Abstract:
A spread-spectrum communication system provides an effective signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of received orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) slots in the presence of timing errors. Effective SNR can serve as a diagnostic tool for determining whether there was a timing error when a measured packet error rate (PER) remains high, and a predicted PER from the effective SNR remains low. A loop can use the effective SNR to control a time reference used by an OFDM decoder.
Abstract:
Noise variance estimation in wireless communications. Noise variance estimation includes receiving a signal 402 including an OFDM symbol having, in-band tones including in-band pilot tones, and band-edge tones including band-edge pilot tones and guard tones, estimating an effective noise variance for the in-band tones 702 using the in-band pilot tones and channel estimates for the in-band pilot tones, and estimating an effective noise variance for the band-edge tones 704 using the band-edge pilot tones, channel estimates for the band-edge pilot tones, and the guard tones.
Abstract:
A pilot assisted channel estimation process. A receiver may be configured to estimate the impulse response of a channel from a signal having pilot tones and spread-spectrum pilot signals. The receiver estimates the response of the channel from the pilot tones, and adapts the length of delay the channel response is estimated based on the spread-spectrum pilot signals.
Abstract:
La estimación de la variación del ruido incluye la recepción de una señal 402 incluyendo un símbolo OFDM que tiene, tonos en-banda incluyendo tonos pilotos en-banda, y tonos del límite de banda incluyendo los tonos pilotos del límite de banda y tonos protectores, estimación de una variación del ruido efectiva para los tonos en-banda 702 utilizando los tonos pilotos en-banda y las estimaciones del canal para los tonos pilotos en-banda, y estimando una variación del ruido efectiva para los tonos del límite de banda 704 utilizando los tonos pilotos del límite de banda, las estimaciones del canal para los tonos pilotos del límite de banda, y los tonos protectores.
Abstract:
Estimacion de variacion de ruido en comunicaciones inalambricas. La estimacion de variacion de ruido incluye recibir una senal 402 que incluye un simbolo de OFDM que tiene, tonos en banda que incluyen tonos piloto en banda, y tonos de limite de banda que incluyen tonos piloto de limite de banda y tonos de proteccion, estimar una variacion de ruido efectiva para los tonos 702 en banda utilizando los tonos piloto en banda y las estimaciones de canal para los tonos piloto en banda, y estimar una variacion de ruido efectiva para los tonos 704 de limite de banda utilizando los tonos piloto de limite de banda, estimaciones de canal para los tonos piloto de limite de banda, y los tonos de proteccion.
Abstract:
Un proceso de estimacion de canal asistido por piloto. Un receptor puede configurarse para estimar la respuesta de impulso de un canal desde una sefial que tiene tonos piloto y senales piloto espectro propagadas. El receptor estima la respuesta del canal desde los tonos piloto y adapta la longitud del retardo de la respuesta de canal que se estima en base a las senales piloto espectro propagadas.
Abstract:
A power efficient technique is used to demodulate the coded overhead channels of a GEO satellite uplink. A coherent receiver used in a wireless communication system is able to determine the information conveyed in the overhead channel, by effecting channel estimates from codewords extracted from a pilot signal. A valid set of codewords is established (111). Pilot symbols are extracted from a pilot signal (114) and a channel estimate is made from the pilot signal (115). Codewords in the set of valid codewords are correlated (112) and the channel estimate is used to form a set of metries (123) and the codeword corresponding to the maximum metric is selected (135).
Abstract:
A receiver for the GEO satellite reverse link, which uses the tail-biting convolutional code for error control, and methods to solve the problem of channel estimation is described. The channel estimate is initialized at each state using the pilot channel. Branch metric computation is used for circular decoding of the tail-biting convolutional code. The technique is effective when partial tail-biting is implemented.
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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.