摘要:
A method and apparatus for decoding digitally encoded communication signals transmitted over a fading channel. According to the disclosed embodiments, a sequence of test bits are transmitted in each TDMA slots, and a mathematical distance (e.g., a Hamming or Euclidean distance) is calculated and used to determine reliability information indicative of the reliability of the bits or symbols in a received time slot. Alternatively, a concatenated coding scheme can be used to transmit digital communication signals. Reliability information can be generated using the inner code and the output of the inner decoder.
摘要:
A communication system and method for transmitting relatively short data messages in the communication system. A dedicated frequency is sequentially switched into each of a plurality of satellite beams or traffic channels to transmit data messages at an increased power level to provide an increased signal margin. The increased power level of the dedicated frequency can be combined with coding and bit and message repetition to further increase the signal margin.
摘要:
A satellite communication system includes Earth-based terminal and a satellite constellation in non-geosynchronous Earth orbits. When two or more satellites are within range of a first Earth-based terminal, the station requests a communication link with the first satellite at a first data rate. If the first satellite will accept data transfer at the first communication rate, the first Earth-based terminal transmits data to the first satellite at the requested first data rate. If, however, the first satellite will not accept data transfer at the requested first data rate, the first Earth-based terminal transmits a first portion of the data to the first satellite at a second data rate and transmits a second portion of the data, different from the first portion of the data, to the second satellite at a third data rate. The first and second satellites relay the respective data portions to a second Earth-based terminal, either directly or via additional satellites. The second Earth-based terminal reassembles the first and second data portions to recover the original data. The data transfer may be unequal error correction encoded data whereby the second Earth-based terminal may recover the original data from only a portion of the received error correction encoded data.
摘要:
A source sequence of symbols is communicated over a communications medium by encoding the source sequence according to respective first and second error correction codes to produce respective first and second encoded sequences of symbols. The first and second encoded sequences are processed to produce a communications signal, which is then communicated over the communications medium. The communicated communications signal is processed to produce first and second received sequences of symbols corresponding to the first and second encoded sequences, respectively. The first and second received sequences are selectively recursively decoded according to the associated error correction codes augmented by previous estimates of a symbol of the source sequence to repeatedly produce revised estimates of the symbol until an estimate satisfying a predetermined reliability criteria is obtained.
摘要:
A satellite-cellular communication system includes a satellite based transceiver for transceiving two-way communications originated at a user terminal. As a part of call set up, a controller determines whether the user terminal should transmit in the uplink in either a wide band mode of operation or in a narrow band mode of operation. The controller then specifies to the user terminal the mode of operation through the transceiver.Whether the user terminal transmits in the uplink in a wide band or in a narrow band mode depends upon factors including the type of device, channel usage and efficiency in the channels to and from the satellite transceiver and the signal quality of the signals received at the transceiver.
摘要:
A synchronization method and apparatus for synchronizing a receiver, such as a radiotelephone operable in a cellular communication system with a transmitter. Synchronization sequences are transmitted as parts of a control signal to the receiver. The synchronization sequences are formed of either a dotting sequence or a set of m-sequences. Such synchronization sequences are of high margins and also permit synchronization of the user terminal responsive to a reduced number of calculations.
摘要:
A protocol and mechanism which provide for centralized asset tracking communications from a central station are based on a control/polling forward channel; i.e., a narrow band channel from the central station to tracking units affixed to the assets. A narrow band service channel is used by the asset tracking units to transmit to the central station to aid the central station in efficient scheduling of asset reporting, and a plurality of narrow band channels that are appropriately multiplexed are used for conveyance of data from the asset tracking units to the central station.
摘要:
Characteristics of the radio channel are used to establish key sequences for use in encrypting communicated information. These characteristics are the short-term reciprocity and rapid spatial decorrelation of phase of the radio channel. The keys can be established with computations equivalent to a bounded distance decoding procedure, and the decoder used to establish a key may be used for processing the subsequent data transmission. Compared to classical and public-key systems, an alternative mechanism for establishing and sharing key sequences that depends on a physical process is provided in which each party need not generate a pseudorandom quantity because the necessary randomness is provided by the temporal and spatial non-stationarity of the communication channel itself. By using a channel decoder, the probability of two users establishing the same secret key is substantially unity, and the probability of an eavesdropper establishing the same key is substantially zero. Also, the number of possible keys is large enough that finding the correct one by exhaustive search is impractical.
摘要:
An optimum communication system for communicating on adjacent frequency bands with minimal interference between adjacent channels comprises an encoder that is serially coupled to a mapper and two parallel processing branches, each processing branch having a transmit filter a digital-to-analog converter, a low pass filter and a modulator coupled in series. Both modulators are coupled to a summer, and an rf amplifier having a transmit antenna. The encoder is optimized by choosing a desired minimum Euclidean distance (DMED) between symbols, an encoder alphabet and a number of constellation points, permutating all possible encoder states and all possible input symbols to result in a plurality of encoder sets U, determining an in-band to adjacent band power ratio P.sub.ib /P.sub.ab for each code set is determined, discarding code sets U that having a minimum distance between symbol sets that do not exceed DMED, shifting by 90 degrees with respect to each other the phase of the signals passing through the modulators, and transmitting to a receiver the summation of the signals in each one of the parallel processing branches, whereby the encoder produces the code set of the remaining sets having the largest in-band to adjacent band power ratio P.sub.ib /P.sub.ab resulting in a transmitted signal having a spectrum that maximizes the ratio of in-band to adjacent band power for LMR systems. Maximizing the in-band to adjacent band power increases the ACIPR and also allows for increased data transmission rates.
摘要:
The subject disclosure is generally directed towards a technology by which non-contiguous channels of unequal bandwidth may be aggregated for use by communication devices. A data stream is partitioned (e.g., via puncturing) into partitioned data streams for communication over aggregated non-contiguous channels, one partitioned data stream per channel, in which partitioning is based upon each channel's bandwidth. Secondary puncturing may be used on any partitioned data stream that is to be transmitted over a channel associated with a regulatory constraint, e.g., a regulatory mask. Database querying, which may include providing device filter characteristics, may be used to obtain the set of channels available for use, along with any regulatory mask associated with a channel.