Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a way to perform point-to-multipoint transmission using an adaptive or directional antenna while reducing an antenna array pattern distortion. SOLUTION: Generally, rather than transmitting a same waveform to two or more receivers, an information bearing signal is transformed into different decorrelated waveforms and each decorrelated waveform is transmitted to a different receiver. In one implementation, an information bearing signal is transformed into two decorrelated signals S 1 (t), S 2 (t), such that their cross-correlation or auto-correlation of the information bearing signal, is zero or very small. Such decorrelation may be achieved by sending a first signal to a first receiver 104, while sending a second signal with a radio frequency spectrum that is the spectrally inverted version of the first signal to a second receiver 106. In another implementation, a first signal is transmitted to the first receiver 104, and is also transmitted to the second receiver 106 with a time delay. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
A system and method for narrowing the range of frequency uncertainty of a Doppler shifted pilot signal in a satellite or other communications system with relative signal source and receiver motion. The satellite communications system includes a user terminal (for example, a mobile wireless telephone), a gateway (terrestrial base station), and at least one satellite with unknown position and unknown relative velocity. The method includes the steps of shifting the pilot signal over a plurality of frequency hypotheses, coherently accumulating samples of the pilot signal over a plurality of chips, measuring the energy of the accumulated pilot signal samples, accumulating the energy measurements over a plurality of chips to produce an energy accumulation value, and determining which of the plurality of frequency hypotheses results in the highest energy accumulation value.
Abstract:
A system and method for narrowing the range of frequency uncertainty of a Doppler shifted pilot signal in a satellite or other communications system with relative signal source and receiver motion. The satellite communications system includes a user terminal (for example, a mobile wireless telephone), a gateway (terrestrial base station), and at least one satellite with unknown position and unknown relative velocity. The method includes the steps of shifting the pilot signal over a plurality of frequency hypotheses, coherently accumulating samples of the pilot signal over a plurality of chips, measuring the energy of the accumulated pilot signal samples, accumulating the energy measurements over a plurality of chips to produce an energy accumulation value, and determining which of the plurality of frequency hypotheses results in the highest energy accumulation value.
Abstract:
A system and method for narrowing the range of frequency uncertainty of a Doppler shifted pilot signal in a satellite or other communications system (100) with relative signal source and receiver motion. The satellite communications system (100) includes a user terminal (124, 126) (for example , a mobile wireless telephone), a gateway (120, 122, 112) (terrestrial base station), and at least one satellite (116, 118) with unknown position and unknown relative velocity. The method includes the steps of shifting the pil ot signal over a plurality of frequency hypotheses (309), coherently accumulati ng samples of the pilot signal over a plurality of chips (315), measuring the energy of the accumulated pilot signal samples (318), accumulating the energ y measurements over a plurality of chips to produce an energy accumulation val ue (321), and determining which of the plurality of frequency hypotheses result s in the highest energy accumulation value (324).
Abstract:
A system and method for narrowing the range of frequency uncertainty of a Doppler shifted pilot signal in a satellite or other communications system with relative signal source and receiver motion. The satellite communications system includes a user terminal (for example, a mobile wireless telephone), a gateway (terrestrial base station), and at least one satellite with unknown position and unknown relative velocity. The method includes the steps of shifting the pilot signal over a plurality of frequency hypotheses, coherently accumulating samples of the pilot signal over a plurality of chips, measuring the energy of the accumulated pilot signal samples, accumulating the energy measurements over a plurality of chips to produce an energy accumulation value, and determining which of the plurality of frequency hypotheses results in the highest energy accumulation value.
Abstract:
Methods systems and devices are described for providing flexible bandwidth waveforms and channels for wireless communication. Embodiments may utilize portions of spectrum that may not be large enough to fit a standard or normal waveform. Chip rates may be adapted dynamically to generate and/or to receive flexible bandwidth waveforms to fit these portions of spectrum. Scaling factors and/or center frequencies may also be utilized to generate flexible waveforms. A mobile device may receive adjustment information from a base station so that the mobile device may dynamically adjust its chip rate to utilize a flexible bandwidth channel. A base station may simultaneously transmit on a normal bandwidth channel and a flexible bandwidth channel in some cases. Some flexible bandwidth waveforms may be utilized that are larger or take more bandwidth than a normal waveform. Flexible bandwidth may also be utilized to split and/or combine frequency channels.
Abstract:
A system and method for narrowing the range of frequency uncertainty of a Doppler shifted pilot signal in a satellite or other communications system with relative signal source and receiver motion. The satellite communications system includes a user terminal (for example, a mobile wireless telephone), a gateway (terrestrial base station), and at least one satellite with unknown position and unknown relative velocity. The method includes the steps of shifting the pilot signal over a plurality of frequency hypotheses, coherently accumulating samples of the pilot signal over a plurality of chips, measuring the energy of the accumulated pilot signal samples, accumulating the energy measurements over a plurality of chips to produce an energy accumulation value, and determining which of the plurality of frequency hypotheses results in the highest energy accumulation value.
Abstract:
Methods, systems, and devices are described for providing flexible bandwidth waveforms and channels for wireless communication. Embodiments may utilize portions of spectrum that may not be large enough to fit a standard or normal waveform. Chip rates may be adapted dynamically to generate and/or to receive flexible bandwidth waveforms to fit these portions of spectrum. Scaling factors and/or center frequencies may also be utilized to generate flexible waveforms. A mobile device may receive adjustment information from a base station so that the mobile device may dynamically adjust its chip rate to utilize a flexible bandwidth channel. A base station may simultaneously transmit on a normal bandwidth channel and a flexible bandwidth channel in some cases. Some flexible bandwidth waveforms may be utilized that are larger, or take more bandwidth, than a normal waveform. Flexible bandwidth may also be utilized to split and/or combine frequency channels.
Abstract:
A base station for establishing a picocell is configured so as to provide multiple sectors, with spatial diversity between sectors. The combination of the multiple sectors and the spatial diversity reduces signal power requirements in the air interface within a confined space and provides improvements in quality of service.