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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a system for processing data for transmission in a multi-channel communication system using selective channel transmission. SOLUTION: Transmission channels available for use are segregated into one or more groups, with each group including any number of channels. With selective channel transmission, only "good" channels in each group are selected (e.g., based on the channels' received SNRs and an SNR threshold), "bad" channels are not used, and the total available transmit power for the group is (e.g., uniformly) distributed across only the good channels. Each group may also be associated with a respective coding and modulation scheme, and data for each group may also be coded and modulated based on the scheme selected for the group. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques to transmit data on a number of transmission channels in a multi-channel communication system using multiple transmission schemes requiring less channel-state information (CSI).SOLUTION: Transmission schemes 200 may include: a partial-CSI transmission scheme that transmits a single data stream on each transmit antenna selected for use; and a "beam-forming" transmission scheme that allocates all transmit power to a single transmission channel having the best performance. Each transmission scheme may provide good or near-optimum performance for a specific range of operating conditions (or operating SNRs). Therefore, these multiple transmission schemes may then be combined in a piece-wise fashion to form a "multi-mode" transmission scheme that covers the full range of operating conditions supported by the MIMO system.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for operating a large number of transmission devices in a radio communication system. SOLUTION: The method includes: segmenting usable system resources into a plurality of channels; defining a reuse scheme including a plurality of cells for the communication system; determining one or more characteristics for each of the cells in the reuse scheme; allocating a combination of channels to each of cells in the reuse scheme on the basis of one or more characteristics for which at least a cell is partially decided; and repeating decision and allocation in order to reflect the change in the communication system. The cells in the reuse scheme are each allocated with the channels of each set for transmission at a full power level. The cells in the reuse scheme are each allocated with channels of each set including one or more channels usable for transmission at a full power level and one or more channels usable for transmission at a reduce power level. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and system for processing data for transmission in a multi-channel communication system using selective channel transmission. SOLUTION: Transmission channels are selected for use for data transmission and data are processed and transmitted over the selected transmission channel. Transmission channels available for use are segregated into one or more groups, with each group including any number of channels. With selective channel transmission, only "good" channels in each group are selected (e.g., based on the channels' received SNRs and an SNR threshold), "bad" channels are not used, and the total available transmit power for the group is (e.g., uniformly) distributed across only the good channels. Each group can also be associated with a respective coding and modulation scheme, and data for each group can be coded and modulated based on the scheme selected for the group. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology for adaptively controlling a data transmission rate in a radio (e.g., OFDM) communication system. SOLUTION: In one viewpoint, various kinds of metrics may be derived and used to select a suitable rate for data transmission. Some kinds of metrics relate to different characteristics of a communication channel such as an SNR, a frequency selection degree, a time selection degree and the like. One kind of metrics relates to data transmission performance. In another viewpoint, the various kinds of metrics may be used in a different way to adaptively control the rate. Some metrics may be used for open-loop control, other metrics may be used for closed-loop control, and some may be used for both. For example, a channel metrics may be used to decide or select the rate, and a performance metrics may be used to decide whether or not to adjust the rate. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique to successively process received signals in a receiver unit and to adaptively process data in a transmitter unit based on channel state information available with an MIMO channel in an MIMO system for recovering transmitted data. SOLUTION: A successive cancellation receiver processing technique is used for processing the received signals and performing a number of iterations in order to provide a decoded data stream. For each iteration, input (e.g., received) signals for the iteration are processed to provide one or more symbol streams. One of the symbol streams is selected and processed to provide a decoded data stream. The interference due to the decoded data stream is removed (i.e., canceled) from the input signals provided to the next iteration. The channel characteristics are evaluated and informed to the source of the transmitter system to adjust processing (such as coding, modulation) of data prior to transmission (i.e., adaptation). COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques for iterative detection and decoding for a MIMO (Multi Input Multi Output)-OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) system. SOLUTION: The iterative detection and decoding is performed by iteratively passing soft (multi-bit) "a priori" information between a detector and a decoder. The detector performs a detection function that is complementary to the symbol mapping and provides soft-decision symbols. "Extrinsic information" in the soft-decision symbols is then decoded to provide its extrinsic information, which comprises the a priori information used by the detector in the detection process. The detection and decoding may be iterated a number of times. The soft-decision symbols and the a priori information may be represented using log-likelihood ratios (LLRs). Techniques are provided to reduce the computational complexity associated with deriving the LLRs, including interference nulling to isolate each transmitted signal and "dual-maxima" approximation. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of signal processing using channel eigenmode decomposition and channel inversion for MIMO systems. SOLUTION: At a transmitter, channel eigen-decomposition is performed to determine eigenmodes of a MIMO channel and to derive a first set of steering vectors, channel inversion is performed to derive weights used to minimize ISI (inter-symbol interference) distortion, and water-pouring is performed to derive scaling values indicative of the transmit powers allocated to the eigenmodes. The first set of steering vectors, weights and scaling values are used to derive a pulse-shaping matrix, which is used to precondition modulation symbols. At a receiver, channel eigen-decomposition is performed to derive a second set of steering vectors, which are used to derive a pulse-shaping matrix used to condition received symbols such that orthogonal symbol streams are recovered. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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Techniques for transmitting data from a transmitter unit to a receiver unit in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system. In one method, at the receiver unit, a number of signals are received via a number of receive antennas, with the received signal from the transmitter unit. The received signals are processed to derive channel state information (CSI) indicative of characteristics of a number of transmission channels used for data transmission. The CSI is transmitted back to the transmitter unit. At the transmitter unit, the CSI from the receiver unit is received and data for transmission to the receiver units is processed based on the received CSI.
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Un procedimiento para informar de información de estado de canal, CSI, en un sistema de comunicación de múltiples entradas y múltiples salidas, MIMO, que comprende: recibir una pluralidad de señales por medio de una pluralidad de antenas de recepción, en el que la señal recibida desde cada antena de recepción comprende una combinación de una o más señales transmitidas desde una unidad transmisora; procesar la pluralidad de señales recibidas para derivar información de estado de canal, CSI, indicativa de características de una pluralidad de canales de transmisión usados para la transmisión de datos, en el que la CSI comprende: información suficiente para que la unidad transmisora calcule valores propios y modos propios para cada subcanal de frecuencia utilizado en transmisiones de enlace descendente; transmitir la CSI de vuelta a la unidad transmisora; y transmitir actualizaciones diferenciales de la CSI de vuelta a la unidad transmisora.