Abstract:
A method for estimation of APP symbol probabilities in a Soft-input, soft-output (SISO) detector through the use of a depth first tree search to perform the list sphere detection step is disclosed. The method includes a depth first tree search for symbol vectors with a path metric value less than a predetermined search threshold, where the tree comprises a root node and one level for each of the sources, and each node having a branch for each of the possible symbols in the symbol set for the source at a subsequent level of the tree. The method includes estimation of the APP value of at least one of the symbols during the search of the tree which can remove the need for storing a list of candidate symbols. This method has application in iteratively decoded systems and for Multiple-Input, Multiple Output (MIMO) receivers. A best first enumeration method is also described for identifying and enumerating a set of valid child nodes during the depth first tree search, as well as a new list-sphere detector that finds all terms have metrics less than (lambda plus epsilon).
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method, apparatus and system for reducing peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR) of an error encoded signal. The method involves introducing at least one error in the error coded signal such that the PAPR of the error coded signal with the introduced error is less than the PAPR of the error coded signal.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus are described for processing data in a wireless communication network. Iterative estimation techniques are used to enable tracking of time-varying communication channels. A signal is transmitted over a channel in the network, the signal comprising a sequence of symbols carried on a plurality of sub-carriers. Boot-up estimator (304) estimates, in a time domain, parameters of a model of the channel based on the received signal. A domain converter (206) transforms at least one of the estimated parameters from the time domain to provide at least one transformed parameter in a second domain. An equalizer (210) and decoder (212) determine estimates of symbols from the received signal using the at least one transformed parameter, and tracking estimator (314) updates the estimated model parameters during reception of the signal using at least one estimated symbol.
Abstract:
Described herein is a method and system for estimating a time-varying multipath communication channel (102). The system comprises a receiver (104) for receiving a signal comprising a data packet transmitted over the multipath communication channel (102). The system also comprises a frequency-domain channel estimator (110) that generates a frequency-domain channel estimate (112) based on the received signal. The system further comprises a time-domain channel modeller (114) that receives the frequency-domain channel estimate (112) and generates an estimate of parameters in a time-domain model of the multipath communication channel (102). The model characterises the multipath communication channel (102) as a delay line with a plurality of taps, each tap having tap parameters defining a delay, a Doppler and a gain for the tap. The tap parameters are constant over the data packet.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus are described for improving receiver performance in a multicarrier communication network in which an encoded symbol (250) is transmitted over a transmission channel (20) in the communications system. A model of the transmission channel (20) is estimated (718, 760), said model characterising an effect of intercarrier interference on at least one carrier in the multicarrier system. The received symbol (250) is decoded (720, 762) using the estimated model to remove a predicted effect of intercarrier interference. A pre-processor (40) is also described for operation in conjunction with a communications receiver (30) in the network. The pre-processor (40) includes a channel estimator (42) operable to estimate at least one feature of the communication channel based on a received signal. The pre-processor (40) modifies the received signal dependent on the at least one estimated feature and provides the modified signal to the communications receiver (30).
Abstract:
A data processing device (100, 300) is described forming part of a receiver for a multicarrier communications system. The data processing device is configured to process at least one observed symbol to generate an information bit estimate for the symbol, and includes a channel prediction stage configured to receive an observed symbol and at least one feedback signal representing an estimate of a transmitted symbol and to generate a channel prediction. At least one initial processing stream (104) is configured to process the observed symbol on the basis of a channel prediction calculated at a respective time by the channel prediction stage and to output a signal representing an estimate of a transmitted symbol corresponding to the observed symbol for feed back into the channel prediction stage. A subsequent processing stream (102) is configured to process the observed symbol on the basis of a channel prediction calculated at a second time by the channel prediction stage at least partly on the basis of an output of at least one initial processing stream in respect of the observed symbol, to generate an information bit estimate corresponding to the observed symbol.
Abstract:
The present application discloses a number of inventions directed to method(s), apparatus and/or networks and systems adapted to track time varying channels, adapted to synchronise packets arriving at a receiver, adapted to correlate a received signal, adapted to manage digital resources, adapted to receive a signal and/or adapted to enable communication in a wireless packet based communications network.
Abstract:
A method and system are described for estimating an environment surrounding a wireless communication system, the environment including at least one inflector that inflects transmitted signals. An observation generator (300) receives an input signal transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver via a wireless communication channel and also receives system state information pertaining to at least one of the receiver, the transmitter and the inflector. An observation processor (302) uses observations (303) from the observation generator (300) to estimate at least one property of the inflector based on the received input signal and the system state information.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an iterative decoding circuit for a wireless multiuser communications receiver comprising a first signal processing means for receiving at least one received signal, said first signal processing means comprising at least two linear iterative filters such that the first linear iterative filter provides an estimate of a selected received signal to an estimated signal output and a second linear iterative filter provides estimates of at least one other received signal, delayed by one iteration cycle, to an input of said first linear iterative filter, a second signal processing means for receiving the estimated signal output of the first linear iterative filter and providing a further received signal estimate to the input of the first signal processing means in a succeeding iteration cycle of the decoding circuit. The application also includes a method of communication with packet sample hypothesis and a method of communicating using estimating time varying channel impairments.
Abstract:
The invention is an iterative signal processing arrangement having one or more pairs of first and second signal processing components. These pairs are in iterative configuration with each of the first signal processing components having as its input one or more received signals dependent upon one or more transmitted signals. For each said signal processing component pair the output of said first signal processing component is an estimate of a characteristic of a selected transmitted signal based on the current and one or more previous input signals received by said first signal processing component. This estimate is input to said corresponding second signal processing component which provides a further estimate of said selected transmitted signal. The outputs of all said second components of respective pairs are input to their corresponding first components in a succeeding iteration cycle.