Pre-coder selection based on resource block grouping

    公开(公告)号:US10044532B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-07

    申请号:US11688756

    申请日:2007-03-20

    摘要: The present invention provides a receiver. In one embodiment, the receiver includes a receive portion employing transmission signals from a transmitter having multiple antennas and capable of providing channel estimates. The receiver also includes a feedback generator portion configured to provide to the transmitter a pre-coder selection for data transmission that is based on the channel estimates, wherein the pre-coder selection corresponds to a grouping of frequency-domain resource blocks. The present invention also provides a transmitter having multiple antennas. In one embodiment, the transmitter includes a transmit portion coupled to the multiple antennas and capable of applying pre-coding to a data transmission for a receiver. The transmitter also includes a feedback decoding portion configured to decode a pre-coder selection for the data transmission that is fed back from the receiver, wherein the pre-coder selection corresponds to a grouping of frequency-domain resource blocks.

    Enhanced carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) protocols
    2.
    发明授权
    Enhanced carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) protocols 有权
    增强载波侦听多路访问(CSMA)协议

    公开(公告)号:US09030932B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-05-12

    申请号:US13593428

    申请日:2012-08-23

    IPC分类号: H04L12/413 H04B3/54

    摘要: Systems and methods for enhanced carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) protocols are described. In various implementations, these systems and methods may be applicable to Power Line Communications (PLC). For example, a method may include attempting to access a communications channel to transmit a frame after a backoff time proportional to a randomly generated number within a contention window (CW), the CW having an initial value carried over from a previous transmission of a different frame. Additionally or alternatively, some of techniques described herein may facilitate the spreading of the time over which devices attempt to transmit packets, thereby reducing the probability of collisions using, for example, Additive Decrease Multiplicative Increase (ADMI) mechanisms.

    摘要翻译: 描述了用于增强载波侦听多路访问(CSMA)协议的系统和方法。 在各种实现中,这些系统和方法可以适用于电力线通信(PLC)。 例如,一种方法可以包括在与争用窗口(CW)中的随机生成的数字成比例的退避时间之后尝试访问通信信道以发送帧,所述CW具有从先前的不同的传输中携带的初始值 帧。 附加地或替代地,本文描述的技术中的一些技术可以有助于扩展这些设备尝试发送分组的时间,由此例如使用添加减少乘数增加(ADMI)机制来减少冲突的概率。

    Power line communications during selected time intervals
    3.
    发明授权
    Power line communications during selected time intervals 有权
    选定时间间隔内的电力线通信

    公开(公告)号:US08867629B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-10-21

    申请号:US13442248

    申请日:2012-04-09

    IPC分类号: H04B3/00 H04B3/54

    CPC分类号: H04B3/54 H04B2203/542

    摘要: A method of power line communications includes obtaining timing information for an AC mains signal transmitted on a power line in a power line communication (PLC) system that includes at least one receiver and at least one other device connected on the power line which provides variable loading during cycles of the AC mains signal. A first loading interval within at least a first cycle of the cycles having lower loading and at least a second loading interval within said first cycle having higher loading are identified using the timing information. At least one data packet is transmitted only during the first loading interval over the power line to the receiver.

    摘要翻译: 电力线通信的方法包括获得在包括至少一个接收器的电力线通信(PLC)系统中的电力线上传输的AC电力信号的定时信息,以及连接在电力线上的至少一个其他设备,其提供可变负载 在交流电源信号的周期。 使用定时信息来识别在具有较高负载的所述第一周期内具有较低负载和至少第二负载间隔的周期的至少第一周期内的第一加载间隔。 至少一个数据分组仅在电力线上的第一加载间隔期间被发送到接收机。

    Mapping schemes for secondary synchronization signal scrambling
    4.
    发明授权
    Mapping schemes for secondary synchronization signal scrambling 有权
    二次同步信号加扰的映射方案

    公开(公告)号:US08830984B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-09-09

    申请号:US13437719

    申请日:2012-04-02

    摘要: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a transmitter, a receiver and methods of operating a transmitter and a receiver. In one embodiment, the transmitter includes a synchronization unit configured to provide a primary synchronization signal and a secondary synchronization signal having first and second segments. The transmitter also includes a secondary scrambling unit configured to provide a scrambled secondary synchronization signal, wherein scrambling agents for the first and second segments are derived from a primary synchronization sequence of the primary synchronization signal. The secondary scrambling unit is further configured to provide an additional scrambling of one of the first and second segments, wherein a second scrambling agent is derived from the remaining segment of a secondary synchronization sequence of the secondary synchronization signal. The transmitter further includes a transmit unit configured to transmit the primary synchronization signal and the scrambled secondary synchronization signal.

