Abstract:
The present invention provides methods for combining antenna diversity (10, 12) and gain control (15, 19, 17) in a communications system using a single chain of receiver characteristics. A number of input parameters related to various characteristics of a received signal are used to determine the quality of the received signal. The antenna diversity and gain control procedures are enabled or disabled based on the signal quality. The antenna diversity procedure estimates the signal level of the non-operational antenna using an infinite impulse response digital filter. The gain control procedure selects one of three gain paths based on the received signal strength.
Abstract:
A diversity device is provided with detecting sections which output received phase data on each symbol by using a reference carrier reproduced from the signals received by means of a plurality of receiving systems, synthesizing sections which synthesize the I- and Q-components of the received phase data, and a judging section which demodulates digital symbol data from the synthesized I- and Q-components. The detection sections reproduce the reference carrier from the received signals by referring to the symbol data obtained from the synthesized I- and Q-components. Thus, a stable carrier can be reproduced, because the reference carrier is reproduced by using demodulated data obtained from diversity-synthesized received data.
Abstract:
The reception rate of a radio selective call receiver is improved by a time diversity system. Time diversity reception is applied to both the address signal and message signal constituting a call signal. Namely, the time diversity reception is executed for every error correcting or detecting code word which is the unit constituting the address and message signals irrespective of whether the signal is the address or message signal. For example, out of the code words having the same contents received several times, code words which are judged to be properly decoded in accordance with the error detection decoding logic are selected, and thus receiving signals composed of properly decoded code words can be obtained. Alternatively, a code word having the minimum possibility of error correction can be selected out of the corrected code words having the same contents received several times, by selecting the code word having the smallest number of error-corrected bits from among the code words which are judged to be properly decoded in accordance with the error correcting decoding logic. Thus, the reception rate of the radio selective call receiver is improved. When a code word is properly decoded, in addition, part of the radio selective call receiver is made in operative by inhibiting the reception of the code words having the same contents transmitted thereafter. As a result, the battery consumption of the receiver is reduced.
Abstract:
Transmitter devices of base station and receiver devices of base station in two systems, respectively. A delay circuit which maintains a delay time difference between the D-waves and the U-waves is inserted in the transmitter device and in the receiver device of one system, or in either the transmitter device or the receiver device of one system, so that DSK system, BPSK-RZ system or QPSK-RZ system will exhibit an optimum code error rate. Thus, the system sufficiently exhibits code error rate improving characteristics.
Abstract:
A slow speed hf communications modem employs frequency and time diversity to overcome transmission problems due to noise, multipath etc. A digitally encoded signal is transmitted consecutively on five complementary 2-tone channels distributed within the hf band. A unique start-of-message (SOM) signal is generated (9) to precede a message transmission and an end-of-message signal (EOM) follows the message. The SOM signal is detected (18) to produce an accurate timing pulse (20) which initiates a clock in the receiver modem 3 arranged to sample each channel tone at times appropriate to receiving message signals. The noise in each channel tone is also sampled before (pre-data bit) and after (post-data bit) a signal data bit and the measured pre- and post-data bits are combined to assign a weighting factor to the associated message data bits. By providing SOM and EOM signals the modem is able to operate unattended.
Abstract:
This receiver performs time diversity by use of the output of a wave detector, but does not use any circuit for detecting the level of reception. In this way, the circuit of the receiver is simplified and the power consumption is reduced.
Abstract:
Messages are transmitted on pairs of frequencies that are orthogonal, that is the frequencies have no least common denominator. A message is transmitted on the first of the pair of frequencies (F1, F2) and, simultaneously, its compliment is transmitted on the second of said pair of frequencies (F1, F2). The message is then retransmitted on another pair of orthogonal frequencies. A processor is provided for collecting information on the data error rates at each receiver. This information is periodically transmitted to a central frequency controller which collects this error information and determines the error rates on the frequencies being used.