Abstract:
A simulator/controller (113) performs real-time simulation for system control in a code-division multiple access (CDMA) wireless communication system (100). The simulator/controller (113) simulates the effects of interfering AMPS wireless communication systems which coexist with CDMA wireless communication systems and also aids in the placement of new CDMA base-stations in the presence of existing AMPS base-stations. When system parameters are input to the simulator/controller (113), real-time simulation of the CDMA wireless communication system (100) predicts potential problem areas of the CDMA wireless communication system (100) and controls the CDMA wireless communication system (100) to avoid the problems before they occur.
Abstract:
An apparatus is provided for maximum likelihood sequence estimation. The apparatus includes a first maximum likelihood sequence estimator (44) in a signal path for flat fading and an at least second maximum likelihood sequence estimator (45) in other signal path for other than fading. The apparatus further includes a switch (47) for selecting the signal path with a least relative magnitude means square error.
Abstract:
A multi-tone signal generator and tone generating method for producing frequency combinations such as those used in dual-tone telephone dialing systems. A phase accumulator tone generator which in one embodiment comprises programmable divider (18) an accumulator (20), a ROM (22) and a latch (30) so interconnected as to generate samples of one of the tones to be encoded, at a rate much lower than would normally be required by the Nyquist criterion for the highest frequency desired. The output rate is specifically chosen so that a distortion product appears at the frequency of the second tone to be generated. The resulting samples are applied to a D/A converter (34) and then passed through a low pass filter (36).
Abstract:
Base stations (101, 102) utilize a spreading code that is dependent upon whether the particular base station (101) is operating in a synchronized, or an unsynchronized mode. Unsynchronized base stations (102) within the communication system (100) utilize a long code unique to the particular base station (102), and base stations (101) operating in a synchronized mode utilize a time shifted version of the same long code. To reduce the search time for remote units (113) within the communication system (100), a group identification code (GIC) (305) is broadcast during a time period that the long code is masked. The GIC (305) indicates a (spreading code) long code group to which the long code of each base station belongs. Additionally, each base station (101, 102) within the communication system (100) determines its synchronization status and utilizes a particular GIC (305) and long code based on the base station's synchronization status.
Abstract:
Method and apparatus (Fig. 1) for sampling input signals (20) of different frequencies and providing a detect signal when the input frequency has a predetermined value suitable for use as a tone decoder for continuous tone controlled squelch systems. The method utilizes digital pseudo continuous correlation tone detection, and includes sample matrix limiting (26 and 28) to provide rapid reverse burst turnoff, as well as background detection to avoid adjacent channel reverse burst turnoff falsing.
Abstract:
In a communications network having time-dispersed signals, there is provided a mechanism for soft decision decoding. It comprises: radio reception of a time-dispersed signal, at least partly equalizing those time-dispersal effects, recovering information contained in the signal, multiplying with that recovered information the absolute value of that at-least-partly-equalized signal (scaled by a number derived from channel conditions over a time during which at least part of the information to be recovered is distributed), and error-correcting the multiplied information by a Viterbi algorithm channel decoding scheme of error correction. Accordingly, soft decision information is generated from within the equalization process itself.
Abstract:
A simulator/controller (113) performs real-time simulation for system control in a code-division multiple access (CDMA) wireless communication system (100). The simulator/controller (113) simulates the effects of interfering AMPS wireless communication systems which coexist with CDMA wireless communication systems and also aids in the placement of new CDMA base-stations in the presence of existing AMPS base-stations. When system parameters are input to the simulator/controller (113), real-time simulation of the CDMA wireless communication system (100) predicts potential problem areas of the CDMA wireless communication system (100) and controls the CDMA wireless communication system (100) to avoid the problems before they occur.
Abstract:
In a communications network having time-dispersed signals, there is provided a mechanism for soft decision decoding. It comprises: radio reception of a time-dispersed signal, at least partly equalizing those time-dispersal effects, recovering information contained in the signal, multiplying with that recovered information the absolute value of that at-least-partly-equalized signal (scaled by a number derived from channel conditions over a time during which at least part of the information to be recovered is distributed), and error-correcting the multiplied information by a Viterbi algorithm channel decoding scheme of error correction. Accordingly, soft decision information is generated from within the equalization process itself.