    摘要翻译: 本公开的实施例提供发射机,接收机和操作发射机和接收机的方法。 在一个实施例中,发射机包括配置成提供主同步信号和具有第一和第二段的辅同步信号的同步单元。 发射机还包括辅助加扰单元,其被配置为提供加扰的次同步信号,其中第一和第二段的加扰代码从主同步信号的主同步序列导出。 次加扰单元还被配置为提供第一和第二段中的一个的附加加扰,其中从副同步信号的辅同步序列的剩余段导出第二加扰代码。 发射机还包括被配置为发送主同步信号和加扰的次同步信号的发射单元。

    Power control with space time transmit diversity
    5.
    再颁专利
    Power control with space time transmit diversity 有权
    功率控制与时空发射分集

    公开(公告)号:USRE44858E1

    公开(公告)日:2014-04-22

    申请号:US13136059

    申请日:2011-07-20

    IPC分类号: H04B7/185

    摘要: A circuit is designed with a measurement circuit (432). The measurement circuit is coupled to receive a first input signal (903) from a first antenna (128) of a transmitter and coupled to receive a second input signal (913) from a second antenna (130) of the transmitter. Each of the first and second signals is transmitted at a first time. The measurement circuit produces an output signal corresponding to a magnitude of the first and second signals. A control circuit (430) is coupled to receive the output signal and a reference signal. The control circuit is arranged to produce a control signal at a second time in response to a comparison of the output signal and the reference signal.

    摘要翻译: 电路设计有测量电路(432)。 测量电路被耦合以从发射机的第一天线(128)接收第一输入信号(903),并被耦合以从发射机的第二天线(130)接收第二输入信号(913)。 第一和第二信号中的每一个在第一时间被发送。 测量电路产生对应于第一和第二信号的幅度的输出信号。 控制电路(430)被耦合以接收输出信号和参考信号。 控制电路被布置成响应于输出信号和参考信号的比较而在第二时间产生控制信号。

    Reverse Viterbi and forward serial list Viterbi decoding for FER
    6.
    发明授权
    Reverse Viterbi and forward serial list Viterbi decoding for FER 有权
    反向维特比和正向串行列表维特比解码为FER

    公开(公告)号:US08483327B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-07-09

    申请号:US12383154

    申请日:2009-03-20

    IPC分类号: H04L27/06

    摘要: A convolutionally encoded frame to be decoded includes a first portion of bits having additional error protection and another portion without additional error protection. The decoding of the frame involves reverse Viterbi decoding or Viterbi decoding on a reversed bit sequence followed by applying a serial list Viterbi algorithm to the first portion. The result is that the list of probable sequences have unique sets of bits in the first portion.

    摘要翻译: 要解码的卷积编码帧包括具有附加错误保护的第一部分位和不具有附加错误保护的另一部分。 该帧的解码涉及对反向比特序列的逆维特比解码或维特比解码,然后将序列表维特比算法应用于第一部分。 结果是可能序列的列表在第一部分中具有唯一的位集合。

    Multi-band OFDM communications system
    7.
    发明授权
    Multi-band OFDM communications system 有权
    多频带OFDM通信系统

    公开(公告)号:US08379506B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-02-19

    申请号:US12571735

    申请日:2009-10-01

    CPC分类号: H04L5/023

    摘要: System and method for providing multiple access in a multi-band, orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (multi-band-OFDM) communications system. A preferred embodiment comprises determining a transmission bandwidth to support a performance requirement and configuring transmission bands in the multi-band-OFDM communications system based upon the transmission bandwidth, wherein the transmission bands may be made up of smaller transmission bands bonded together. Further comprising initializing communications with the configured transmission bands. The use of bonded transmission bands can provide increased data rates and/or increased range performance.

    摘要翻译: 用于在多频带正交频分复用(multi-band-OFDM)通信系统中提供多址的系统和方法。 优选实施例包括确定传输带宽以支持性能要求,并且基于传输带宽来配置多频带OFDM通信系统中的传输频带,其中传输频带可以由较小的传输频带组合在一起。 还包括初始化与配置的传输频带的通信。 使用粘合的传输带可以提供增加的数据速率和/或增加的范围性能。

    BROADCAST TRANSMISSION FOR MULTI-TONE MASK MODE OPERATION
    8.
    发明申请
    BROADCAST TRANSMISSION FOR MULTI-TONE MASK MODE OPERATION 有权
    用于多音蒙版模式操作的广播传输

