Abstract:
In accordance with the presently claimed invention, a system and method are provided for testing multiple-input, multiple-output wireless radiofrequency (RF) packet data signal transceivers while operating in such ways as to communicate their signals using various combinations or permutations of packet data streams without requiring termination or re-establishment of communication links following transitions from one combination or permutation of packet data streams to another.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a method of testing a network access element configured for demodulating an enhanced dedicated channel, E-DCH, with hybrid automatic repeat request, HARQ, functionality, the method comprising: transmitting E-DCH packets to the network access element; and selectively autonomously retransmitting E-DCH packets to the network access element.
Abstract:
A method for approximating the bit error rate (BER) contribution to a data symbol stream of a first channel by additionally passing the stream through a second channel of similar noise figure. The bit outputs of the two channels are sampled (16), compared (18), and a record is made of the number of times the sampled data (a one or zero) of the first channel differs from the data of the second channel (32). This number is approximately twice the BER contribution of the first channel.
Abstract:
A pattern generating means, a multiplexing means, and a pattern position specifying-recording means of a testing device used for testing bit errors. An M-channel pattern generator and a pattern generation control section (10) which allows the pattern generator to output a pattern while successively switching the generating section of each channel and when a certain channel is selected to output a pattern, controls the pattern generating operations of the other channels are provided in the first place. Secondly, a clock frequency difference detecting section (150) which measures the frequency of an input clock (111), detects a frequency change that exceeds a prescribed frequency difference by comparing the measured frequency with the frequency value measured during the preceding phase inverting operation, judges whether or not measurement is being conducted, and controls the permission/inhibition of the phase inverting operation of a clock switching circuit (128) is provided. Thirdly, a pattern position recording section (210) which stores the information about the reference pattern generating position of a reference pattern generator (262) in a recording memory (220) when an error detecting signal (265a) from a collating device (265) is detected, is provided.
Abstract:
A loopback circuit connecting the output of a receiver section to a transmitter section of a transceiver circuit has two or more loopback channels. In this way, the data rate is reduced, reducing the signal loss that occurs even over such short distances at very high data rates.
Abstract:
A modulator (fig. 2) that modulates and encodes data using data symbols (52), interspersed with pilot symbols (56), for transmission to another modem, and a demodulator (fig. 3) that decodes data symobls or a signal received from another modem. In the demodulator, a received signal is sampled at four times the symbol rate (104). The sampled signal is converted to quadrature signals and low-pass filtered to produce a complex baseband signal (120). Data symbols in the complex baseband signal are sampled (146) in synchronization with the start of each symbol based on the pilot symbols that are interspersed in the signal. By processing the pilot symbols, full modem synchronization is maintained down to a very low signal-to-noise ratio, through noise bursts, or even when the data symbols representing data are replaced by predefined sequences of data symbols that convey the dots and dashes of Morse code identifying the station transmitting the modulated signal. The continued presence of pilot symbols interspersed with the sequences of data symbols conveying Morse code prevents loss of synchronization between the transmitting station and the receiving station. The pilot symbols are also used to update equalizer tap coefficients in an equalizer (142) of the demodulator, thereby minimizing errors in the output data caused by channel fading, noise, and other effects. In addition, the sequence of pilot symbols is used to delimit data frames, so that bit synchronization and frame synchronization in the data are not required.