Abstract:
A spreader (216) comprises a code generator (301) and exclusive OR circuitry (303). In the preferred embodiment of the present invention the code generator (301) generates a code having a length and value dependent upon the current transmission rate. This code is then exclusive OR'd with the incoming data stream to produce spread data.
Abstract:
A spread spectrum base station receives a multichannel data communication signal. The multichannel data communication signal has multiple data channels at independent data rates on a same frequency spectrum. Selected channels of data of the received signal are separated and the data rate for each channel identified. Each separated channel is decoded at an assigned data rate. A common decoding memory is shared.
Abstract:
Techniques for detecting zero rate frames in a received data transmission. A modulated signal is received and demodulated in accordance with a particular demodulation format to generate demodulated symbols. The demodulated symbols are partitioned into a number of received frames. For each received frame, a quality metric is computed and compared against a threshold value. The threshold value is selected based, in part, on the quality metrics of received frames. Based on the comparison result, the received frame is indicated as being either transmitted and received in error (i.e., erased or bad) or not transmitted at all (i.e., zero rate or empty). The quality metric can relate to an energy of a received frame, a distance between a received frame and a codeword corresponding to the received frame, or other metrics. The threshold value can be selected based on the quality metrics computed for decoded frames or received frames identified as good, and can be dynamically adjusted based on current information available at the receiver. The method is advantageously used in a CDMA communications system.
Abstract:
A rate adjustment device allowing the burden on a decoder to be reduced when decoding a variable-rate channel is disclosed. After despreadirg a received baseband signal based on a predetermined symbol rate to produce rate-indicating data and a sequence of received correlation values, a received symbol rate is compared to the maximum symbol rate and, when the received symbol rate is lower than the maximum symbol rate, it is determined whether a receive quality is satisfactory. When the receive quality is satisfactory, at least one received correlation value is selected from the received correlation values and is used to generate a correlation value matching the received symbol rate.
Abstract:
Techniques for detecting zero rate frames in a received data transmission. A modulated signal is received and demodulated in accordance with a particular demodulation format to generate demodulated symbols. The demodulated symbols are partitioned into a number of received frames. For each received frame, a quality metric is computed and compared against a threshold value. The threshold value is selected based, in part, on the quality metrics of received frames. Based on the comparison result, the received frame is indicated as being either transmitted and received in error (i.e., erased or bad) or not transmitted at all (i.e., zero rate or empty). The quality metric can relate to an energy of a received frame, a distance between a received frame and a codeword corresponding to the received frame, or other metrics. The threshold value can be selected based on the quality metrics computed for decoded frames or received frames identified as good, and can be dynamically adjusted based on current information available at the receiver. The method is advantageously used in a CDMA communications system.
Abstract:
Techniques for detecting zero rate frames in a received data transmission. A modulated signal is received and demodulated in accordance with a particular demodulation format to generate demodulated symbols. The demodulated symbols are partitioned into a number of received frames. For each received frame, a quality metric is computed and compared against a threshold value. The threshold value is selected based, in part, on the quality metrics of received frames. Based on the comparison result, the received frame is indicated as being either transmitted and received in error (i.e., erased or bad) or not transmitted at all (i.e., zero rate or empty). The quality metric can relate to an energy of a received frame, a distance between a received frame and a codeword corresponding to the received frame, or other metrics. The threshold value can be selected based on the quality metrics computed for decoded frames or received frames identified as good, and can be dynamically adjusted based on current information available at the receiver. The method is advantageously used in a CDMA communications system.
Abstract:
A digital communication system is disclosed. A transmitter combines a digitized signal into a digital data stream with variable data rate and transmits it to a receiver. The receiver decodes the received signal with an actually transmitted data rate. For this reason, the receiver has to estimate the coding data rate of the received signal. The receiver decodes the received signal at one decoding rate, which is evaluated whether the decoding rate is correct or not. Such evaluation is achieved by, for example, measuring S/N ratio. According to such estimation the receiver estimates the actual transmitted data rate.
Abstract:
A method in accordance with this invention includes the steps of (a) decoding a received signal and determining, for individual ones of n data rates, a value of a total cumulative metric associated with a most likely path through a decoder trellis; (b) comparing the value of the total cumulative metric to a plurality of total cumulative metric threshold values, individual ones of the plurality of total cumulative metric threshold values corresponding to an expected total cumulative metric for an individual one of the n data rates and being one of fixed or adaptively determined; and (c) identifying the received data rate based on the comparison. The step of determining a total cumulative metric includes the steps of (a) processing branch metrics to determine survivor metrics; (b) normalizing individual ones of the survivor metrics to form normalized survivor metrics; (c) accumulating the normalized survivor metrics to form cumulative metrics; (d) accumulating normalization values used to normalize each of the normalized survivor metrics; (e) at the end of decoding, outputting a cumulative metric that corresponds to a most likely path through the trellis; and (f) combining an accumulated normalization value with the outputted cumulative metric to form the total cumulative metric.
Abstract:
In a synchronous fixed frame boundary system with variable data rates, a transmitter inserts into a current frame an indication of the data rate of the next frame. After the first frame is received and processed at a receiver, the data rates of subsequent frames are known before processing, thereby reducing processing load. Furthermore, because the rate indication is inserted into the frame to be error protected along with the rest of the frame information, reliability is high, while additional data overhead and complexity are very low. As an example, North American code division multiple access digital cellular telephone systems utilize variable data rate transmissions. As a station modem (SM) assembles a current frame for convolutional encoding and further processing, the SM inserts a rate indication for the subsequent frame in accordance with information from a vocoder and CPU of the appropriate data rate for the subsequent frame. On the receiving end, rather than needing to decode multiple times to determine the appropriate data rate for every frame, the receiving SM discovers the rate of each frame subsequent to the first frame by analyzing the information contained in the immediately preceding frame. The rate determination process also includes a verification method based upon a frame quality indicator analysis and a symbol error rate analysis to ensure accurate data rate determination.
Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention provide a wireless communications method, user equipment, a base station and a system, and relate to the field of wireless communications. The method includes: acquiring a frequency domain spreading factor, a symbol-level spreading factor and a transmission time interval-level spreading factor; and performing frequency domain spreading, symbol-level spreading and transmission time interval-level spreading on first to-be-sent information respectively according to the acquired spreading factors and sending first spread information; or, despreading, according to the acquired spreading factors, second spread information sent by a base station.