Abstract:
A method and apparatus for supporting transmit diversity are disclosed. A wireless communication system includes a transmitter having a plurality of transmit antennas and a receiver having at least one receive antenna. The transmitter transmits different pilot code sequences via each of the transmit antennas. The receiver comprises at least one receive antenna for receiving signals transmitted from the transmitter and a plurality of equalizers. Each equalizer is locked onto one of the transmit antennas and processes received samples using a corresponding pilot code sequence. The equalizer may treat user data and pilot code sequence transmitted via all other transmit antennas except the corresponding transmit antenna as interference or alternatively may cancel pilot or pilot and data in parallel or successively.
Abstract:
A system, components and methods provide FEC decoding in a wireless communication system in which signal to noise ratio estimation is used for scaling (18) information captured by a demodulator (14) in processing received wireless communication signals (12). A preferred wireless transmit unit (WRTU) has a channel rate estimation device (23) configured to process the received communication signals for the particular communication channel and to produce channel change rate estimates. A signal to noise ratio (SNR) estimation device (16) of the WRTU is configured to produce SNR estimates based on observation windows of a calculated number of samples of the received signal where the number of samples used for each observation window is calculated (25) as a function of the channel change rate estimates produced by the channel rate estimation device (23).
Abstract:
An analog/digital gain control device avoid some of the requirements associated with the nature of a closed-loop AGC circuits and which meets the remaining requirements without much difficulty uses an analog to digital conversion method that increases the number of effective ADC bits by compressing the baseband input analog signal using a logarithmic circuit. After the compressed analog signal is converted into a digital signal, a digital anti-log process or look-up table (LUT) is used to expand the digital signal back to the original linear scale. The word size of the output of the anti-log process is larger than the input word size due to the nature of the anti-log function. To reduce the word size of the digital signal an open loop normalization technique can be applied.
Abstract:
A receiver which includes at least one equalizer filter and a tap coefficients generator for implementing receive diversity. The equalizer filter processes a signal derived from signals received by a plurality of antennas. In one embodiment, sample data streams from the antennas are merged into one sample data stream. The merged sample data stream is processed by a single extended equalizer filter, whereby filter coefficients are adjusted in accordance with a joint error signal. A filter coefficient correction term used by the equalizer filter is generated by the tap coefficients generator using a normalized least mean square (NLMS) algorithm. In another embodiment, a plurality of equalizer filters are utilized, whereby each equalizer receives a sample data stream from a specific one of the antennas. In yet another embodiment, the sample data streams are combined after being processed by a plurality of matched filters based on respective estimated channel impulse responses.
Abstract:
A sliding window based data estimation is performed. An error is introduced in the data estimation to the communication modeling the relationship between the transmitted and received signals. To compensate for an error in the estimated data, the data that was estimated in a previous sliding window step (58) or terms that would otherwise be truncated as noise are used. These techniques (50, 52, 54, 56. 58, 60, 62 and 64) allow for data to be truncated prior to further processing reducing the data of the window.
Abstract:
A method for biasing signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) to generate channel quality indicator (CQI) includes measuring the packet error rate (PER) of a received signal and comparing the PER to a to the target PER to generate a correction term. The correction term is combined with the SIR estimation of a reference channel to generate a CQI. The CQI is reported to a transmitter to adjust signal configurations, such as code rate, modulation type, number of codes, power offset.
Abstract:
The present invention is related to a method and apparatus for estimating signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) based on dedicated physical channel (DPCH) pilot symbols in a wireless communication system. A receiver receives a DPCH transmission and a despreader despreads the received DPCH transmission. A selector selects pilot symbols in the despread DPCH transmission. A signal power estimator estimates signal power based on the pilot symbols, and a noise power estimator estimates noise power based on the received DPCH transmission. A SNR estimator estimates an SNR based on the signal power estimation and the noise power estimation. The noise power estimator may calculate the noise power estimation either based only on pilot symbols or based on both pilot symbols and non-pilot symbols. The DPCH transmission may be transmitted using more than one antenna for transmit diversity.
Abstract:
A wireless communication apparatus (200) which uses fast Fourier transforms (FFTs) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) receiver (250) which incorporates a beam space antenna array (205). The beam space antenna array may be implemented with a Butler matrix array. The beam space antenna array may be a circular array, vertical array, or a combination of both circular and vertical arrays, for providing the desired angular antenna coverage. In one embodiment, the antenna array is optimized because the FFTs are linear invariant transform operators (210), whereby the order of operations in the OFDM receiver can be interchanged.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for estimating and reporting the quality of a wireless communication channel between a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and a Node-B. A modulated signal is received from the Node-B over the communication channel and a channel estimation is performed on the modulated signal to provide a channel estimate. In one embodiment, the modulated signal is demodulated based on the channel estimate to provide a demodulated signal and a signal-to-interference (SIR) estimate based on the demodulated signal is obtained. The quality of the communication channel is estimated based on at least the SIR estimate. In an alternate embodiment, a SIR estimate based on the channel estimate is obtained. The quality of the communication channel is estimated based on the SIR estimate and additional information including at least one of delay spread, transmit power and WTRU velocity information.
Abstract:
The present invention has many aspects. One aspect of the invention is to perform equalization using a sliding window approach. A second aspect reuses information derived for each window for use by a subsequent window. A third aspect utilizes a discrete Fourier transform based approach for the equalization. A fourth aspect relates to handling oversampling of the received signals and channel responses. A fifth aspect relates to handling multiple reception antennas. A sixth embodiment relates to handling both oversampling and multiple reception antennas.