Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for an improved demodulation process that considers thermal noise for one or more antennas mounted on a receiver, regarding noise variance estimation in wireless communications. SOLUTION: Noise variance estimation includes: receiving a signal including an OFDM symbol having in-band tones including in-band pilot tones and band-edge tones including band-edge pilot tones and guard tones; estimating an equivalent noise variance for the in-band tones using the in-band pilot tones and channel estimates for the in-band pilot tones; and estimating an equivalent noise variance for the band-edge tones using the band-edge pilot tones, channel estimates for the band-edge pilot tones, and the guard tones. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accomplish an equalizer in which pull-in is performed at a high speed and accuracy is improved even under a fast varying environment. SOLUTION: The present method is for optimizing an equalizer at a receiver in a communication system by training virtual parallel equalizers. Multiple configurations are applied for training an equalizer, and a performance measurement or estimate is determined. The performance measures of the multiple configurations are compared to determine the optimum configuration. The training and selection are performed at a sample rate sufficiently higher than the received sample rate as to allow optimization in between processing of data samples. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid error propagation by compensating for slicer errors while using a correction term in hybrid decision feedback equalization. SOLUTION: Filter coefficients for an equalizer are selected so as to minimize the cost function related to an equalizer, including a correction term as a function of the energy of the filter coefficients. The equalizer includes a coefficient generator that are responsive to the correction term. A transmitted symbol from a received sample as a function of Signal-to-Interference and Noise Ratio (SINR) of the received sample is estimated. The received sample is quantized and mapped to a region of a grid overlaid on the transmitted symbol constellation. The region may correspond to a symbol estimate value or may be processed further to obtain a symbol estimate value. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce error propagation in decision feedback equalization.SOLUTION: In a method and apparatus for hybrid decision feedback equalization, a correction term is used to compensate for slicer errors, and thus error propagation is avoided. Filter coefficients for an equalizer are selected so as to minimize a cost function for the equalizer, including a correction term as a function of energy of the filter coefficients. The equalizer includes a coefficient generator responsive to the correction term. One embodiment estimates a transmitted symbol from a received sample as a function of Signal-to-Interference and Noise Ratio (SINR) of the received sample. The received sample is quantized and mapped to a region of a grid overlaid on the transmitted symbol constellation. The region may correspond to a symbol estimate value or may be processed further to obtain a symbol estimate value.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide multiple analog and digital downconversion. SOLUTION: In a carrier recovery method using multiple stages of carrier frequency recovery, a receiver uses multiple frequency generation sources to generate carrier signals used to downconvert a received signal. An analog frequency reference 114 having a wide frequency range and coarse frequency resolution is used in conjunction with a digital frequency reference 110 having a narrow frequency range and fine frequency resolution. The multiple carrier signals are multiplied by a received signal to effect a multi-stage downconversion, resulting in a baseband signal. A frequency tracking module 108 measures the residual frequency error present in the baseband signal. The measured residual frequency error is then used to adjust the frequencies of the carrier signals generated by the multiple frequency generation sources 114 and 110 through a processor. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce interference caused by concurrent broadcast transmissions from multiple transmitters.SOLUTION: Synchronized broadcast transmits the same broadcast content using the same waveform from multiple transmitters. The transmitters each apply the same spreading code for broadcast transmissions. In a spread-spectrum communication system having a time division multiplexed forward link, a synchronized broadcast transmission is inserted into a broadcast slot. An Orthogonal Frequency Divisional Multiplex (OFDM) waveform is used for the synchronized broadcast transmission. An OFDM receiver is then used to process the received synchronized broadcast transmission. A broadcast Pseudo-random Noise (PN) code is used for use by multiple transmitters. An equalizer is then used to estimate the synchronized broadcast transmission.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of transmitting, by synchronized broadcast, the same broadcast content using the same waveform from multiple transmitters.SOLUTION: Transmitters each apply the same spreading code for broadcast transmissions. In a spread-spectrum communication system having a time division multiplexed forward link, a synchronized broadcast transmission is inserted into a broadcast slot. One embodiment employs an Orthogonal Frequency Divisional Multiplex (OFDM) waveform for the synchronized broadcast transmission. An OFDM receiver is then used to process the received synchronized broadcast transmission. An alternate embodiment implements a broadcast Pseudo-random Noise (PN) code for use by multiple transmitters. An equalizer is then employed to estimate the synchronized broadcast transmission.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for noise variance estimation in wireless communications.SOLUTION: Noise variance estimation is made by a noise variance estimator 504 that receives a signal including an OFDM symbol having in-band tones including in-band pilot tones and band-edge tones including band-edge pilot tones and guard tones. The noise variance estimator 504 includes an in-band estimator 702 configured to compute effective noise variance for the in-band tones using the in-band pilot tones and channel estimates for the in-band pilot tones, and a band-edge estimator 704 configured to compute effective noise variance for the band-edge tones using the band-edge pilot tones, channel estimates for the in-band pilot tones, and the guard tones.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce linear distortion in a received signal over a variety of operating conditions, to reduce error propagation in a decision feedback equalizer and to provide a likelihood measure to the decision feedback process.SOLUTION: In a hybrid decision feedback equalizer, a correction term is used to compensate for slicer errors, thus avoiding error propagation. Filter coefficients for the equalizer include a correction term as a function of the energy of the filter coefficients and the filter coefficients are selected so as to minimize a cost function for the equalizer. The equalizer includes a coefficient generator responsive to the correction term. One embodiment estimates a transmitted symbol from a received sample as a function of Signal-to-Interference and Noise Ratio (SINR) of the received sample.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow synchronized broadcast to transmit a same broadcast content using a same waveform from multiple transmitters. SOLUTION: Transmitters each apply a same spreading code for broadcast transmissions. In a spread-spectrum communication system having a time division multiplexed forward link, a synchronized broadcast transmission is inserted into a broadcast slot. One embodiment employs an Orthogonal Frequency Divisional Multiplex (OFDM) waveform for the synchronized broadcast. An OFDM receiver is then used to process the received synchronized broadcast transmission. An alternate embodiment implements a Pseudo-random Noise (PN) code for use by multiple transmitters. An equalizer is then employed to estimate the synchronized broadcast transmission. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT