公开(公告)号：US09253783B2

公开(公告)日：2016-02-02

申请号：US13403683

申请日：2012-02-23

Applicant: Yi-Pin Eric Wang ,  Anders Wallén ,  Stephen Grant

Inventor： Yi-Pin Eric Wang ,  Anders Wallén ,  Stephen Grant

IPC: H04W72/04

CPC classification number: H04W72/0486 ,  H04W72/0453

Abstract: The method an apparatus described herein manages uplink resources to increase spectral efficiency and system capacity. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a base station may be assigned two or more downlink carriers for downlink transmission and two or more corresponding uplink carriers. In a multi-carrier mode, the base station may transmit signals on two or more downlink carriers to the same mobile terminal, and receive signals from the mobile terminal on one of the paired uplink terminals. The uplink carriers can be operated at different interference levels and the uplink traffic can be divided between the available uplink carriers based on the type of traffic and/or data transmission parameters. The mobile terminals may also be allowed to switch between the uplink carriers to improve overall efficiency.

Abstract translation: 本文描述的装置的方法管理上行链路资源以提高频谱效率和系统容量。 根据本发明的一个实施例，可以为基站分配用于下行链路传输的两个或更多个下行链路载波和两个或更多个对应的上行链路载波。 在多载波模式中，基站可以在两个或多个下行链路载波上发送信号到同一个移动终端，并且在一个上行链路终端中的一个上接收来自移动终端的信号。 上行链路载波可以以不同的干扰级别操作，并且可以基于业务类型和/或数据传输参数在可用的上行链路载波之间划分上行链路业务。 还可以允许移动终端在上行链路载波之间切换以提高整体效率。

公开(公告)号：US08761323B2

公开(公告)日：2014-06-24

申请号：US13333478

申请日：2011-12-21

Applicant: Yi-Pin Eric Wang ,  Gregory Bottomley ,  Jung-Fu Cheng ,  Stephen Grant ,  Ning He ,  Niklas Johansson ,  Cagatay Konuskan

Inventor： Yi-Pin Eric Wang ,  Gregory Bottomley ,  Jung-Fu Cheng ,  Stephen Grant ,  Ning He ,  Niklas Johansson ,  Cagatay Konuskan

IPC: H04B1/10

CPC classification number: H04W72/1278 ,  H04B1/71075 ,  H04B1/712 ,  H04W72/082

Abstract: In a receive node of a wireless network, an iterative multi-user multi-stage interference cancellation receiver is used. After each stage of interference cancellation, interference characteristics change. An adaptive strategy is used in which after each stage of interference cancellation, impairment covariance is parametrically updated and combining weights of the receiver are adapted to reflect the updated impairment covariance.

Abstract translation: 在无线网络的接收节点中，使用迭代多用户多级干扰消除接收机。 在干扰消除的每个阶段之后，干扰特性发生变化。 使用自适应策略，其中在干扰消除的每个阶段之后，对损伤协方差进行参数更新，并且接收机的组合权重被适配以反映更新的损害协方差。

公开(公告)号：US08743987B2

公开(公告)日：2014-06-03

申请号：US13050210

申请日：2011-03-17

Applicant: Yi-Pin Eric Wang

Inventor： Yi-Pin Eric Wang

IPC: H04L27/06 ,  H04L27/01 ,  H04B1/10

CPC classification number: H04L25/08 ,  H04L25/03012 ,  H04L25/03159 ,  H04L25/03171 ,  H04L25/03184 ,  H04L25/03312 ,  H04L25/03331 ,  H04L2025/03414 ,  H04L2025/03426

Abstract: A receiver is configured to perform symbol detection based on a total frequency domain received signal that comprises contribution from a block of time domain symbols. The receiver comprises electronic circuitry operate to divide the block into plural sub-blocks, and for each sub-block, to jointly detect the symbols of the sub-block while treating symbols of the block which are outside of the sub-block as noise.

