Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090004986 | METHOD OF FEEDING BACK CHANNEL INFORMATION AND RECEIVER FOR FEEDING BACK CHANNEL INFORMATION - Provided is a receiver for feeding back channel information, which includes a channel vector measuring unit to measure channel vectors corresponding to a plurality of receiving antennas, respectively, that receive a plurality of data streams, a candidate codebook vector selecting unit to select at least two candidate codebook vectors from codebook vectors included in a codebook, by considering a quantization error based on the channel vectors with respect to each of the data streams, and a selection codebook vector determining unit to determine selection codebook vectors corresponding to the plurality of data streams respectively from the at least two candidate codebook vectors, based on a signal-to-interference and noise ratio (SINR) of each of the data streams that is calculated according to each of the candidate codebook vectors. | 01-01-2009 |
20100041406 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING PRIMARY USER AND SECONDARY USER - A communication system for supporting a primary user and a secondary user is provided. A base station of a communication system, includes a scheduler to group at least one primary user and at least one secondary user corresponding to each of the at least one primary user according to characteristics of services desired by users, a superposition coding unit to perform superposition coding for primary data associated with the at least one primary user and secondary data associated with the at least one secondary user to generate a transmission data stream, and a beamformer to perform beamforming for the transmission data stream. | 02-18-2010 |
20100093361 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION OF DYNAMIC FEEDBACK CHANNEL INFORMATION IN A MIMO SYSTEM - A base station apparatus and method of transmission of dynamic feedback channel information in a MIMO system. The base station apparatus includes a first channel state information receiving unit to receive a first channel state information; a receiving terminal selection unit to select at least one receiving terminal to receive data from among a plurality of terminals; a quantization length determination unit to independently determine a second quantization length of the selected receiving terminal; a quantization length transmission unit to transmit the second quantization length to the selected e receiving terminal; a second channel state information receiving unit to receive second channel state information from the selected receiving terminal; and a data transmission unit to transmit data to the selected receiving terminal using a plurality of transmission antennas of a base station based on the second channel state information. | 04-15-2010 |
20100112937 | DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM FOR FORWARDING DATA USING A PLURALITY OF ANTENNAS - A data transmission system transmitting data using a relay is provided. The relay selects a transmission terminal from a plurality of terminals connected to a base station. During a first time slot, the base station transmits base station data to the relay and the transmission terminal transmits terminal data to the relay. The relay transmits the terminal data to the base station and transmits the base station data to the transmission terminal during a second time slot. | 05-06-2010 |
20110158335 | UNITARY PRECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD IN MULTI-USER MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT (MIMO) COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a multi-user multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication system using the same radio resource, a unitary matrix may be generated to remove interference signals and enhance a transmission capacity. The unitary matrix may be used for precoding. Vectors included in the unitary matrix may have a most similar direction to precoding vectors of target terminal devices and may be orthogonal to each other. | 06-30-2011 |
20110279244 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING POWER AND DATA - Provided is an apparatus and a method for transmitting power to electronic devices and of transmitting and receiving data. The method of transmitting power includes searching for a device to be charged located in an area, determining whether the found device needs charging, and transmitting power to the found device when the found device is determined to need charging. The apparatus may be mobile, and may travel towards or away from one or more devices based on whether the one or more devices need charging. | 11-17-2011 |
20110310752 | MULTI-USER MIMO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING FEEDBACK INFORMATION - The effective performance metric and achieving method of a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) communication system are provided. A number of feedback bits of channel information may be determined based on an effective spectral efficiency (ESE). The ESE may correspond to a metric of the throughput performance with respect to a total radio resource including an uplink radio resource and a downlink radio resource. User-scheduling may be based on the feedback information that is based on the ESE, and thus, the throughput performance of the communication system may be enhanced. | 12-22-2011 |
