PASSIVE BACKSCATTERING BEAMFORMER BASED ON LARGE-AREA ELECTRONICS

    公开(公告)号:US20240313857A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-19

    申请号:US17993168

    申请日:2022-11-23

    IPC分类号: H04B7/22

    CPC分类号: H04B7/22

    摘要: Systems and methods disclosed herein provide for a passive backscattering beamformer based on large-area electronics (LAE). Low power is critical for distributed nodes in future IoT/5G networks. A key emerging solution is using ubiquitous 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi infrastructure with passive backscattering nodes, for low-power communication. LAE enables monolithic integration of devices over large and flexible substrates, with recent advances into the gigahertz regime opening new opportunities for wireless systems. An LAE passive backscattering beamformer is chosen that is capable of (1) enhancing the backscattered signal power in a scalable manner enabled by LAE's monolithic integrability over meter-scale area; (2) configuration between constructive/destructive beamforming; (3) frequency-shift keying for data modulation and SNR enhancement, by shifting the signal away from the incident interferer; and (4) frequency division multiplexing for increasing data bandwidth.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE BEYOND LINE OF SIGHT (BLOS) COMMUNICATIONS VIA EVAPORATION DUCT

    公开(公告)号:US20240204867A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-20

    申请号:US18082962

    申请日:2022-12-16

    IPC分类号: H04B7/22 H04B17/391

    CPC分类号: H04B7/22 H04B17/391

    摘要: A communications node for transmitting and receiving beyond line of sight (BLOS) communications through an evaporation duct (ED) environment proximate to a body of water (e.g., coastal, littoral) models environmental conditions (e.g., duct heights) based on current climate data for the ED environment. Based on the modelled ED conditions, the node generates signal propagation models for each of a set of possible transmitting frequencies (e.g., likely signal loss, transmission range). Based on the most current ED signal propagation model, the node selects the optimal transmission frequency for BLOS communications through the evaporation duct.

    MULTIPLE ACCESS IN BACKSCATTER COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

    公开(公告)号:US20240146408A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-02

    申请号:US17973685

    申请日:2022-10-26

    IPC分类号: H04B7/22 H04W76/28

    CPC分类号: H04B7/22 H04W76/28

    摘要: A backscatter transmission scheme is provided in which a carrier signal is transmitted by a carrier communication device discontinuously as carrier signal bursts. The carrier signal, while it is on, is divided into carrier time segments. Each carrier time segment has a specified time. The different carrier time segments represent different times that backscatter devices can make backscatter transmissions. In addition, in some embodiments, a set of frequencies are available for backscatter transmission. The set of frequencies includes the carrier frequency and a set of frequencies with respective frequency shifts relative to the carrier frequency. The combination of a specific carrier time segment, a specific frequency shift, together constitutes a specific backscatter transmission opportunity.

    Handling signals received on paths with differing numbers of hops

    公开(公告)号:US11728887B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-15

    申请号:US17447383

    申请日:2021-09-10

    发明人: Kevin J. Babich

    摘要: A wireless communication system includes a first wireless communication node for transmitting a data signal that is sent to a second wireless communication node by skywave propagation over at least two different data transmission paths. The first data transmission path includes at least one reflection point where the data signal is reflected by the atmosphere and the second data transmission path includes more reflection points than the first data transmission path. The data signal that travelled along the first data transmission path is decoded before the data signal that travelled along the second data transmission path.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO OVERCOME SKIP ZONES

    公开(公告)号:US20230118922A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-20

    申请号:US17686461

    申请日:2022-03-04

    摘要: Wireless communication systems and methods are provided that include at least one base transmitter unit, at least one repeater unit, at least one receiver, and an artificial intelligence unit. The base transmitter unit is configured to transmit a data signal. The repeater unit is in communication with the transmitter and is configured to transmit the data signal via sky wave propagation. The receiver is in communication with the transmitter and the repeater and is configured to receive the data signal. The artificial intelligence unit monitors ionospheric conditions in the area and controls the data signal, making adjustments so the data signal overcomes skip zones. The adjustments may include automatically adjusting the power and position of the antenna array to re-route the data signal and/or dynamically changing the frequency of the data signal.

    RADIO FREQUENCY RECEIVE CHAIN CONTROL FOR RECEIVING SATELLITE POSITIONING SIGNALS

    公开(公告)号:US20230067256A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-02

    申请号:US17411864

    申请日:2021-08-25

    摘要: A satellite signal processing method includes: receiving, at a user equipment, a first satellite signal of a first frequency band from at least one satellite of a constellation of satellites; receiving, at the user equipment, a second satellite signal of a second frequency band and from the at least one satellite of the constellation of satellites; and controlling an activation status of at least one of: a first satellite signal receive chain, of the user equipment, configured to measure the first satellite signal; or a second satellite signal receive chain, of the user equipment, configured to measure the second satellite signal.

    SIGNAL SOURCE IDENTIFICATION AND DETERMINATION

    公开(公告)号:US20230016160A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-19

    申请号:US17782802

    申请日:2020-05-20

    IPC分类号: H04L5/00 H04B7/22 H04W16/10

    摘要: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, apparatuses and computer readable storage media for signal source identification and determination. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, in response to detecting a signal, a device identifies at least one unit sequence from the signal. A bandwidth of each unit sequence is a common divisor of overlapping system bandwidths among a plurality of devices. The at least one unit sequence uniquely identifies a further device transmitting the signal. The device determines, based on the at least one unit sequence, the further device from the plurality of devices. As such, a device suffering interference due to atmospheric ducting can find out an interference source and perform an action to avoid the interference.

    MULTI-CARRIER RESOURCE ALLOCATION METHOD BASED ON WIRELESS-POWERED BACKSCATTER COMMUNICATION NETWORK

    公开(公告)号:US20220407592A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-22

    申请号:US17261873

    申请日:2020-12-26

    IPC分类号: H04B7/22 H04W72/04 H04W72/08

    摘要: The present invention relates to a multi-carrier resource allocation method based on a wireless-powered backscatter communication network. The method comprises following steps: S1. constructing a wireless-powered backscatter communication system; S2: according to circuit power and transmit power constraints, establishing a resource allocation optimization problem taking a maximum total transmission rate of the system as an objective function; S3: according to the objective function and constraint conditions, decomposing an optimization sub-problem taking the transmit power of the backscatter transmitter as a variable; S4: after substituting optimal transmit power of the backscatter transmitter into an original problem, decomposing a sub-problems taking an energy allocation coefficient as a variable from an original optimization problem; S5: converting non-convex problems containing coupling variables into convex problems, creating a Lagrangian function, obtaining an optimal solution form according to a KKT condition, and iteratively updating corresponding variables using a gradient descent method until convergence.

    Backscattering ambient ism band signals

    公开(公告)号:US11483836B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-25

    申请号:US16344983

    申请日:2017-10-25

    摘要: A backscatter tag device includes, in part, a receiver configured to receive a packet conforming to a communication protocol defining a multitude of codewords, a codeword translator configured to translate at least a first subset of the multitude of codewords disposed in the packet to a second multitude of codewords defined by the protocol in response to a data the backscatter tag is invoked to transmit, and a transmitter configured to transmit the packet supplied by the codeword translator at a frequency different than the first frequency at which the packer is received. The communication protocol may optionally be the 802.11 g/n, ZigBee or the Bluetooth communication protocol.