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Method for optimizing an equalizer at a receiver in a communication system by training virtual parallel equalizers. Multiple configurations are applied for training an equalizer, and a performance measurement or estimate determined. The performance measures of the multiple configurations are compared to determine the optimum configuration. The training and selection are performed at a rate sufficiently higher than the received sample rate as to allow optimization in between processing of data samples.
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Methods and apparatus are presented herein for determining log likelihood ratios (LLRs) for code symbols. Pilot and code symbols are transmitted over diversity channels, which can be modeled as a slowly time varying system. A formulation for a multipath gain vector is derived herein based on the slowly time varying model. The multipath gain vector is then solved using iterative procedures. Using the solved multipath gain vector, the LLRs for code symbols are computed.
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Techniques for detecting and mitigating adjacent channel interference (ACI) in a wireless (e.g., CDMA) communication system. In one aspect, ACI may be determined by signaling or detected by filtering a pre-processed signal in each frequency range where ACI may be present (e.g., with a respective bandpass filter), estimating the energy of the filtered signal for each frequency range, comparing the estimated energy against an ACI threshold, and indicating the presence or absence of ACI at each frequency range based on the result of the comparison. In another aspect, a selectable filter (e.g., a FIR filter) having a number of possible filter responses (e.g., provided by a number of sets of filter coefficients) may be used to provide filtering for the pre-processed signal and to reject any detected ACI. One of the possible filter responses is selected for use depending on whether and where ACI has been detected.
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A non-parametric matched filter receiver that includes a digital (e.g., FIR) filter and a channel estimator. The channel estimator (1) determines the timing to center the digital filter, (2) obtains the characteristics of the noise in received samples, (3) estimates the system response for the samples using a best linear unbiased (BLU) estimator, a correlating estimator, or so me other type of estimator, and (4) derives a set of coefficients for the digit al filter based on the estimated system response and the determined noise characteristics. The correlating estimator correlates the samples with their known values to obtain the estimated system response. The BLU estimator pre- processes the samples to whiten the noise, correlates the whitened samples with their known values, and applies a correction factor to obtain the estimated system response. The digital filter then filters the samples with the set of coefficients to provide demodulated symbols.
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Methods, systems, devices, and apparatuses are described for location tracking in which each tag used to track an asset or person in an indoor environment transmits ranging waveforms used to estimate a location of the tag. Multiple tags may concurrently transmit without interfering with each other by having each tag use a distinct frequency shift for the ranging waveforms. Access points may be deployed throughout the indoor environment as part of a wireless network (e.g., ultra-wideband or UWB network) that tracks the assets. The access points may receive the ranging waveforms transmitted by the tags and may perform measurements based on the ranging waveforms. The measurements may be sent to a tracking management server to estimate the location of the tags. The server may also determine and assign the distinct frequency shifts used by the tags and may modify the assignment when the number of tags being tracked changes.
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A communication system is provided that allows a mobile terminal with an EVDO interface to perform VoIP communications via a satellite. The 1xEVDO physical layer frames and vocoder frames are synchronized and aligned to a known periodic time boundary for efficient transmission. A reverse link transmission rate is adjusted to match a VoIP packet source rate and operate the reverse link transmission channel to a satellite continuously. The reverse link transmission channel from a mobile terminal to a satellite may operate continuously and at a lower channel transmission rate to reduce the peak power amplifier power requirement. The higher layer time-out periods are increased to account for propagation delay to/from a satellite relay. A physical layer retransmit mechanism is disabled to ignore ACKs/ NACKs when sending VoIP packets via a satellite relay. A different channel code may be selective applied depending on the size/type of packets being transmitted.
Abstract:
EL APARATO DE ENTIDAD DE GESTION DE CONEXION DETERMINE UN CONJUNTO DE MODEMS DENTRO DE LA COBERTURA DE UN AREA PARTICULAR, CADA MODEM DEL CONJUNTO DE MODEMS ESTA ASOCIADO CON UNA AERONAVE PARTICULAR Y UNA PORTADORA DE UNA PLURALIDAD DE PORTADORAS, EL APARATO ASIGNA SUBCONJUNTOS DE MODEMS A CADA eNB DE UN CONJUNTO DE eNBS, LA ASIGNACION PERMITE QUE CADA eNB PUEDA COMUNICARSE CON EL SUBCONJUNTO DE MODEMS ASIGNADO, CADA eNB OPERA SOBRE UNA PORTADORA DIFERENTE, EL APARATO PUEDE SER UN eNB, EL eNB DETERMINA UN CONJUNTO DE MODEMS DENTRO DE LA COBERTURA DEL eNB, EL CONJUNTO DE MODEMS ESTA ASOCIADO CON UNA PORTADORA DE UNA PLURALIDAD DE PORTADORAS, EL eNB OPERA SOBRE DICHA PORTADORA, CADA MODEM EN EL CONJUNTO DE MODEMS SE ASOCIA CON UNA AERONAVE DIFERENTE, EL eNB ENVIA INFORMACION QUE INDICA EL CONJUNTO DE MODEMS Y RECIBE UNA ASIGNACION DE UN SEGUNDO CONJUNTO DE MODEMS EN RESPUESTA A LA INFORMACION ENVIADA.
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Un método para recibir difusiones, que comprende: recibir, mediante un receptor, una primera transmisión (100) que comprende una pluralidad de ranuras de tiempo; identificar que la primera transmisión incluye una porción (178) de difusión modulada usando un primer formato de modulación y una porción (175) de unidifusión modulada usando un segundo formato de modulación, en el que los formatos primero y segundo de modulación son diferentes; demodular (545) la porción de unidifusión; y demodular (540) la porción de difusión; caracterizado porque: la porción (178) de difusión y la porción (175) de unidifusión son porciones separadas de tiempo de la primera transmisión, que ocupan, cada una, una o más ranuras separadas de tiempo de la primera transmisión; y la porción (178) de difusión es una porción sincronizada de difusión, transmitida por una pluralidad de transmisores sincronizados que usan una misma forma de onda de difusión.