Abstract translation: 接收机被配置为基于包括来自时域符号块的贡献的总频域接收信号执行符号检测。 接收机包括电子电路，用于将块划分为多个子块，并且对于每个子块，共同检测子块的符号，同时将处于子块外部的块的符号作为噪声进行处理。

公开(公告)号：US08724741B2

公开(公告)日：2014-05-13

申请号：US12572680

申请日：2009-10-02

Applicant: Gregory E. Bottomley ,  Yi-Pin Eric Wang

Inventor： Gregory E. Bottomley ,  Yi-Pin Eric Wang

IPC: H04L27/00 ,  H04L27/06 ,  H03D1/06

CPC classification number: H04B17/309 ,  H04B17/26 ,  H04L2025/03426

Abstract: The quality of a received signal in a non-linear receiver is estimated using a coupling matrix G or Q that describes the interaction of symbols in the received signal with other symbols and/or how the impairment (noise and interference) interacts in the received signal. The coupling matrix is also useful for joint detection. The signal quality estimate may include, e.g., the minimum eigenvalue, and other functions, such as the determinant and trace of the coupling matrix. When G or Q varies with each block, as in CDMA systems employing longcode scrambling, a representative matrix can be used, such as a matrix of RMS values or average magnitudes of real and imaginary components. The signal quality estimate can be expressed as a bit error rate (BER).

Abstract translation: 使用描述接收信号中的符号与其他符号的相互作用和/或接收信号中的损害（噪声和干扰）如何相互作用的耦合矩阵G或Q来估计非线性接收机中的接收信号的质量 。 耦合矩阵对于联合检测也是有用的。 信号质量估计可以包括例如最小特征值和其他函数，诸如耦合矩阵的行列式和轨迹。 当G或Q随每个块变化时，如在使用长码扰码的CDMA系统中，可以使用代表性矩阵，例如RMS值矩阵或实部和虚部分量的平均幅度。 信号质量估计可以表示为误码率（BER）。

公开(公告)号：US08718199B2

公开(公告)日：2014-05-06

申请号：US13050433

申请日：2011-03-17

Applicant: Yi-Pin Eric Wang ,  Gregory E. Bottomley

Inventor： Yi-Pin Eric Wang ,  Gregory E. Bottomley

IPC: H04L27/06

CPC classification number: H04L25/08 ,  H04L25/03012 ,  H04L25/03159 ,  H04L25/03171 ,  H04L25/03184 ,  H04L25/03312 ,  H04L25/03331 ,  H04L2025/03414 ,  H04L2025/03426

Abstract: A receiver comprises plural receive antennas and electronic circuitry. The plural receive antennas are configured to receive, on plural subcarriers transmitted over a radio interface, a frequency domain signal that comprises contribution from a block of time domain symbols. The electronic circuitry is configured or operable to perform symbol detection of time domain symbols comprising the block by performing a multi-stage joint detection procedure comprising plural stages, and thus serves as a detector (40). For a first stage the block is divided into a first number of sub-blocks each having a sub-block first size. For a second stage the block is divided into a second number of sub-blocks each having a sub-block second size, the sub-block second size being greater than the sub-block first size. For each stage a detector (40) formulates frequency domain combining weights and uses the frequency domain combining weights for combining multiple receive versions of each subcarrier to provide candidate symbol combination values for symbols in each sub-block of the respective stage. For the second stage the detector (40) is further configured to use the candidate symbol combination values of the first stage to formulate joint hypotheses to serve as candidates for the joint detection operation of the second stage.

Abstract translation: 接收机包括多个接收天线和电子电路。 多个接收天线被配置为在由无线电接口发送的多个子载波上接收包括来自时域符号块的贡献的频域信号。 电子电路被配置或可操作以通过执行包括多个级的多级联合检测过程来执行包括该块的时域符号的符号检测，从而用作检测器（40）。 对于第一阶段，块被分成具有子块第一大小的第一数量的子块。 对于第二级，块被分成第二数量的子块，每个子块具有子块的第二尺寸，子块的第二尺寸大于子块的第一尺寸。 对于每个阶段，检测器（40）制定频域组合权重并使用频域组合权重来组合每个子载波的多个接收版本，以为相应级的每个子块中的符号提供候选符号组合值。 对于第二级，检测器（40）还被配置为使用第一级的候选符号组合值来形成联合假设以用作第二级的联合检测操作的候选。

