Abstract:
A method of determining a rate associated with a received signal including the steps of detecting the received signal (40); decoding the received signal at a first rate, determining a first path metric associated with the first rate, decoding the received signal at a second rate, and determining a second path metric associated with the second rate (44); calculating a plurality of discriminant functions based on the first and second path metrics (46); comparing at least one of the plurality of discriminant functions to a first predetermined value (48); and selecting one of the first and second rates as a determined rate based on the comparison.
Abstract:
A system for determining the rate at which data has been encoded in the receiver of a variable-rate communications system. The data is received in frames having a fixed number of symbols. Multiple copies of symbols fill the frame when data is encoded at less than the full rate. At an encoding rate of one fourth the full rate, for example, each symbol in the frame is repeated four times. The incoming symbols are provided to multiple paths for decoding. Each path decodes the symbols at one of the possible rates. Error metrics, which describe the quality of the decoded symbols, are extracted and provided to a processor. The error metrics may include Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) results, Yamamoto Quality Metrics, and Symbol Error Rates. The processor analyzes the error metrics and determines the most probable rate at which the incoming symbols were encoded.
Abstract:
In variable bit rate communications in which the information rate changes at B/2.sup.n (where n is 0 or a positive integer) in each frame when the maximum information rate is B, at the transmitter side, information data is convolution coded in order to carry out an error correction of the information data, and when n.gtoreq.1, coded data is repeatedly transmitted by (2.sup.n -1) times. At the receiver side, the information rate is detected from the transmission data that has been received, and when carrying out Viterbi decoding, an information rate is estimated by utilizing the repetition characteristics of the data, so that the coded data is Viterbi decoded for only the estimated bit rate, to thereby restrict an increase in the power consumption of mobile terminal units that are driven by batteries.
Abstract:
In a system and method for wireless communication with a transmitter and a receiver, the transmitter is operable to wirelessly transmit digital information to the receiver with a plurality of data transmission rates using a modulation format, wherein the digital information is transmitted using a transmission frame including a header part and a payload part, and the header part comprises a preamble, wherein the modulation format is the same for all data transmission rates and wherein the data transmission rate is at least encoded into the preamble of the frame, and wherein the receiver is configured to determine the data transmission rate when receiving the preamble.
Abstract:
The transport format (TF) (302) of a signal (108) may be blindly detected from a reduced set of TF hypotheses (606). In an example embodiment, a method (800) for the blind detection of a TF (302) of a signal (108) includes filtering (802) a set of transport format hypotheses to identify a reduced set of TF hypotheses (606)using one or more filtering schemes (610a, 610b, 610c). From the reduced set of TF hypotheses (606), a TF (302) that is associated with an interfering signal (204) is detected. The TF (302) includes a modulation (304) and a spreading factor (306) for the interfering signal (204). It may also include a number of channelization codes (308). In an example implementation, when an interfering signal (204) is to be canceled,symbols carried by the signal are detected using the detected TF (302). Example filtering schemes (610a, 610b, 610c) include filtering based on system design/operation, filtering based on known configuration information, filtering based on an expected level of interference contribution, and so forth.
Abstract:
A flexible and resource-efficient despreading-on-demand (DoD) technique is described where only channels that actually contain data to be despread are despread, and only a single despreading operation need be performed using the actual spreading factor associated with that data. In one example, the data portion of the received signal is buffered for a frame so that an associated transport format, including the actual spreading factor, can be determined before the data is despread. The data is buffered in a memory at a first rate and then subsequently read out at a second rate that is considerably faster than the first rate. The fast data read-out allows despreading at a high rate so that the despread data symbols from the buffered frame are available for further processing shortly after the last sample belonging to the frame has been received.
Abstract:
Techniques for recovering data transmitted on a physical channel in which channelization code is not known at the time of the data recovery. A modulated signal is received and processed to provide received samples (612). A hypothesized channelization code (e.g., an OVSF code in the W-CDMA system) is selected (616) and used to process the received samples to generate partially processed symbols (618). The hypothesized channelization code is a "base" code that can be used to generate all possible channelization codes that may have been used for the physical channel. Intermediate results representative of the partially processed symbols are stored (622) and, upon determination of the actual channelization code (624), further processed (626) in accordance with the actual and hypothesized channelization codes to provide the final results. The additional processing includes partitioning the intermediate results into sets, scaling each intermediate result in a particular set with a scaling factor (+1 or 1) determined by the actual and hypothesized channelization codes, and combining the scaled results in each set to obtain a final result. In the STTD mode in the W-CDMA system, the final results from multiple actual OVSF code intervals can be selectively combine to obtain a recovered symbol (628).
Abstract:
Method and apparatus for minimizing the processing delay incurred by an IC receiver (32) over conventional receivers (20) in a CDMA cellular system are disclosed. The method and apparatus involve operating the conventional receiver (20) and the IC receiver (32) in parallel to each other. Data from the conventional receiver (20) are then used to supplement data from the IC receiver (32) in order to minimize the delays incurred by the IC receiver (32).