20120163502 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING A SIGNAL - Provided are an apparatus and method for acquiring a signal to noise ratio (SNR) gain and a diversity gain using multiple antennas for receiving data, and an apparatus for receiving a signal using multiple antennas. The apparatus may receive on-off keying modulated signals through K receiving antennas, detect envelopes with respect to each of the signals received through the K receiving antennas, combine signals generated by performing a linear processing and a nonlinear processing with respect to each of the K detected envelopes, and determine a message value of the on-off keying modulated signals. | 06-28-2012 |
20120289150 | DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM FOR FORWARDING DATA USING A PLURALITY OF ANTENNAS - A data transmission system transmitting data using a relay is provided. The relay selects a transmission terminal from a plurality of terminals connected to a base station. During a first time slot, the base station transmits base station data to the relay and the transmission terminal transmits terminal data to the relay. The relay transmits the terminal data to the base station and transmits the base station data to the transmission terminal during a second time slot. | 11-15-2012 |
20130101013 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO DETECT A SYMBOL IN RECEIVER INCLUDING MULTIPLE RECEIVING ANTENNAS - A receiver of a wireless communication system and method thereof include antennas configured to receive data, wherein the data comprises a preamble, a header, and a payload. The receiver also includes a synchronizer configured to perform time synchronization of the data received through corresponding paths of each antenna using corresponding preambles of the data. The receiver includes a header detector configured to detect a header from the data of each of the paths. A surviving path selector in the receiver is configured to select a signal of a surviving path from among the paths based on the header or the preamble. The receiver also includes combiner configured to combine the signal existing in the surviving path to demodulate the payload. | 04-25-2013 |
20130107988 | ULTRA-LOW POWER SUPER-REGENERATIVE RECEIVER AND METHOD THEREOF | 05-02-2013 |
20130155927 | LOW POWER WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUSES AND METHOD THEREOF - Provided are low-power wireless communication apparatuses and a method thereof. A hub may receive a beacon signal from a neighboring hub that is within a predetermined area from the hub, and control an operation of a node served by the hub based on information received from the neighboring hub. | 06-20-2013 |
20130170588 | ULTRA LOW POWER SUPER-REGENERATIVE RECEIVER AND METHOD THEREOF - An ultra low power super-regenerative receiver is provided. The ultra low power super-regenerative receiver includes a bit synchronizer configured to use a value sampled from a signal output from a super-regenerative oscillator to estimate a pulse-level position having a maximum amplitude value in a single period of a received symbol, a frame synchronizer configured to combine a plurality of pulse-level positions determined based on the estimated pulse-level position, and detect a predetermined bit sequence using the plurality of pulse-level positions combined, the frame synchronizer being configured to perform frame synchronization, and a data detector configured to detect data using the plurality of pulse-level positions determined after the frame synchronization is completed. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173999 | HIERARCHICAL MODULATION AND DEMODULATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - An apparatus and method for hierarchical modulation and demodulation in a wireless communication network are provided. A hierarchical modulation apparatus may map information bits to a plurality of levels based on a predetermined level map, may generate an error verification code for each of the levels based on the information bits mapped to the levels, may generate coded information bits for each of the levels, and may map bits in a predetermined position among the coded information bits, to Pulse-Position Modulation (PPM) symbols in a sequence of the levels. | 07-04-2013 |
20130178150 | HUB, RELAY NODE, AND NODE FOR RECONFIGURING ACTIVE STATE POSITION IN WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK (WBAN), AND COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREOF - Provided are a hub, a relay node, and a node for reconfiguring an active time position of a node in a WBAN. An active time position of the node may be reconfigured based on information associated with an active time position of a candidate relay node that the node desires to use as a relay node. | 07-11-2013 |
20130188653 | METHOD AND NODE FOR PREVENTING COLLISION BETWEEN NETWORKS COMMUNICATING BASED ON CSMA/CA - A method and a target node for preventing collisions between networks communicating based on a carrier sense multiple access/collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) scheme, are provided. The method includes synchronizing an object network with a neighboring network. The method further includes allocating, to the object network, a slot index based on a number of the networks, and a contention window (CW) size. The method further includes setting, for the object network, a back-off counter value based on the CW size. The method further includes reducing the back-off counter value based on a channel state of the object network, and the slot index. The method further includes transmitting data related to the neighboring network based on the back-off counter value. | 07-25-2013 |
