined for each carrier. In one embodiment, the RAKE fingers are distributed evenly between the carriers when a comparison between the largest and smallest SIR is less than or equal to a threshold. In another embodiment, the RAKE fingers are distributed to favor the carrier(s) with the strongest SIR(s) when the comparison between the largest and smallest SIR exceeds the threshold. By distributing the RAKE fingers to favor the carriers with the strongest SIRs, the embodiments of the present invention enable the system designers to limit the total number of available RAKE fingers without sacrificing performance.
Abstract:
A system is provided. The system comprises a transform domain radio receiver comprising a plurality of reconfigurable processing paths coupled to a radio frequency signal input, each reconfigurable processing path implementing a down converter, a low-pass filter, and an integrator and wherein a frequency selectivity of the processing path is reconfigurable. The system also comprises a control unit to configure a frequency selectivity of the plurality of parallel reconfigurable processing paths.
Abstract:
A method of searching digital communication signals in a system includes combining a plurality of channel measurements, providing output of the combining of channel measurements as an added input to the plurality of channel measurements, and acquiring a signal symbol based on results from the combining of channel measurements without addressing all timing hypothesis individually via a correlation operation.
Abstract:
Systems and methods that provide wireless communications are provided. One or more of the systems and methods may include, for example, selecting a lower data rate or a higher data rate based upon at least an evaluation of the operating conditions of a radio network. The evaluation may include, for example, computing a weighted signal strength measurement in which the weighting gives emphasis to the lower signal strength measurements of fading radio frequency signals.