Abstract:
A wireless communication device uses a time-invariant delay-Doppler channel response estimate for received signal demodulation. The device provides coherent signal demodulation by accounting for frequency and time selectivity in a land-based mobile communication environment, which arise mainly because of delay and Doppler shifts, respectively. In one embodiment, the wireless communication device includes a channel estimator that estimates channel response in a wireless communication network by estimating a delay-Doppler response of a wireless communication channel to obtain a delay-Doppler channel response estimate and converting the delay-Doppler channel response estimate to a time-varying channel response estimate, e.g., a time-varying frequency or impulse response. The delay-Doppler response may be estimated in a continuous or discrete domain. In one embodiment, the channel estimator includes a delay-Doppler correlator that measures the delay-Doppler response by observing a response of a wireless communication channel to a pilot signal and converting the observed response to a delay-Doppler domain.
Abstract:
Method and arrangement in a first base station for calculating a first location parameter α of a user equipment in order to improve beamforming accuracy. The first base station and the user equipment are comprised in a Coordinated Multiple Point “CoMP” communication system together with a second base station. The method comprises measuring a signal received from the user equipment, estimating a first parameter value α′ based on the measured signal, obtaining a second parameter value α″, based on an estimated second location parameter &bgr; of the user equipment, estimated at the second base station and calculating the first location parameter α, based on the first estimated parameter value α′ and the obtained second parameter value α″.
Abstract:
A method of synchronizing signals in a wireless network uses a two part preamble transmitted on the downlink between a base station and a mobile station. The preamble includes a common pilot common to a plurality of base stations and a dedicated pilot unique to the transmitting base station. The mobile station performs coarse synchronization based on the common pilot and fine synchronization based on the dedicated pilot. The mobile station also identifies one or more nearby cells based on unique pilot tones in the dedicated pilot transmitted by the nearby cells.
Abstract:
In a communication system transmitting from multiple antennas to multiple users, data transmission rates are allocated over scheduled users by varying the weights assigned to the users. The user weights determine the transmission preceding vectors used for the transmissions, which determine the data rates. In one embodiment, a set of predetermined weights is selected from a plurality of sets of weights as the one maximizing the sum, over all scheduled users, of the ratio of each user's instantaneous data rate to the average rale over prior frames. In another embodiment, the weights, preceding vectors, and data rates are frequency-specific. In another embodiment, the user weights arc determined through an iterative process of assigning initial weights, determining the precoding vectors associated with the weights, determining the channel conditions for transmission using the determined preceding vectors, and adjusting the user weights based on their relative channel conditions.
Abstract:
In a wireless communication network using point-to-point or point-to-multipoint communications, this disclosure teaches the use of combined packets for retransmission and corresponding soft value processing at a receiver, wherein combined packets are formed as the logical combination of two or more previously transmitted packets and allow the receiver to use a single combined packet to correct one or more failed packets. For example, with the combined packet retransmission and corresponding soft value receiver processing as taught herein, a given receiver can use a given combined packet to correct bit errors in all (failed) packets comprising the combined packet as long as the bit errors in a failed packet do not overlap (or align) with bit errors in the other failed packets comprising the combined packet.
Abstract:
A wireless communication device uses a time-invariant delay-Doppler channel response estimate for received signal demodulation. The device provides coherent signal demodulation by accounting for frequency and time selectivity in a land-based mobile communication environment, which arise mainly because of delay and Doppler shifts, respectively. In one embodiment, the wireless communication device includes a channel estimator that estimates channel response in a wireless communication network by estimating a delay-Doppler response of a wireless communication channel to obtain a delay-Doppler channel response estimate and converting the delay-Doppler channel response estimate to a time-varying channel response estimate, e.g., a time-varying frequency or impulse response. The delay-Doppler response may be estimated in a continuous or discrete domain. In one embodiment, the channel estimator includes a delay-Doppler correlator that measures the delay-Doppler response by observing a response of a wireless communication channel to a pilot signal and converting the observed response to a delay-Doppler domain.
Abstract:
A system and method for transmitting multiple independent data streams from subsets of a plurality of transmit antennas. The method includes determining (11 ) by a receiver (50), a transmit antenna partitioning, including relative phase rotations to be applied to each transmit antenna, that results in the highest channel capacity among the possible partitionings. The receiver (50) then provides (12) partitioning information to a transmitter (40), including the number of transmit antenna subsets, which transmit antennas are included in each subset, the capacity of the data stream to be transmitted from each antenna subset, and the relative phase rotations to be applied to the antennas in each subset. The transmitter (40) partitions (35) the plurality of transmit antennas into mutually exclusive subsets in accordance with the partitioning information, applies (38) the relative phase rotation to each transmit antenna, and transmits (39) an independent data stream from each subset of transmit antennas with a rate not greater than the stream capacity.
Abstract:
Un método para sincronizar señales en una red inalámbrica utiliza un preámbulo en dos partes transmitido en el enlace descendente entre una estación de base y una estación móvil. El preámbulo incluye un piloto común a una pluralidad de estaciones base y un piloto dedicado único a la estación de base de transmisión. La estación móvil lleva a cabo la sincronización gruesa basada en el piloto común y la sincronización fina basada en el piloto dedicado. La estación móvil también identifica una o más celdas circundantes basada en todos piloto únicos en el piloto dedicado transmitido por las celdas circundantes.