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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques to transmit data on a number of transmission channels in a multi-channel communication system using multiple transmission schemes requiring less channel-state information (CSI).SOLUTION: Transmission schemes 200 may include: a partial-CSI transmission scheme that transmits a single data stream on each transmit antenna selected for use; and a "beam-forming" transmission scheme that allocates all transmit power to a single transmission channel having the best performance. Each transmission scheme may provide good or near-optimum performance for a specific range of operating conditions (or operating SNRs). Therefore, these multiple transmission schemes may then be combined in a piece-wise fashion to form a "multi-mode" transmission scheme that covers the full range of operating conditions supported by the MIMO system.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques to transmit data on a number of transmission channels in a multi-channel communication system using multiple transmission schemes requiring less channel-state information (CSI). SOLUTION: These schemes may also include a partial-CSI transmission scheme that transmits a single data stream on each transmit antenna selected for use and a "beam-forming" transmission scheme that allocates all transmit power to a single transmission channel having the best performance. Each transmission scheme may provide good or near-optimum performance for a specific range of operating conditions (or operating SNRs). These multiple transmission schemes may then be combined by division to form a "multi-mode" transmission scheme that covers the full range of operating conditions supported by the MIMO system. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for controlling power to transmit a plurality of data flows in a radio multiple channel (e.g., MIMO) communication system. SOLUTION: A plurality of received symbol flows are processed according to a specific receiver processing technology (e.g., CCMI, CCMI-SC, MMSE or MMSE-SC) to first give a plurality of detected data flows. Post-detection SNRs of the detected data flows are evaluated and respective SNRs exceeding a set point is identified. This set point is correspondent to (1) an SNR required to obtain a maximum permissible spectral efficiency or (2) a target SNR required to obtain a specified spectral efficiency. A new (or adjusted) transmission power of each detected data flow related to the post-detection SNR exceeding the set point is determined and applied to the data flow. A different power control method is applied to a class of different receiver processing technique having a different characteristic. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for identifying a reference point in time in a wireless communication system.SOLUTION: The method includes: receiving a first repeated sequence of symbols; receiving a second repeated sequence of symbols; performing autocorrelation between the first and second sequences of symbols; and identifying as the reference point in time an autocorrelation null between the first and second repeated sequences of symbols. An apparatus for identifying the reference point in time includes: means for receiving the first repeated sequence of symbols; means for receiving the second repeated sequence of symbols; means for performing autocorrelation between the first and second sequences of symbols; and means for identifying as the reference point in time the autocorrelation null between the first and second repeated sequences of symbols.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques for performing detection and decoding with reduced complexity while achieving good performance for a MIMO receiver.SOLUTION: Spatial processing is performed on a set of received symbols (812). Extrinsic LLRs are computed independently for each of at least one data symbol on the basis of a corresponding detected symbol and a priori LLRs, if any, from a decoder (814). A list of candidate hypotheses is determined for the remaining data symbols by performing a search using LSD, etc. (816). Extrinsic LLRs are computed for the remaining data symbols with the list of candidate hypotheses (818). The extrinsic LLRs for all the data symbols are decoded to obtain a priori LLRs for a detector (820). A determination is made whether to perform iteration (822). The extrinsic LLRs from the detector are processed to obtain decoded data (826).
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques for performing phase correction for wireless communication.SOLUTION: Received pilot symbols and received data symbols are obtained from an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and/or multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission. First phase information is obtained based upon the received pilot symbols. Second phase information is obtained based upon the received data symbols. The phase of the received data symbols is corrected based upon the first and second phase information (directly and/or indirectly). For example, the phase of the received data symbols may be corrected based upon the first phase information, detection may be performed on the phase corrected data symbols to obtain estimated data symbols, the second phase information may be obtained based upon the estimated data symbols, and the phase of the estimated data symbols may be corrected based upon the second phase information. The phase correction may also be performed in various manners.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a receiver structure for spatial spreading with space-time or space-frequency transmit diversity.SOLUTION: A receiving entity 150 obtains received symbols for data transmission, which has at least one data symbol stream sent with space-time transmit diversity (STTD). The receiving entity derives an overall channel response matrix in accordance with an STTD encoding scheme used for the data transmission, derives a spatial filter matrix based on the overall channel response matrix, and performs spatial matched filtering on a vector of the received symbols for each 2-symbol interval to obtain a vector of detected symbols for the 2-symbol interval. The receiving entity may perform post-processing (e.g., conjugation) on the detected symbols if needed. Alternatively, the receiving entity derives the spatial filter matrix based on an effective channel response matrix, performs the spatial matched filtering on the received symbols for each symbol period to obtain detected symbols.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rate combination with a highest overall throughput and a non-negative total SNR (Signal Noise Ratio) margin. SOLUTION: For rate selection with margin sharing in a system with a vector-quantized rate set, SNR estimates are obtained for usable transmission channels. The total SNR margin is determined for each rate combination based on the SNR estimates for the transmission channels. Each rate combination is associated with a specific number of data streams to transmit, a rate for each data stream and an efficient overall throughput. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of reallocating excess power for full channel-state information (CSI) multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) systems. SOLUTION: The total transmit power may be initially allocated to the transmission channels based on a particular power allocation scheme. The initial allocation may result in more power being allocated to some transmission channels than needed to achieve the required SNR. In such situations, the techniques reallocate the excess transmit power of transmission channels operated in the saturation region to other transmission channels operated below the saturation region. In this way, higher data rate may be achieved for the "poorer" transmission channels without sacrificing the performance of the "better" transmission channels. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques to transmit data on a number of transmission channels in a multi-channel communication system using multiple transmission schemes requiring less channel-state information (CSI). SOLUTION: A method for transmitting data on a plurality of transmission channels includes: determining an operating condition of a communication system and identifying a specific transmission scheme selected from among a plurality of possible transmission schemes on the basis of the determined operating condition (S214); and determining one or more data streams to be transmitted on the basis of the selected transmission scheme and processing the one or more data streams on the basis of the selected transmission scheme (S220). COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT