Abstract:
Methodology, and associated circuitry, for encoding and decoding an incoming data stream utilize a coordinated code constellation that effects robust signal detection in the presence of channel interference. The encoder partitions the incoming data stream into contiguous data segments in proportion to the number of levels for a given coordinated code. Each data segment is mapped with reference to the coordinated code to signal levels suitable for transmission over a plurality of channels. The decoder measures the received signals on the channels and estimates noise statistics for the channels. A metric relationship engendered by the coordinated code is evaluated with reference to the received signals, estimates to the received signals, and the noise statistics. An output data stream is then generated based on the evaluation of the metric.
Abstract:
The average RF power output of an independent sideband diversity radio transmitter, modulated by a multiple tone data signal, is increased while the RF output peak envelope voltage is held constant. For diversity operation the same information, as a combination of the data tones, is applied to both the upper and lower sideband channels of the RF translator. Adding predetermined phase shifts between the upper and lower sideband audio tone pairs results in a reduced peak envelope voltage at the composite RF output. The final RF amplifier gain can then be increased resulting in a higher average RF power output.
Abstract:
A combiner for a radio receiving signal which receives signals having various signal paths of a digital radio transmitter, particularly a mobile transmitter. The combiner is designed so it allows maximum power gain in broadband systems and can also be used in systems which have pulse or discontinuous transmission. A correlator is provided at the receiver in every signal path. Frequency converters are also in each signal path. Following the frequency converter and following each of the correlators there is provided a metric table in each path which had been calculated in accordance with the respective line model obtained at the receiver. The output values formed from the metric tables and individual signals are combined and supplied to a Viterbi demodulator which produces the corrected output signal.
Abstract:
Interleavers used in fading channel applications can be matched to a particular trellis or block code being used. This matching can occur even in a particular transmission scheme such as TDMA. Matching both the interleaver and the code increases the separation between interdependent signal points and provides an improvement in error performance, without an increase in time delay over known interleaver design.
Abstract:
Apparatus and method for processing a common digital signal received at plural receivers in which each received signal is validated and aligned in time with the other signals. A single output signal is generated from the received signals using a voting scheme such as one in which the logic state of the majority of corresponding bits in the received signals determines the logic state of the bits in the generated signal. If there is no majority, the logic state of the best performing signal is used without revoting, or the vote is retaken without the poorest performing signal.
Abstract:
Information signals (Y1, C1; Y2, C2: Y3, C3) relating to the same video image but each defining the image with a different accuracy are transmitted asynchronously and on a time division basis as packet sets (Y1, C1; Y21, C21; Y32, C32). In a receiving station (SS2) the information signals are derived from the received packet sets and by means of selection circuit (SEC1/3) two or more of these signals are supplied to a combination device (VTE) and are combined therein to form an image.
Abstract:
At transmission (10) each bit for transmission is coded as a function of its state by producing (12) a particular coding frequency combination, these being divided into two distinct bands spaced one from another and the coding combinations being chosen such that frequencies ranked in the same sequence place in these combinations do not occupy the same frequency band. A signal comprising the coding combination is injected to the network (N,P) and at reception (20), is applied to demodulators (22, 23), each assigned to one respective frequency band, to be correlated with locally generated signals (25, 26) which reproduce the coding combinations with a constant frequency shift, the bit state being determined (24) as a function of the correlation output.
Abstract:
The reliability of a high-speed digital data traffic channel is determined by establishing end-to-end synchronization by use of confirming error detecting data transmitted on a side channel from an originating end, comparing the traffic data and the error detecting data and from time to time re-confirming the validity of the synchronization.
Abstract:
A forward error correcting digital transmission system having two separate transmission channels carrying redundant information. The signal on the first channel is encoded by combining each present bit with itself delayed m bits in time. The signal on the second channel may be encoded in the same manner only with a delay of n bits in time, or left without coding, i.e., n=0, in any case m and n are unequal integers. Both first and second channels are transmitted over separate transmission paths to the receiving terminal where each is independently decoded to obtain the original binary information from each received encoded signal.If an error is introduced into one of the channels during transmission, the encoded information necessarily contains an error in the present bit and its associated m or n delayed bit. Upon detection of an error by simple bit comparisons between the two decoded channels, the present decoded bit and its associated delayed decoded bit, if any, are changed in the apropriate channel in order to correct for the error.
Abstract:
A data transmission system is described where data signals are bidirectionally transmitted between a data transmitter and a plurality of data receivers in a self-clocking bit streams carried on true data and complement data signal lines and a non-return-to-zero (NRZ) bit streams on a return data signal line. According to an inventive data transmission scheme, data signals are transmitted by the data transmitter by utilizing the four possible two-bit binary states of the true data and complement data signal lines. Of the four two-bit binary states, a word state is provided before and after the data signal and a one state or zero state followed by a bit state is provided for each bit of the data signal. The data receivers detect the bit state to recover a bit clock signal and detect the one state and zero state to recover an NRZ data signal. In response to the bit clock signal, the NRZ data signal is serially shifted into a register while a previously parallel loaded return data signal is shifted out of the register and applied to the return data signal line. The inventive data transmission scheme is self-clocking and highly immune to speed and timing variations in the transmission. The inventive data transmission may be advantageously utilized for data transmission in many different data transmission systems, such as computer systems for data transmission between a microprocessor and peripheral units and control systems for data transmission between a central control station and geographically remote stations.