    公开(公告)号:US20130034110A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-02-07

    申请号:US13564440

    申请日:2012-08-01

    IPC分类号: H04B3/54

    摘要: A method of Multi-Tone Mask (MTM) mode communications in a PLC network including a first router associated with a plurality of nodes. A super-frame spanning a time period is received within the subnetwork. The super-frame includes beacon frames in beacon slots within a beacon period, with each beacon frame in one of N TMs, a contention access period (CAP) including a plurality of CAP slots provided for each TM, and a poll-based contention-free period (CFP). The beacon frames provide time assignments within the super-frame including time assignments for the CAP slots and for the CFP, and TM assignments for the TMs in the CAP slots. One of nodes, another router in the subnetwork, or a router in another subnetwork transmits a broadcast frame on the PLC channel. The first router forwards the broadcast frame on the PLC channel in each of the N TMs within the time period.

    摘要翻译: 一种在PLC网络中的多音调掩模(MTM)模式通信的方法,包括与多个节点相关联的第一路由器。 在子网内接收跨越时间段的超帧。 超帧包括在信标周期内的信标时隙中的信标帧,每个信标帧在N个TM之一中,竞争接入周期(CAP)包括为每个TM提供的多个CAP时隙,以及基于轮询的争用 - 免费期(CFP)。 信标帧提供超帧内的时间分配,包括CAP时隙的指定时间,以及CAP时隙中的CFP和TM分配。 节点之一,子网中的另一路由器或另一子网中的路由器在PLC信道上发送广播帧。 第一台路由器在该时间段内在每个N TM中的PLC信道上转发广播帧。

    PREAMBLE SEQUENCE EXTENSION
    9.
    发明申请
    PREAMBLE SEQUENCE EXTENSION 有权
    前导序列扩展

    公开(公告)号:US20120320996A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-12-20

    申请号:US13526227

    申请日:2012-06-18

    IPC分类号: H04B3/00

    摘要: A method of powerline communications between a plurality of nodes on a powerline communications (PLC) channel including a first node and a second node. At least one communication quality measure is determined for the PLC channel. Based on the communication quality measure, a preamble of a data frame is dynamically switched between a reference preamble having a reference symbol length including a reference number of syncP symbols and a reference number of syncM symbols and at least a first extended preamble having an extended symbol length that is greater than (>) the reference symbol length. The data frame is then transmitted on the PLC channel.

    摘要翻译: 一种在包括第一节点和第二节点的电力线通信(PLC)信道上的多个节点之间的电力线通信的方法。 为PLC通道确定至少一个通信质量度量。 基于通信质量测量,在具有包括参考数量的syncP符号的参考符号长度和参考数量的syncM符号的参考前同步码和至少具有扩展符号的第一扩展前同步码之间动态地切换数据帧的前导码 长度大于(>)参考符号长度。 然后在PLC通道上传输数据帧。

    Non-Beacon Network Communications Using Frequency Subbands
    10.
    发明申请
    Non-Beacon Network Communications Using Frequency Subbands 有权
    使用频率子带的非信标网络通信

    公开(公告)号:US20120275326A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-11-01

    申请号:US13457590

    申请日:2012-04-27

    IPC分类号: H04L12/26

    摘要: Systems and methods for designing, using, and/or implementing non-beacon network communications using frequency subbands are described. In various implementations, these systems and methods may be applicable to Power Line Communications (PLC). For example, a method may include transmitting a beacon request message over a given one of a plurality of frequency subbands, receiving a plurality of beacons in response to having transmitted the beacon request message, each of the plurality of beacons received over a respective one of the plurality of frequency subbands, and calculating a downlink quality report based, at least in part, upon the received beacons. The method may also include transmitting the downlink quality report over each of the plurality of frequency subbands and receiving a subband allocation command in response to having transmitted the downlink quality report, the subband allocation command indicating a downlink subband assignment and an uplink subband assignment.

    摘要翻译: 描述了使用频率子带设计,使用和/或实现非信标网络通信的系统和方法。 在各种实现中,这些系统和方法可以适用于电力线通信(PLC)。 例如,一种方法可以包括在多个频率子带中的给定的一个频带上传送信标请求消息,响应于已经发送了信标请求消息来接收多个信标,多个信标中的每一个在 所述多个频率子带,并且至少部分地基于所接收的信标来计算下行链路质量报告。 该方法还可以包括:响应于已经发送下行链路质量报告,指示下行链路子带分配的子带分配命令和上行链路子带分配,在多个频率子带中的每一个上发送下行链路质量报告,并接收子带分配命令。