Abstract:
Performing channel estimation with a limited receiver includes performing a first estimation of a first portion of a signal to obtain first parameters of the portion of the signal. The first portion of the signal has predetermined offsets added during transmission. The predetermined offsets are based on the modulation format of a second portion. The first and second portions have different modulation formats. The first portion of the signal is demodulated using the first parameters to recover data symbols. An equalizer is tranined using a decision directed technique to obtain equalizer coefficients. The demodulated first portion of the signal is checked to confirm correct demodulation. The second protion of the signal is then demodulated using the equalizer coefficents.
Abstract:
A dynamic carrier selection method and system permit units operating on a first carrier (0, 1, 2, 3, 75, 76) to change to a second carrier (0, 1, 2, 3, 75, 76) when performance of the first carrier (0, 1, 2, 3, 75, 76) becomes unacceptable. Carrier quality measurements are taken (503) in which carrier quality is a function of interference (I) and multi-path fading and carrier-signal strength (C). The carriers (0, 1, 2, 3, 75, 76) are ranked according to measured quality in a carrier candidate list. The carrier candidate list is used to permit units (403) to determine which carrier (0, 1, 2, 3, 75, 76) they should switch to (402) when the carrier (0, 1, 2, 3, 75, 76) they are currently operating on is determined to have unacceptable performance. Carrier measurements are retaken (503) in response to a carrier change by unit (403) or a predetermined time period having elapsed.
Abstract:
Method and apparatus (30) for decoding block-coded data which has been transmitted by means of differential modulation. The method first attempts to decode all codewords using an error correcting code (100), and if at least one codeword is still not decoded, uses a correctly decoded codeword to locate a possibly erroneous code symbol in the at least one codeword, alters the possibly erroneous code symbol (120), and again attempts to decode the at least one codeword (130). The invention recognizes that errors in such data typically occur in pairs, and utilizes this property to improve the decoding process.
Abstract:
A method for maintaining synchronization between a transmitter and a receiver is disclosed. The method offsets time drift which causes a degradation in the quality of communication between a transmitter and a reciver. The method comprises using a first sampling time to obtain a first sequence of hard decision symbols for decoding contents of a portion of a received packet, switching to a second sampling time upon degradation in a reliability of the symbols, and using the second sampling time to obtain a second sequence of hard decision symbols for decoding contents of a remaining portion of the received packet.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a method of a first radio device (102) in non- network assisted device-to-device (D2D) communication with a second radio device (103) using a first frequency resource and a first communication protocol. The method comprises determining that the first radio device is within coverage of a cellular network (100). The method also comprises connecting to the cellular network. The method also comprises sending a message to the second radio device, informing said second radio device that the first radio device is within coverage of the cellular network. The method also comprises receiving a message from the cellular network comprising information about a second frequency resource and a second communication protocol. The method also comprises initiating a handover of the D2D communication from the first frequency resource and communication protocol to the second frequency resource and communication protocol.
Abstract:
A relay node is operated in a communication system wherein the relay node communicates with a communication system node via a first link and communicates with user equipment (EU) via a second link. The relay node detects whether a collision between its own uplink transmission on the first link and receipt of the user's transmission on the second link at a future time instant is expected to occur, wherein the collision will interfere with the relay node's ability to receive the UE's transmission. If so, then, the relay node selects and executes one of a plurality of interference averting measures, selection being based at least in part on what type of information is expected to be transmitted and received on the respective first and second links. First and second interference averting measures comprise refraining from or proceeding with transmission of some information to the communication system node.
Abstract:
Methods and a receiver of positioning a spurious signal for reducing the impact of the spurious signal on a received Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, OFDM signal, are presented. The method comprises determining the frequency of a spurious signal (steps 102, 204, 404), determining the frequency for the respective sub-carrier of the OFDM signal and the difference between the frequency of a sub-carrier and the frequency of a spurious signal (steps 104, 206, 406), and adjusting at least one of: the frequency of the first oscillator (step 208) and a parameter related to the frequency of a second oscillator, to decrease the frequency difference between a sub-carrier and a spurious signal (steps 106, 212, 408). By positioning a spurious signal at or near a sub-carrier frequency, the performance impact of the spurious signal is reduced, and the receiver performance improved.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a method of communicating a digital signal via a wireless communications channel between a transmitter and a receiver, at least one of the transmitter and the receiver comprising a plurality of transducers for transforming a signal between an electrical signal and a wireless signal. Embodiments of the method comprises determining (S302; S602) a property of the communications channel; based on at least the determined property, selecting (S303, S305) a number of transducers from the plurality of transducers; and communicating (S304) a digital signal from the transmitter to the receiver using the selected number of transducers.
Abstract:
A technique for self-interference suppression control for a relay node is provided. The relay node comprises a transmitter and a receiver, and is adapted to transmit and received simultaneously using the same frequency channel or using proximate frequency channels. The relay node further comprises an interference signal estimator having a first input adapted to receive a transmitter signal from the transmitter, a second input adapted to receive adaptation metric and an output adapted to output an estimated interference signal generated by the interference signal estimator based on the transmitter signal and the adaptation metric. A subtractor is coupled to the output of interference signal estimator and configured to subtract the estimated interference signal from a received signal in the receiver so as to actively cancel a signal transmitted from the relay node that leaks back into the receiver of the relay node to suppress self-interference.
Abstract:
The invention proposes a way of inserting an analog test signal during normal reception into analog blocks of an OFDM receiver in such a way that the reception is either not corrupted at all, or only very little. This is achieved either by inserting the analog test signal in time or frequency where it does not corrupt the received signal, or by accounting for the interfering analog test signal in the decoding process.