Abstract:
An adaptive transmission scheme provides multiple levels of adaptation. At a first level, a selection is made between a limited feedback or open loop scheme and a rich feedback or closed loop scheme. At a second level of adaptation, a diversity mode is selected. Additional levels of adaptation could be employed.
Abstract:
A base station schedules one of a plurality of mobile terminals based on an expected SIR of an effective traffic channel associated with a non-scheduled mobile terminal. The expected SIR is generated by computing the expected SIR of a hypothesized traffic channel with a pre-filter adapted to the non-scheduled mobile terminal that would result if the non-scheduled mobile terminal was scheduled. A base station then schedules transmissions to the plurality of mobile terminals based on the computed expected SIR. The expected SIR may be computed so as to compensate for mismatch between the hypothesized traffic channel and a pilot channel associated with the non-scheduled mobile terminal. Alternatively, the expected SIR may be directly computed based on an estimate of the pre-filter of the hypothesized traffic channel.
Abstract:
Interference, such as inter-symbol interference, from a symbol of interest in a RAKE receiver (200) is reduced. The RAKE receiver comprises a plurality of RAKE fingers (220), a processor (230), and a combiner (232). The plurality of RAKE fingers despread symbols received over multiple paths of a multi-path channel. The processor determines cross-correlations between symbol waveforms from different symbols and multiple paths. The combiner combines the despread symbols using the cross-correlations to reduce interference from the symbol of interest.
Abstract:
An exemplary receiver demodulates an amplitude modulated data signal received in association with a reference signal, wherein a transmit power of the data signal is unknown to the receiver circuit, by determining a scaling factor based on the reference and data signals. Thus, an exemplary receiver estimates scaling factors indicative of the received amplitude of a data channel signal that is transmitted at a power different from that of the reference channel being used to estimate the radio channel properties. The scaling factor may be used to correct the amplitude of information symbols recovered from a received data signal such that they are moved closer in amplitude to intended points within an amplitude modulation constellation and/or to scale nominal points in a reference constellation used in demodulating the received symbols.
Abstract:
A method and system are described for performing fast and simple M-QAM detection on received signals, such as a 16-QAM signal, by estimating decision boundaries. Amplitude information is collected for in-phase an quadrature phase components of the received signal over a number of symbols. Average of the absolute value of the amplitude information of the in-phase components and of the quadrature phase components are determined over the number of symbols. The determined average absolute values of the in-phase and quadrature phase components provide a reference to produce the decision boundary estimates. estimates based on the estimated signal-to-interference ration (“SIR”) of the received signal to produce bias corrected decision boundary estimates.
Abstract:
Methods of recovering information encoded in a spread spectrum signal transmitted according to a spreading sequence in a communications medium are provided in which a spread spectrum signal is received from the communications medium and correlated with a spreading sequence to produce a plurality of time-offset correlations. Some of these time-offset correlations may be designed to cancel out known interfering signals. A subset of the plurality of time-offsets may then be selected, and corresponding traffic correlations may then be combined using a weighted combination to estimate information encoded in the transmitted spread spectrum signal. Receivers for implementing these methods are also provided.
Abstract:
A spread spectrum signal is processed by correlating the spread spectrum signal with a spreading sequence at a first plurality of correlation times to produce a first plurality of time-offset correlations. The first plurality of time-offset correlations is processed to produce a first symbol representation for a symbol. A first quality is determined for the first symbol representation. Responsive to the determined first quality, it is determined whether to further process the first symbol representation or to process a second symbol representation for the symbol generated from the spread spectrum signal. The first quality may be determined, for example, by decoding the first symbol representations to generate a decoding metric or error check indicator, such as a CRC result. The symbol representations may be generated and/or evaluated for quality in a serial fashion or a parallel fashion.
Abstract:
Correlation times for a RAKE receiver are determined from time differentials between multipath components of a received signal based on correlation metrics, preferably signal strength measurements, associated with the multipath components. According to various embodiments of the present invention, selection strategies are employed in which "desired signal collecting" and "interference collecting" correlation times may be selected using average optimal (AO) or instantaneous optimal (IO) selection criteria. These criteria may include, for example, thresholds for signal strengths associated with multipath components of a signal at the correlation times, where the signal strengths may include absolute or relative measures of signal power or signal to noise ratio. According to alternative embodiments, correlation times are selected using an inverse filter of an estimated channel response. Related apparatus is also described.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a RAKE receiver of a CDMA system using IRC, the receiver receiving a radio signal by using at least two antenna branches (232A, 232B). In accordance with the invention, a RAKE finger (270A, 270B) comprises: a weighting coefficient part (272) for forming weighting coefficients maximizing the Signal-to-Interference-and-Noise Ratio (SINR) for each antenna branch (232A, 232B); a multiplier (284A, 284B) for multiplying a pilot part (274A), despread by a despreader (276A, 276B) in each antenna branch (232A, 232B), by a weighting coefficient; a multiplier (284C, 284D) for multiplying a data part (274B), despread by a despreader (276C, 276D) in each antenna branch (232A, 232B), by a weighting coefficient; an antenna branch summer (278A) for combining the despread pilot parts (274A), received via the separate antenna branches (232A, 232B) and multiplied by the weighting coefficient, to one pilot signal; an antenna branch summer (278B) for combining the despread data parts (274B), received via the separate antenna branches (232A, 232B) and multiplied by the weighting coefficient, to one data signal. In addition, the receiver comprises a RAKE finger summer (280B) for combining the data signals of the RAKE fingers (270A, 270B) operating by different delays to a sum data signal representing the received bits.
Abstract:
A multiple access communications system and method using Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) comprises coding information signals with CDMA codewords to be transmitted over a common frequency spectrum, time compressing the CDMA codewords for transmission only during allocated timeslots, activating a receiver only during the allocated timeslots to receive and decompress the time compressed CDMA codewords, and decoding the decompressed CDMA codewords to recover the information signals.