20130195083 | MAIN HUB, SUB HUB, AND SENSOR NODE COMMUNICATING IN WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK (WBAN) INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE SUB HUB, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREOF - A main hub, a sub hub, and a sensor node communicating in a wireless body area network (WBAN) including at least one sub hub, and a communication method thereof, are provided. A communication method of the main hub, includes assigning a beacon slot to the sub hub. The method further includes receiving, from the sub hub, a beacon signal based on the beacon slot. The method further includes verifying whether the sub hub includes data to be transmitted to the main hub based on the beacon signal. The method further includes receiving, from the sub hub, the data based on a result of the verification. | 08-01-2013 |
20140044222 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING RECEIVED SIGNAL USING MEDIAN ABSOLUTE DEVIATION - A method of detecting a received signal, includes determining correlation between a received signal in a predetermined signal interval and training symbols, and determining a median absolute deviation (MAD) of the received signal in a predetermined reference interval. The method further includes detecting a presence of the received signal based on the correlation and the MAD. | 02-13-2014 |
20140169513 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM INCLUDING MULTIPLE RECEIVING ANTENNAS AND TIME TRACKING METHOD THEREOF - A tracking method and apparatus of a communication system to prevent a timing difference and bit error rate performance degradation caused by unstable characteristics of a plurality of circuit devices are provided. The tracking method and apparatus include sampling signals received at receiving antennas, tracking sample values resulting from the sampling of the signals, and combining the tracked sample values. | 06-19-2014 |
20140171002 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO ADAPTIVELY SET THRESHOLD TO DETECT TRANSMISSION SYMBOL IN OOK RECEIVER - An apparatus and method are provided to adaptively set a threshold to detect a transmission symbol. The apparatus and method calculate detection parameters to determine the threshold to detect the transmission symbol based on probability distribution parameters, which determine a statistical probability distribution of an input signal. The apparatus and method adaptively detect a present transmission symbol using a previously detected transmission symbol and the detection parameters. | 06-19-2014 |
20140173387 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING BIT SEQUENCE ROBUSTLY TO CHANGE OF DC OFFSET IN OOK RECEIVER - A method of detecting a bit sequence, includes estimating parameters to be used to determine a probability distribution of a present signal in each of states of a present time, and calculating metrics of the respective states based on the parameters. The method further includes selecting survivor states from the states based on the metrics, and detecting the bit sequence based on a path to each of the survivor states. | 06-19-2014 |
20140273813 | HUB, RELAY NODE, AND NODE FOR RECONFIGURING ACTIVE STATE POSITION IN WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK (WBAN), AND COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREOF - Provided are a hub, a relay node, and a node for reconfiguring an active time position of a node in a WBAN. An active time position of the node may be reconfigured based on information associated with an active time position of a candidate relay node that the node desires to use as a relay node. | 09-18-2014 |
20140369444 | TRANSMITTER, RECEIVER, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREOF - A transmitter is configured to transmit a radio frequency (RF) signal to a receiver. The receiver is configured to receive the RF signal and decode data. Furthermore, a method of wireless communication is provided between the transmitter and the receiver, in which the transmitter transmits to the receiver the RF signal. A carrier phase of the RF signal is randomly converted. The receiver detects an envelope of the RF signal, and extracts data from the RF signal. | 12-18-2014 |
20150036768 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVELY SETTING THRESHOLD FOR SIGNAL DEMODULATION - Provided is a method and apparatus to adaptively set a threshold for signal demodulation. The apparatus and the method include adaptively setting a threshold to demodulate a currently received symbol based on the demodulation value of a previously received symbol based on a comparison value. The comparison value is obtained by comparing a number of previously received symbols having a demodulation value of “0” and a number of currently received symbols having a demodulation value of “1”. | 02-05-2015 |
20150043402 | RECEPTION NODE AND TRANSMISSION NODE FOR SAVING ENERGY OF RECEPTION NODE, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREOF - A communication method of a transmission node includes generating information of a transmission unavailable time period of the transmission node in a reception available time period of a reception node, and transmitting, to the reception node, the information of the transmission unavailable time period. The reception node operates in a sleep state based on the information of the transmission unavailable time period. | 02-12-2015 |
20150043682 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING THRESHOLD FOR SYMBOL DETECTION - A method of determining a threshold for symbol detection, includes receiving a most previously input sample value and a result of detecting a most previous symbol, and determining the threshold for the symbol detection of a currently input sample value based on the most previously input sample value and the result of detecting the most previous symbol. | 02-12-2015 |