公开(公告)号：US20140029650A1

公开(公告)日：2014-01-30

申请号：US13557306

申请日：2012-07-25

Applicant: Chester Sungchung Park ,  Yi-Pin Eric Wang

Inventor： Chester Sungchung Park ,  Yi-Pin Eric Wang

IPC: H04L29/02 ,  H04B1/38

CPC classification number: H04B7/0456 ,  H04B7/0604

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for improving a precoder selection process in a wireless communications system. In a normal precoder selection process, a precoder is selected from a codebook based on channel state information estimated from received reference signals. In between two received reference signals, a subset of precoders is cycled through and each precoder in the subset is iteratively selected for use by a transmitter to precode transmit signals. The subset of precoders may be adaptively modified based on predefined criteria.

Abstract translation: 公开了用于改进无线通信系统中的预编码器选择过程的方法和装置。 在通常的预编码器选择处理中，基于从接收到的参考信号估计的信道状态信息，从码本中选择预编码器。 在两个接收到的参考信号之间，预编码器的子集被循环遍历并且子集中的每个预编码器被迭代地选择以供发射机用于对发射信号进行预编码。 预编码器的子集可以基于预定标准自适应地修改。

公开(公告)号：US20130301686A1

公开(公告)日：2013-11-14

申请号：US13468680

申请日：2012-05-10

Applicant: Andres Reial ,  Stephen Grant ,  Michael Samuel Bebawy ,  Yi-Pin Eric Wang

Inventor： Andres Reial ,  Stephen Grant ,  Michael Samuel Bebawy ,  Yi-Pin Eric Wang

IPC: H04B1/7105

CPC classification number: H04B1/7105 ,  H04B1/7097 ,  H04B1/71052 ,  H04B1/71057 ,  H04L25/03331

Abstract: A CDMA multi-code joint demodulation solution in which impairment suppression and channel matching operations are performed prior to despreading. Embodiments include a linear front end that performs chip-level suppression of signal components that are not included in a subsequent joint demodulation process. The pre-processing stage also carries out metric preparation and provides a vector decision statistic that is processed by a joint demodulation stage to extract per-code soft values for the symbols of interest in the received signal. Both code-specific and code-averaged versions of the linear processing are disclosed, as are several front-end configurations with equivalent performance, but different complexity trade-offs. These new approaches use a block formulation, requiring a set of input chip samples as an input, and perform all operations as matrix-vector multiplications, which is an approach amenable to efficient DSP or hardware implementation.

Abstract translation: 一种CDMA解码解码方案，其中在解扩之前执行损伤抑制和信道匹配操作。 实施例包括执行不包括在随后的联合解调处理中的信号分量的芯片级抑制的线性前端。 预处理阶段还执行度量准备，并提供由联合解调级处理以提取接收信号中感兴趣符号的每码软值的向量决策统计量。 公开了线性处理的代码特定和代码平均版本，以及具有相同性能但是不同复杂性权衡的若干前端配置。 这些新方法使用块公式，需要一组输入芯片样本作为输入，并执行所有操作作为矩阵向量乘法，这是一种适合高效DSP或硬件实现的方法。

公开(公告)号：US20130279559A1

公开(公告)日：2013-10-24

申请号：US13454919

申请日：2012-04-24

Applicant: Michael Samuel Bebawy ,  Fredrik Huss ,  Yi-Pin Eric Wang

Inventor： Michael Samuel Bebawy ,  Fredrik Huss ,  Yi-Pin Eric Wang

IPC: H04B1/10 ,  H04L27/01 ,  H04L27/00

CPC classification number: H04L25/03012 ,  H04L1/005 ,  H04L25/03171 ,  H04L25/0328 ,  H04L27/38

Abstract: In one aspect, the present invention improves Turbo equalization and/or soft interference cancellation processing in communication receivers by providing an efficient and accurate technique to compute the second moment of a received symbol, e.g., an interfering symbol, as a function of the expected bit values of only those bits in the symbol that are magnitude-controlling bits according to a defined modulation constellation. Advantageously, the expected bit values in at least one embodiment are computed using a LUT that maps bit LLRs to corresponding hyperbolic tangent function values. Further, the expected symbol value is computed as a linear function of terms comprising the expected bit values and the soft symbol variance is efficiently computed from the second moment and the expected symbol value squared. This simplified processing reduces receiver complexity, particularly in the context of modulation constellations having non-constant magnitudes, and thus saves power and/or improves design economics.

