Abstract:
Method, apparatus, and data packet format to implement transmit diversity in a multicarrier environment is disclosed. For diversity transmission operations, space frequency encoding techniques are employed creating distinguishable first and second time domain signals from a multicarrier frequency domain symbol bearing data of interest, which are then broadcast in parallel over first and second transmission units respectively. For diversity reception operations, complementary space frequency decoding is used to recover a corrected multicarrier frequency domain symbol from a time domain signal containing either this symbol, a space frequency modified symbol based on the multicarrier symbol, or a possible partial/complete combination of both. The data packet format includes portions defining a transmission diversity semaphore, a preamble enabling training of a receiver receiving the data packet, and a payload.
Abstract:
A system including a circuit to compensate for sampling phase jitter. The system includes a channel estimator to determine, based on training symbols in a preamble of a data packet received via a communication channel, an estimate of the communication channel and a carrier frequency associated with the communication channel. The circuit compensates, based on the determined carrier frequency, a phase of the estimate of the communication channel to adjust for a carrier frequency offset associated with the communication channel, and, based on a data rate at which the data packet was received via the communication channel, selectively compensates the estimate of the communication channel for sampling phase jitter.
Abstract:
A system including a channel estimator configured to generate an estimate of a communication channel based on a data packet received via the communication channel. A circuit is configured to determine a data rate at which the data packet was received via the communication channel, determine whether the data rate at which the data packet was received via the communication channel is greater than a threshold, and selectively compensate the channel estimate generated by the channel estimator for sampling phase jitter based on the determination of whether the data rate at which the data packet was received via the communication channel is greater than the threshold.
Abstract:
Systems and techniques relating to wireless communication are described. A described technique includes transmitting a first signal wirelessly to a wireless communication device in accordance with a first transmit mode that is selected from a plurality of transmit modes; receiving a shortlist from the wireless communication device, the shortlist identifying a subset of the transmit modes, the subset of the transmit modes including two or more modes that are different from the first transmit mode; selecting a second transmit mode from the shortlist; transmitting a second signal wirelessly to the wireless communication device in accordance with the second transmit mode; and selectively cycling through any remaining modes of the shortlist based on a lack of reception of an acknowledgement to the second signal. The wireless communication device can be configured to generate the shortlist based on a channel quality analysis of a received version of the first signal.
Abstract:
A device includes circuitry configured to receive orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols of a training sequence via two or more receive antennas, and circuitry configured to correlate training samples of the OFDM symbols received via the two or more receive antennas to generate a correlation result, estimate a frequency offset using an angle of the correlation result, and correct samples of training symbols in at least one multiple-in-multiple-out (MIMO)-OFDM frame using the frequency offset.
Abstract:
A transmitter including a transmit section and a frame formatter. The transmit section is to generate a stream of data to be transmitted using a plurality of antennas and separate the stream of data into a plurality of substreams corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of antennas. The frame formatter is to form respective frames of data from the plurality of substreams. Each of the frames of data includes a short preamble including short training symbols, a long preamble including long training symbols, and a signal field indicating a quantity of the plurality of antennas. The transmit section is further to transmit the frames of data using respective ones of the plurality of antennas.
Abstract:
Techniques and systems for rate adaption in wireless systems are disclosed. A disclosed technique includes generating confidence measures for a plurality of data rates based at least on a first indicator and a second indicator, the first indicator corresponding to packet loss associated with packets transmitted by a device at a first data rate that is selected from the plurality of data rates, and the second indicator corresponding to one or more signal quality values associated with one or more packets received by the device; selecting, from the plurality of data rates, a second data rate based at least on the confidence measures; and transmitting one or more additional packets at the second data rate.
Abstract:
A system includes a mapping device. The mapping device groups encoded bits of OFDM symbols into first groups. For each of the first groups, the mapping device maps adjacent bits onto non-adjacent subcarriers of multiple subcarriers and in an alternating manner onto bits of a signal constellation such that: every other one of the adjacent bits are mapped to first bits on the signal constellation; and bits other than the every other one of the adjacent bits are mapped to second bits on the signal constellation. Each of the first groups has a corresponding complex number. The mapping device: groups predetermined numbers of the first groups into second groups, where each of the second groups corresponds to one of the OFDM symbols; and maps each of the second groups to one of the multiple subcarriers such that the multiple subcarriers are modulated based on the complex numbers.
Abstract:
A device includes circuitry configured to receive orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols of a training sequence, and circuitry configured to correlate training samples of the OFDM symbols to determine a frequency offset and configured to provide the determined frequency offset to perform frequency offset compensation for at least one multiple-in-multiple-out (MIMO)-OFDM frame to correct samples of training symbols in the at least one MIMO-OFDM frame. The correlated training samples correspond to a number of receive antennas through which the training sequence was received.
Abstract:
Systems and techniques relating to wireless signal processing. A described technique includes receiving a signal, having subcarriers, over a wireless channel formed by a number-of-receive-antennas and a number-of-transmit-antennas; determining a signal quality measure of a received signal having subcarriers, the signal quality measure being based on channel gain matrices corresponding respectively to the subcarriers of the received signal, the channel gain matrices having dimensions of the number-of-receive-antennas by the number-of-transmit-antennas; determining a channel quality measure of the received signal that measures a frequency selectivity of the wireless channel; determining a data rate of information transmission over the wireless channel based on the signal quality measure and the channel quality measure, the signal quality measure serving as a primary determinant of the data rate and the channel quality measure serves as a secondary determinant of the data rate; and transmitting information over the wireless channel in accordance with the data rate.