Abstract:
Un procedimiento para comunicaciones inalámbricas, que comprende: transmitir (502) un paquete de datos no nulo que tiene un preámbulo (400) con un campo de señal de rendimiento muy alto B, VHT-SIG-B (424); generar (504) un paquete de datos nulo, NDP, caracterizado por que el NDP tiene un preámbulo con un campo VHT-SIG-B (424) y el campo VHT-SIG-B (424) del preámbulo del NDP comprende un patrón de bits particular seleccionado para tener una baja relación pico-potencia media, PAPR; y transmitir (506) el NDP.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for orthogonal pilot tone mapping in Multiple-In and Multiple-Out (MIMO) and Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA) systems are disclosed. An aspect of the method includes identifying a plurality of symbol periods within which symbols representing encoded data are to be transmitted in a plurality of spatial streams over a communication channel; identifying a plurality of pilot tone values for a plurality of pilot tones in the plurality of symbol periods to create a pilot tone mapping, wherein the identified pilot tone values are such that a receiver, when receiving at least some of the plurality of pilot tones, is provided with signals enabling the receiver to characterize and mitigate any communication impairments, and potentially obtain transmit spatial stream diversity benefits, wherein at least two of the pilot tone values in the pilot tone mapping are orthogonal when the symbols are combined over at least one dimension; and transmitting the symbols and the plurality of pilot tones over the plurality of spatial streams for the plurality of symbol periods.
Abstract:
To detect the number of transmit antennas, a fast Fourier transform operation is performed on the received samples of the transmitted long training symbols of a preamble. Next, each of the Fourier transformed results is multiplied with the reference frequency-domain representation of the long training symbol so as to remove the effect of the symbols and to maintain the channel information. Next, inverse Fourier transform or least squares operations is performed on the multiplied values to compute channel impulse response. The number of shifted impulse response in the channel impulse response represents the detected number of transmit antennas. Packets containing preambles of the present invention may be received by extended devices as well as by legacy receivers that are not configured to receive and interpret these preambles. The training symbols may be cyclically-shifted and transmitted on different transmit antennas.
Abstract:
In a wireless transmitter having a plurality of spatial streams differentiable at a receiver, wherein data is encoded and transmitted over a communication channel with pilot tones to provide the receiver with information about the effects of the communication channel and/or transmitter impairments and/or receiver impairments on the spatial streams transmitted, the benefits can be provided by identifying a plurality of symbol periods within which symbols representing some of the encoded data are to be transmitted, identifying pilot tone values for the plurality of symbol periods, wherein the identified pilot tone values are such that the receiver, when receiving at least some of the pilot tones having the identified pilot tone values, is provided with signals enabling the receiver to characterize the communication channel and/or transmitter impairments and/or receiver impairments to obtain transmit stream diversity gain, and transmitting the symbols and the pilot tones over the plurality of spatial streams for the plurality of symbol periods. In some embodiments, the pilot tones are orthogonal over space and time or over space and time and frequency, while in others they are semi-orthogonal. Pilot tone values might be of a constant amplitude and phase shifted, or might also have amplitude variations wherein at least two pilot tones are nonzero for spatial streams for a given symbol period.
Abstract:
An apparatus for wireless communications is provided including a processing system. The processing system is configured to determine path-losses between the apparatus and a plurality of wireless nodes, to group the plurality of wireless nodes into sets based on the determined path-losses, and to exchange data with at least one of the wireless nodes in one of the sets.
Abstract:
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate mitigating ringing effects of a voltage-controlled oscillator upon turning on a transmitter. A receiver generates at least one frequency offset estimate subsequent to an antecedent frequency offset estimate that is potentially erroneous due to ringing effects. The receiver extrapolates a phase error on upcoming symbols based upon a delta between the subsequent and antecedent frequency offset estimates. The phase error is employed to correct the upcoming symbol for ringing effects. In addition, the transmitter can detect a packet in advance of being ready for transmission and power up upon detection to allow the ringing to settle.
Abstract:
A communication device for transmitting a pilot sequence is described. The communication device includes pilot generation circuitry configured for generating a pilot sequence with a reduced peak-to-average power ratio contribution after rotation. The communication device also includes transmitter circuitry configured for transmitting the pilot sequence.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for generating soft-decision output values for a set of transmitted spatial streams in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system are described. The apparatus includes a processor and memory with executable instructions. A plurality of constellation points for respective transmitted spatial streams are looped over to estimate values for other transmitted streams based at least in part on Reduced List Detection (RLD). The plurality of constellation points is a subset of all possible constellation points determined around a spatial stream where more constellation points are assigned to spatial streams with a weaker signal strength than for spatial streams with a stronger signal strength. A set of distance metrics as values of the plurality of constellation points for the respective transmitted spatial streams are determined. Soft-decision outputs for the respective transmitted streams based at least in part on the set of distance metrics are generated.
Abstract:
Certain aspects of the present disclosure present a technique for designing a signal (SIG) field of a mixed mode preamble transmitted to a plurality of user terminals. The SIG field can signal a number of spatial streams assigned to each user. The SIG field is designed such that a robust interference cancellation can be achieved at each user terminal.
Abstract:
Systems and/or methods for communication that generate a plurality of spatial streams are disclosed. Each of the spatial streams comprises a plurality of symbols. At least a portion of a training sequence is distributed across a first symbol in a first one of the spatial streams and a second symbol in a second one of the spatial streams.