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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide decision feedback equalization techniques to perform equalization in a manner to achieve good performance in a communication system. SOLUTION: A channel impulse response is estimated and converted to obtain a channel frequency response and a feed-forward filter response is derived on the basis of the channel frequency response and an initialized feedback correlation matrix. A feedback filter response is obtained similarly on the basis of the channel frequency response and the initialized feedback correlation matrix. On the basis of the feed-forward and feedback filter responses, equalization for an input symbol is executed, the equalized symbol is sliced for acquiring a chip estimate. If equalization is performed for multiple iterations, then, for each iteration, a reliability parameter may be updated, the feed-forward and feedback filter responses may be derived on the basis of the updated reliability parameter, and equalization may be performed with the filter responses for the iteration. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simplify computational complexity in correcting a signal transmitted via a channel by estimating the behavior of the channel. SOLUTION: The method includes receiving a signal transmitted over a channel. The received signal includes a known signal and an information signal. The method further includes determining at least one indicator indicative of channel characteristics based on at least a portion of the partly known signal. The method further includes generating a first value indicative of the information signal based on at least one indicator being partly channel characteristics. The first value includes an error signal. The method further includes removing the error signal from the first estimate of the signal based on at least the portion of the partly known signal. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques for selecting transmit formats in a manner to account for the degrees of resource reuse for multiple data streams sent simultaneously from multiple antennas. SOLUTION: The degree of resource reuse for each data stream indicates the amount of reuse of resources (e.g., orthogonal codes or subcarriers) observed by the data stream. Interference estimates for the multiple data streams are derived based on an initial resource assignment. The degrees of resource reuse are determined based on the interference estimates and are used to derive at least one correction factor (410). Then, at least one transmit format is selected for the data streams using the at least one correction factor (420). In accordance with a transmit format that indicates the amount of resources in use for the data stream and other parameters, resources are assigned to each data stream (430). COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent degenerative decoding performance of MIMO when channel coefficient vectors of multiplexed stream are relatively close or correlated. SOLUTION: A multi-input/output system includes a receiver, a processor, a bit scrambler, a bit descrambler, and a transmitter. The receiver generates demodulated symbol streams corresponding to a received signal. The processor generates coded bit sequences from source bit streams when operating in a transmit mode and bit log-likelihood ratio sequences from the information bit streams when operating in a receive mode. The bit scrambler scrambles the bit sequences to generate scrambled bit streams when in the transmit mode, and descrambles the log-likelihood ratio sequences by a real-valued descrambling sequence when operating in the receive mode, to remove the scrambling sequence. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
Un aparato para comunicación inalámbrica, que comprende: medios para obtener (612) un vector de precodificación para una transmisión de rango 1 de un primer conjunto que comprende al menos un vector de columna de una matriz unitaria; medios para realizar (614) precodificación para la transmisión de rango 1 basada en el vector de precodificación; medios para obtener (616) una matriz de precodificación para una transmisión de rango 2 de un segundo conjunto que comprende una matriz de identidad y una o más matrices unitarias; y medios para realizar (618) precodificación para la transmisión de rango 2 basada en la matriz de precodificación.
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Un procedimiento para comunicación inalámbrica, que comprende: usar (1016) una primera secuencia para intercambiar información en un primer intervalo de tiempo, estando modulada la primera secuencia por la primera información, en el que la primera secuencia para intercambiar información comprende generar una primera secuencia modulada basándose en una primera secuencia y en un primer símbolo de modulación y enviar K símbolos para la primera secuencia modulada en K subportadoras consecutivas en un primer intervalo de tiempo; y utilizar (1018) una segunda secuencia para intercambiar información en un segundo intervalo de tiempo en el que usar la segunda secuencia para intercambiar información comprende generar una segunda secuencia modulada basándose en la segunda secuencia y en un segundo símbolo de modulación, y enviar K símbolos para la segunda secuencia modulada en K subportadoras consecutivas en el segundo intervalo de tiempo, siendo la segunda secuencia un desplazamiento cíclico de la primera secuencia y estando modulada por la segunda información, y que comprende además: generar la primera secuencia desplazando cíclicamente una secuencia base una primera cantidad; y generar la segunda secuencia desplazando cíclicamente la secuencia base una segunda cantidad, en el que el desplazamiento cíclico para las secuencias primera y segunda se determina basándose en un patrón de salto específico de la célula.