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A low complexity adaptive equalizer for use in U.S. digital cellular radios demodulates .pi./4-shifted differentially encoded quadrature phase shift keyed (DQPSK) encoding in the presence of intersymbol interference (ISI) with reduced decoding complexity by employing an estimated received constellation which takes into account channel changes over time and ISI. The complexity is reduced by tracking a reduced number of estimated reference symbol constellation points and taking advantage of the geometry to estimate the remaining symbol constellation points. Branch metrics are also determined with a reduced number of computations.
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Systems and methods for frequency acquisition and channel tracking in a direct sequence code division multiple access system are described. Frequency estimates are prepared and refined, which estimates are also used in the channel tracking process.
摘要:
A low complexity adaptive equalizer for use in U.S. digital cellular radios demodulates .pi./4-shifted differentially encoded quadrature phase shift keyed (DQPSK) encoding in the presence of intersymbol interference (ISI) with reduced decoding complexity by employing an estimated received constellation which takes into account channel changes over time and ISI. The decoding complexity is reduced by tracking a reduced number of estimated reference symbol constellation points and taking advantage of the geometry to estimate the remaining symbol constellation points. Reference symbol constellation points are updated directly to compensate for changes in the channel, instead of determining channel impulse response (CIR) coefficients, and convolving the CIR coefficients with received symbols to determine new reference symbol constellation points.
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A method and apparatus for digital radio communication employs separation of a frame of data to be transmitted into key bits, critical bits and unprotected bits. The key bits are processed to provide parity bits. The parity bits, and key bits are convolutionally encoded using a tail-biting scheme and merged with unprotected bits, and then transmitted. At the receiver, the decoder splits the received data into convolutionally encoded bits and unprotected bits, and trellis decodes the convolutionally encoded bits into a number of possible paths through a trellis using a generalized Viterbi algorithm. The tail-biting scheme reduces the number of bits that must be transmitted. Paths having errors in the key bits are rejected, and the path having the best metric without key bit errors is used in decoding the transmitted information. In the event that there is no such path, a previously selected path is substituted and decoded.
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A Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) radio system achieves synchronization by performing a two-step synchronization. A simplified frame/slot synchronization is followed by a symbol synchronization of higher accuracy. This symbol timing is passed to a frequency offset unit which determines the amount of frequency drift between the transmitter and receiver and compensates for the frequency drift. This results in improved receiver performance for the TDMA digital radio system.
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Frame/slot synchronization is applied to a received Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) signal and a temporal position of a reference feature is acquired, such as a synchronizing bit stream or preamble, associated with a desired time slot. The desired time slot is but one of a plurality of time slots that comprise a frame. Verification that the acquired temporal position corresponds to the desired time slot is performed by repetitively estimating a temporal position of the reference feature in a subsequent frame and sampling the subsequent frame at the estimated temporal position to determine if the reference feature is present. The temporal position of the reference feature of the desired time slot relative to the frame is maintained over a plurality of received frames.
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A method of estimating the quality of a communication channel from a differential phase angle between a received signal and the corresponding transmitted phase angle employs determining a signal to impairment ratio (SIR) as an indicator of channel state information (CSI). A maximum likelihood estimation procedure is employed to calculate this CSI metric as a function of the differential phase angle between the received signal and transmitted signal. An alternate embodiment employs a estimation that incorporates average SIR information for a Rayleigh fading channel. Since CSI is derived from the phase angle of the received signal, and does not require signal amplitude information, it is attractive for use with differential detectors, phase-locked loops (PLLs) and hard-limited signals. The CSI provided can be used for implementing post detection selection diversity, by selecting the signal from a plurality of antennae which has the best SIR.
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An error control decoder receives a received vector to be decoded. The decoder then calculates, as an error estimate, the Euclidean distance between a codeword choice and the received vector. The output error estimate is appropriately scaled and quantized in accordance with the particular code being processed by the decoder. The efficient Conway-Sloane algorithm is extended for use in connection with the decoding of shortened Golay codes. A modification is made to the generator matrix for the Golay code to produce a modified generator matrix that is unique for each shortened code. The modified generator matrix is then implemented in the Conway-Sloane algorithm to identify the best codeword for conversion to its corresponding information bits for output.
摘要:
A low complexity adaptive equalizer for use in U.S. digital cellular radios demodulates .pi./4-shifted differentially encoded quadrature phase shift keyed (DQPSK) encoding in the presence of intersymbol interference (ISI) with reduced decoding complexity by employing an estimated received constellation which takes into account channel changes over time and ISI. The decoding complexity is reduced by tracking a reduced number of estimated reference constellation points and taking advantage of the geometry to estimate the remaining symbol constellation points. A slot of symbols is decoded, employing unique filtering, in segments from the beginning in a forward direction and from the end in a reverse direction meeting at a fade point. This isolates a fade and allows the equalizer to perform more reliably.
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A digital time division multiple access (TDMA) radio communications system employs a digital information source for providing digital information, a transmitter for transmitting encoded digital information in a radio-frequency (RF) signal to a receiver which demodulates the encoded symbols into digital information to be utilized by an output device. The receiver, synchronizes, compensates for frequency drift, samples and divides the samples into halfslots of samples. The halfslots are subdivided into subslots numbered from 1 to N, where N represents the last received subslot. Subslots 1 and N are demodulated into digital information in a forward and reverse direction, respectively with metrics calculated. If the metrics indicate a signal with a larger signal-to-noise ratio from subslot N, subslot N-1 is demodulated in a reverse sense with another reverse metric calculated, and vice versa. This process of extending demodulation in the direction of greater signal strength is repeated until all subslots in the slot have been demodulated. A second embodiment passes through all subslots in a forward and reverse direction calculating subslot metrics. The subslot metrics are summed into a halfslot metrics. The best halfslot metric indicates the sense of demodulation of each subslot. The digital information is then dumped in the proper order and sense to an output device which utilizes the digital information resulting in increased performance during fade periods.