Abstract:
Peak fade depth is measured (202) over a period of time, and a bandwidth of a channel filter (104) is then determined (206) according to the measured peak fade depth (202). In preferred embodiments the average peak fade depth over two or more time slots is used. In a specific embodiment, an α filter (206) is used to determine the bandwidth of the matched filter (104), in which α is determined based upon the measured peak fade depth (204). In various embodiments, peak fade depth is correlated to the Doppler shifting of the channel, which in turn is used to determine the bandwidth of the matched filter by way of the α parameter. Hence, a non-linear equation can be used to determine the value of α which yields a minimum bit error rate for the matched filter (104). More specifically, a matched filter (104) is matched to a received signal r(t) having k states according to a plurality of matched filters Mk and outputs a signal given by |r(t)−Ck(t)*Mk(t)|2, in which Ck(t) is a channel estimate provide by a channel tracker (106) for a state k at time period t that is given by Ck(t)=α*ck(t)+(1−α)*Ck(t−1), ck(t)=Mk*r(t)/(Mk*conj(Mk)), and conj(Mk) is the complex conjugate of Mk. For each time slot, α is computed from the running average of the peak fade depth (202) according to a predetermined equation (204).
Abstract:
A method for serial transmission of data in form of telegrams and symbols between at least one sender and at least one receiver, includes converting on the sender side an item of data into a symbol, converting on the receiver side the symbol into an item of data, identifying a telegram with special symbols, transmitting at least one first and one second pause symbol different from the special symbols for encoding a pause between telegrams, and deriving information from a sequence of the pause symbols.
Abstract:
A technique detects the presence of a packet identification sequence in a received sequence of samples received over a communications network. The packet identification sequence, when present and properly detected in a received packet, is used to determine a particular type of the received packet from a plurality of packet types that may be received over the communications network. The technique for detecting the packet identification sequence includes detecting a null sequence in the received packet and a predetermined identification sequence in the packet. Detection of the predetermined sequence uses energy estimates for corresponding windows of received samples.
Abstract:
In a method for generating a data unit, a signal field is generated to include a first subfield having one of: a length indication to indicate a number of bytes in a data portion of the data unit, or a duration indication to indicate a number of OFDM symbols in the data portion of the data unit and a second subfield to indicate whether the first subfield includes the length indication or the duration indication. When the first subfield includes the length indication, one or more padding bits are added to a set of information bits according to a first padding scheme. When the first subfield includes the duration indication, one or more padding bits are added to the set of information bits to according to a second padding scheme. Padded information bits are encoded, and the data unit is generated to included the encoded information bits.
Abstract:
Aspects of a method and system for channel estimation for interference suppression are provided. In this regard, one or more circuits and/or processors of a mobile communication device may generate and/or receive a first set of channel estimates and a second set of channel estimates. The one or more circuits and/or processors may modify the second set of channel estimates based on a comparison of a measure of correlation between the first set of channel estimates and the second set of channel estimates with a threshold. The first set of channel estimates and/or the modified second set of channel estimates may be utilized for cancelling interference in received signals. The first set of channel estimates may be associated with a first transmit antenna of a base transceiver station and the second set of channel estimates may be associated with a second transmit antenna of the base transceiver station.
Abstract:
A communication system utilizing a hierarchically modulated signal and method thereof are provided, wherein a receiver system is configured to receive a hierarchically modulated signal. The receiver system includes a receiver device configured to receive the hierarchically modulated signal, which is a function of a time domain, and including a high priority data stream that has a single carrier type modulation, and a low priority data stream having data bits that are spread over a plurality of data symbols of a high priority data modulation. The receiver system further includes a low priority processor device, which includes an OFDM decoder configured to convert the low priority data stream of the hierarchically modulated signal that is a function of the time domain to be a function of a frequency domain by utilizing a FFT, such that an output is emitted that is representative of the low priority data stream.
Abstract:
A relay and a terminal in a multi-pair two-way network and a communication method thereof is provided. A communication method of a relay of a network including K transmit-and-receive pairs including a plurality of terminals, with the relay including M antennas and each of the terminals including N antennas, including accessing a codebook including codewords, the codebook being configured to enable effective channels from the K transmit-and-receive pairs to the relay to be aligned in independent dimensions, respectively, when the K transmit-and-receive pairs transmit signals simultaneously, each of the effective channels being aligned based on one of the codewords, selecting one or more of the codewords indicating the effective channels from the K transmit-and-receive pairs to the relay, respectively, and transmitting information associated with the selected codewords to corresponding ones of the K transmit-and-receive pairs.
Abstract:
Techniques for dynamically managing receiver resources to achieve good latency and throughput performance are described. A receiver may have various types of receiver resources such as demod resources for demodulating packets, decode resources for decoding packets, packet processing resources, etc. These various types of receiver resources may be dynamically assigned to packets. In one design, receiver resource usage by each packet to be processed by the receiver may be estimated. The available receiver resources may be assigned to packets based on the estimated receiver resource usage by each packet and one or more assignment criteria such as priority, latency requirements, etc. The latency of each packet may be determined based on the receiver resource assignment. If the latency requirements of any packet are not met, then receiver processing may be skipped or deferred for one or more packets such that the latency requirements of each packet to be processed can be met.
Abstract:
An encoding apparatus that divides an input time series signal into a plurality of sub-bands and encodes a low frequency sub-band signal to generate encoded data of the low frequency sub-band signal. Concurrently, it compares the frequency amplitude peak of the new high frequency sub-band signal generated from the low frequency sub-band signal and the original high frequency sub-band signal and generates frequency amplitude peak information of the high frequency sub-band signal. It compares the gain of the new high frequency sub-band signal generated by using the low frequency sub-band signal and the original high frequency sub-band signal and generates gain information of the high frequency sub-band signal. Subsequently, the signal encoding apparatus multiplexes the encoded data of the low frequency sub-band signal, the frequency amplitude peak information of the high frequency sub-band signal and the gain information of the high frequency sub-band signal and outputs compressed data.
Abstract:
Peak fade depth is measured (202) over a period of time, and a bandwidth of a channel filter (104) is then determined (206) according to the measured peak fade depth (202). In preferred embodiments the average peak fade depth over two or more time slots is used. In a specific embodiment, an α filter (206) is used to determine the bandwidth of the matched filter (104), in which α is determined based upon the measured peak fade depth (204). In various embodiments, peak fade depth is correlated to the Doppler shifting of the channel, which in turn is used to determine the bandwidth of the matched filter by way of the α parameter. Hence, a non-linear equation can be used to determine the value of α which yields a minimum bit error rate for the matched filter (104). More specifically, a matched filter (104) is matched to a received signal r(t) having k states according to a plurality of matched filters Mk and outputs a signal given by |r(t)−Ck(t)*Mk(t)|2, in which Ck(t) is a channel estimate provide by a channel tracker (106) for a state k at time period t that is given by Ck(t)=α*ck(t)+(1−α)*Ck(t−1), ck(t)=Mk*r(t)/(Mk*conj(Mk)), and conj(Mk) is the complex conjugate of Mk. For each time slot, α is computed from the running average of the peak fade depth (202) according to a predetermined equation (204).