Abstract:
To obtain frame synchronization and identify the cell codegroup in a cellular communication system (such as a system based upon the standard 3GPP FDD), there are available the synchronization codes (SSCH) organized in chips or letters transmitted at the beginning of respective slots. Slot synchronization is obtained previously in a first step of the operation of cell search. During a second step, there are acquired, by means of correlation (10) or fast Hadamard transform, the energy values corresponding to the respective individual letters with reference to the possible starting positions of the corresponding frame within the respective slot. Operating in a serial way (24) at the end of acquisition of the aforesaid energy values of the individual letters, or else operating in parallel, the energies of the corresponding words are determined. Of these eneriges only the maximum word-energy value and the information for the corresponding starting position are stored in a memory structure (22). Said maximum value and said starting position identify, respectively, the cell codes and the frame synchronization sought. A preferential application is in mobile communication systems based upon standards such as UMTS, CDMA2000, IS95, or WBCDMA.
Abstract:
In order to generate the main scrambling code of order N and the secondary scrambling code of order K within the set identified by the primary scrambling code of order N, a first m-sequence and a second m-sequence are generated using Fibonacci linear feedback shift registers (LFSRs). Then said first m-sequence and said second m-sequence are modulo-2 added so as to form the I branch of said primary scrambling code. A first T-bit masking word and a second T-bit masking word of rank 0 (X0-MASK, Y0-MASK) are generated that correspond to the polynomial time shifts (X0 (D), Y0 (D)), and the intermediate taps of the X and y registers respectively chosen by means of said masking words (X0-MASK, Y0-MASK) are modulo-2 added so as to generate a third sequence and a fourth sequence which are modulo-2 added together to form the Q branch of said primary scrambling code. With the choice, starting from the least significant Kmax bits of the register X, of the K-th intermediate tap corresponding to the secondary scrambling code of order K within said set identified by the primary scrambling code of order N, a fifth sequence is generated, which, modulo-2 added to said second sequence, forms the I branch of said secondary scrambling code. By modulo-2 summing the intermediate taps of the register X masked by means of the aforesaid first masking word of rank N (XN-MASK), a sixth sequence is generated, which, modulo-2 added to the aforesaid fourth sequence, forms the Q branch of the secondary scrambling code.
Abstract:
Encoded digital symbols (S 1 S 2 S 3 S 4 ) are transmitted via a first pair of antennas (Tx1, Tx2) and at least one second pair of antennas (Tx3, Tx4). The sets of symbols used for the transmission via the second pair of antennas (Tx3, Tx4) are re-ordered temporally (S 3 S 4 S 1 S 2 ) into subsets of symbols with respect to the symbols used for the first pair of antennas (Tx1, Tx2). For the first pair of antennas (Tx1, Tx2) there is used a signal subjected to encoding with a code-division-multiple-access code (CDMA) and subjected to spreading with a spreading code (c 1 ), and, likewise, for the second pair or pairs of antennas (Tx3, Tx4) there are used signals subjected to encoding with respective code-division-multiple-access code (CDMA) and subjected to spreading with a respective spreading code (c 2 ). At least one between the respective code-division-multiple-access code (CDMA) and the respective spreading code (c 2 ) used for the transmission via the second pair of antennas (Tx3, Tx4) is different from the code-division-multiple-access code (CDMA) and from the spreading code (c 1 ) used for the transmission via the first pair of antennas (Tx1, Tx2). The solution can be extended to the use of a plurality of second pairs of antennas in transmission and/or to the use of a plurality of antennas in reception.
Abstract:
A method for automatic gain control, e.g. in a receiver for a mobile telecommunication system comprises the operations of:
mixing (13) a received signal (S in ) with an error signal ( P err , P f ); performing an analog-to-digital conversion (14) on the result of said mixing operation, in order to obtain a controlled output signal ( x(t) , S out ); measuring (25) the power ( P meas ) of said controlled output signal (x(t), S out ); subtracting the measured power (P meas ) from a reference power ( P ref ) in order to obtain said error signal ( P err , P f ).
According to the proposed method the operation of measuring the power of the controlled output signal ( x(t) , S out ) comprises:
setting at least a power threshold ( T h ;T h1 , T h2 , T h3 ); measuring (27) a rate of crossings of said power threshold ( T h ; T h1 , T h2 , T h3 ) by said controlled output signal ( x(t) , S out ) in a given observation window; deriving (29) from said number of crossings the measured power value ( P meas , σ 2=1 ).
The proposed method is particularly suitable for application in receivers of mobile telecommunication systems based on CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access), but also for mobile telecommunication system according to GSM, UMTS, CDMA2000, IS95 o WBCDMA standards and satellite telecommunication systems.