Abstract:
The present invention provides a system (300-400), apparatus (300-400), and method for an energy-based antenna selection technique in which the antenna that observes the largest SNR averaged over all carriers per sub-band (405) is selected for space-time coded MB-OFDM systems. Due to the frequency-selective nature of the system, different sub-band may have different channel gaining effect from the multi-path channels. We can perform energy-based antenna selection per sub-band, and the simulation results show that the proposed technique works not only for MB-OFDM UWB channels with shadowing, but also for the same channel without shadowing.
Abstract:
An incoming signal, such as a data frame, is detected in a RF stage (302) of a wireless station (300). This allows the baseband stage (304) to be in a low power or off state until an incoming signal is detected. By detecting an incoming signal in the RF stage (302), the amount of power consumed by the baseband stage (304) is advantageously reduced. When an incoming signal is detected, the RF stage (302) generates an activation signal that is sent to the baseband stage (304) to activate the baseband stage (304). Once activated, the baseband stage (304) receives the signal and performs signal processing and data recovery operations.