Abstract:
Aspects of an apparatus and method of wireless communication include detecting, by a base node, at least one path of a transmission corresponding to received samples from a user equipment. Further, the aspects include assigning a bank of correlators around the detected at least one path, and estimating a composite channel impulse response at an output of each correlator of the bank of correlators. Further, the aspects include refining noisy channel estimates, and reconstructing a received signal from the user equipment based on the refined noisy channel estimate of the composite channel impulse response. Additionally, the aspects include canceling the reconstructed received signal from the received samples
Abstract:
A system and method for estimating the earliest signal arrival in a wireless communication system, is presented herein. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, the system includes a base station that transmits a plurality of pilot signals and a mobile station configured to receive a plurality of signals corresponding to one of the transmitted pilot signals. The mobile station includes a receiver containing a searcher correlating mechanism and at least one finger correlating mechanism. The mobile station receiver detects the arrival times and energy levels of the received signals and constructs a searcher histogram and a finger histogram representing an arrival time distribution of samples corresponding to the received signals. The mobile station then generates a delay index for each of the estimated early signal arrivals and forwards the delay indices to the base station or a position determination entity to select the minimum delay index corresponding to the earliest signal arrival.
Abstract:
A direct sequence spread spectrum receiver for operating in a multipath fading channel comprises a rake receiver having plural rake fingers. Each rake finger demodulates a received signal from one of plural channel paths. The output of the plural rake fingers are combined. Each rake finger utilizes a select assigned delay to synchronize to a delay of the one channel path. A searcher periodically performs a channel search on the received signal to detect new delays of strongest paths in the channel. Plural trackers, one for each channel path, adjust the select assigned delays between searches performed by the searcher. A delay controller is operatively coupled to the searcher and the tracker. The delay controller compares new delays of the strongest paths from the searcher to the select assigned delays and reassigns one of the select assigned delays with one of the new delays only if the new delay differs from the one select assigned delay more than a preselect minimum amount.
Abstract:
A system and method for performing the digital receive processing for multiple signals received over the same RF band is described. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, digital RF samples are stored in a queue which is accessed by a searcher (130) and demodulator (112). The searcher (130) and demodulator (112) are preferably located on the same integrated circuit along with the queue. The demodulator (112) demodulates a set of reverse link signals stored within the queue where each reverse link signal is received with at a particular time offset and processed using a particular channel code. The searcher (130) periodically searches for reverse link signals not being processed by the demodulator (112), and for access requests transmitted via the access channel. The searcher (130) preferably searches during the worthy power control groups of each reverse link signal, which corresponds to the two of sixteen power control groups transmitted during an eighth rate frame.
Abstract:
A system includes a transceiver configured to receive frequency dependent channel estimates or beamforming feedback in a multi-carrier, multi-antenna communication system, and a multi-layer perceptron feed forward neural network component, coupled with the transceiver, configured to estimate parameters of multipath reflections using representations of the channel estimates or beamforming feedback, and to generate transmission correction factors for the transceiver.
Abstract:
An exemplary embodiment in accordance with this invention provides a method of managing a set of uplink reception paths and controlling the timing of uplink transmission of a UE. The method includes selecting a dominant path from a plurality of paths based at least in part on measurements of the plurality of paths. A path describes a communication route from a mobile device to an access point via a RRH. The method also includes selecting a plurality of non-dominant serving paths from the plurality of paths based at least in part on the measurements; determining a timing window based at least in part on the dominant path; determining a TA for the mobile device based at least in part on the timing window and sending the TA to the mobile device. Apparatus and computer readable media are also described.
Abstract:
A training method provides and advantageous technique for estimating secondary propagation path parameters based on learming propagation path characteristics for a selected number of secondary propagation path signals. In a multipath environment, a received radio signal comprises multiple received signals, each received through a different signal propagation path. The strongest multipath signal is deemed the main path signal, while the remaining multipath signals are termed secondary path signals. In some types of direct-sequence, spread spectrum communications systems, significant secondary signals must be canceled from the received multipath signal to achieve desired receiver performance, while in other types of systems, such secondary signals may be used to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio of the received signal. In either case, the various multipath signals must be accurately characterized. The training method includes a course search technique that yields initial identification of the significant secondary path signals, and further includes techniques for characterizing the magnitude, phase, and path delay, all relative to the main path signal for secondary path signal of interest. The training method employs differential decoding and sample phase slicing to improve parameter estimation accuracy, and further includes phase correlation operations to determine secondary path delay, where such delays may have spreads that exceed a transmitted signal symbol period.
Abstract:
Locations of path rays in a multi-path channel receiver having multiple time references are detected, e.g., when the receiver switches time references. Locations of received path rays are searched for and determined. The locations are tracked for a predetermined amount of time. If the locations are lost after a predetermined amount of time, a new search for the locations of the received path rays is initiated. The searching may include determining a probable location of a most significant path ray, shifting the location within a predetermined interval, analyzing each shifted location to determine whether the shifted location corresponds to the actual location of the received path ray, and depending on the analysis results, completing the search or determining a probable location of a next most significant ray. The analysis may be performed by correlating each shifted location with a pilot sequence and determining if the location results exceed a predetermined threshold. If the correlation results do not exceed the threshold, a determination is made whether all the most significant path rays have been analyzed, and if so, a complete search for the path ray location is initiated. When switching from a time reference of low accuracy to a time reference of high accuracy, the low accuracy time reference may be calibrated to the high accuracy time reference based on averaged measurements of the ration of clock cycles of the time reference of high accuracy to the clock cycles of the time reference of low accuracy.
Abstract:
The punctured pilot channel comprises information symbols of uncertain sign punctured into a sequence of pilot channel symbols of predetermined sign. The apparatus includes an information sign demodulation circuit for determining the sign of the information symbols in response to the pilot channel symbols. A continuous pilot generator (336) generates a non-punctured pilot channel of predetermined sign from the information symbols and the pilot channel symbols. In a first embodiment, the information sign demodulator further comprises a dot product circuit for calculating a dot product of the pilot channel symbols and the punctured information symbols, and a threshold comparator for comparing the dot product to a predetermined threshold.
Abstract:
A CDMA receiver includes a plurality of RAKE branches for despreading the received CDMA signals over a corresponding plurality of paths and a single tracking device that is shared among the plurality of the RAKE branches for tracking the delays of the received CDMA signal over a corresponding path. Similarly, a method for tracking a CDMA signal correlates the received signal with local PN code using a plurality of RAKE branches and tracks the received signal using a single tracking device that is shared among the plurality of the RAKE branches.