Abstract translation: 在一个方面，本发明通过提供有效和准确的技术来计算接收符号的第二时刻（例如干扰符号）来改善通信接收机中的Turbo均衡和/或软干扰消除处理，作为预期位的函数 根据定义的调制星座，只有符号中那些位是幅度控制位的值。 有利地，使用将位LLR映射到对应的双曲正切函数值的LUT来计算至少一个实施例中的预期位值。 此外，预期符号值被计算为包括预期位值的项的线性函数，并且从第二时刻有效地计算软符号方差，并且预期符号值平方。 这种简化的处理降低了接收机的复杂度，特别是在具有非恒定幅度的调制星座的上下文中，从而节省功率和/或提高了设计经济性。

公开(公告)号：US20130237212A1

公开(公告)日：2013-09-12

申请号：US13414932

申请日：2012-03-08

Applicant: Ali S. Khayrallah ,  Yi-Pin Eric Wang

Inventor： Ali S. Khayrallah ,  Yi-Pin Eric Wang

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04W24/00

CPC classification number: H04B7/0626 ,  H04B7/022 ,  H04B7/0434 ,  H04B7/0452 ,  H04B7/0663 ,  H04B17/373 ,  H04L1/0019 ,  H04L25/03898 ,  H04L25/03949

Abstract: A system and method in which a base station treats the Channel State Information (CSI) from wireless terminals as only partially-stale, and exploits this partially-stale CSI to predict the current channel from old estimates of the channel. The predicted channel is then used to design a precoder. The base station shapes the transmitted signal with the precoder so as to match it as closely as possible to the current channel. Particular embodiments thus combine the benefits of the stale feedback scheme with precoding to match the channel. Consequently, the signal received at a terminal is better conditioned, thereby providing a greater overall boost in performance of the communication arrangement between the base station and the terminal. The usage of partially-stale CSI can be important for dense networks with a large number of simple terminals.

Abstract translation: 一种基站将无线终端的信道状态信息（CSI）仅处于部分状态的系统和方法，并利用该部分陈旧的CSI来预测来自信道的旧估计的当前信道。 然后预测的通道用于设计预编码器。 基站用预编码器对发射信号进行整形，使其尽可能接近当前信道。 因此，特定的实施例将陈旧反馈方案的优点与预编码相结合以匹配信道。 因此，在终端处接收的信号被更好地调节，从而对基站和终端之间的通信装置的性能提供更大的整体提升。 部分陈旧的CSI的使用对于具有大量简单终端的密集网络来说可能是重要的。

公开(公告)号：US08467439B2

公开(公告)日：2013-06-18

申请号：US13117583

申请日：2011-05-27

Applicant: Yi-Pin Eric Wang ,  Tore Mikael André ,  Jinliang Huang

Inventor： Yi-Pin Eric Wang ,  Tore Mikael André ,  Jinliang Huang

IPC: H03K5/159

CPC classification number: H04L25/03171 ,  H04L25/03012 ,  H04L2025/03726

Abstract: At a node of a wireless network, equalization operations performed on signals received from a transmitter are adaptively switched to be equalized by an iterative turbo receiver or a linear receiver. A theoretical expression of a post-equalization SINR of a capacity-achieving receiver is used to estimate the post-equalization SINR performance of the turbo receiver. The estimated post-equalization SINR performance is then used as a basis to determine whether the received signal is to be equalized by the turbo receiver or the linear receiver.

Abstract translation: 在无线网络的节点处，对从发射机接收的信号执行的均衡操作被自适应地切换以由迭代turbo接收机或线性接收机进行均衡。 使用容量实现接收机的后均衡SINR的理论表达式来估计turbo接收机的均衡后SINR性能。 然后，将估计的均衡后SINR性能用作基础，以确定接收到的信号是否被turbo接收机或线性接收机均衡。