Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080267059 | Methods and arrangements to determine a reception of a signal - Methods and arrangements for wireless communications are described. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to receive from a transmitter a signal representing a known sequence of symbols. The signal may be transmitted over a plurality of sub channels. The embodiments may also include determining channel responses at the sub channels and determining a reception of the known sequence. The determining may include treating the channel responses at the sub channels in a differential manner to cancel out channel phase responses and obtain channel amplitudes. In some embodiments, the cancelling may be performed by multiplying frequency domain values representing reception of a sub channel by the complex conjugate of frequency domain values of a neighboring sub channel. Many embodiments may also include calculating a carrier to interference and noise ratio (CINR) of the signal. In several embodiments, the signal may represent the preamble of a wireless frame. | 10-30-2008 |
20090270044 | ESTIMATING STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF NOISE IN MODULATED DATA CARRIER SIGNALS - Methods, systems and apparatus for estimating statistical properties of noise in modulated data carrier signals represented by modulated data symbols are disclosed. The method comprises generating an instantaneous estimate of the statistical property of noise from the received modulated data symbols on a sample by sample basis and applying a compensation function to the instantaneous estimate. The method further comprises averaging an output of the compensation function to determine the estimated statistical property of noise. | 10-29-2009 |
20100226329 | BURST SIZE SIGNALING AND PARTITION RULE - A wireless network includes base stations and mobile stations. The base stations determine burst sizes and partitions, and signal this information to the mobile stations. | 09-09-2010 |
20100246696 | PILOT METHOD FOR 802.16M - A novel pilot method employs a cluster having a particular arrangement of pilot sub-carriers to optimize transmissions under 802.16m, or WiMAX-II. The optimally configured cluster features equal pilot density per OFDM symbol, two or more pilot sub-carriers per cluster, and interlaced pilot sub-carriers, which enables the base stations to successfully boost the pilot sub-carriers, for optimum performance. | 09-30-2010 |
20100272033 | HARQ BUFFER MANAGEMENT AND FEEDBACK DESIGN FOR A WIRELESS SYSTEM - A method is disclosed for performing HARQ buffer management. The HARQ buffer management method is a new approach to buffer overflow management that allows the mobile station, rather than the base station, to control the size of its buffer. The HARQ buffer management reports buffer size, buffer occupancy status, and buffer overflow to the base station, to facilitate efficient communication between the base station and the mobile station. | 10-28-2010 |
20100329160 | Apparatus, systems and methods for switching MIMO transmission techniques in wireless communication systems - An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus that may include a transceiver operable to communicate with a receiver in a wireless network and adapted to select an optimal mode for transmissions, wherein the receiver estimates the optimal mode and feeds it back to the transceiver which changes a transmitted mode accordingly and wherein the optimal mode is based on a predetermined metric based on a performance equation that puts a threshold to separate between a high correlated signal to low correlation signal. | 12-30-2010 |
20110044266 | Allocating Group Resources for Wireless Communications - A single format of MAC control message may be used for the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of users in a group within a wireless network. In some cases, a change in the nature of the group may be implemented immediately upon receipt of a positive acknowledgement. A mobile station may determine its ACID without maintaining information about the previous ACID or startup frame. | 02-24-2011 |
20110069773 | Method of identifying a precoding matrix corresponding to a wireless network channel and method of approximating a capacity of a wireless network channel in a wireless network - A method of identifying a precoding matrix corresponding to a wireless network channel comprises the steps of identifying a capacity metric that includes an identity matrix, approximating the capacity metric using an approximation metric that ignores the identity matrix, using the approximation metric to search over all matrices in a matrix codebook in order to identify a particular precoding matrix that increases a capacity of the wireless network channel, and transmitting across the wireless network channel a matrix index that corresponds to the particular precoding matrix. Additional techniques for identifying precoding matrices are also described herein, as is a method of approximating a capacity of a wireless network channel in a wireless network. | 03-24-2011 |
20110154145 | ADAPTIVE H-ARQ USING OUTAGE CAPACITY OPTIMIZATION - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a data packet comprising a first number of bits encoded over a first number of symbols is transmitted to a receiver. If the receiver did not successfully decode the data packet, a negative acknowledgment message is received along with metric information for the transmission. The data packet encoded with a varying number of symbols and transmitted to the receiver, wherein the varying number of symbols is a function of the metric information for the first transmission. | 06-23-2011 |
20130003802 | NOISE ESTIMATION FILTER - A noise estimation filter for an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexed (OFDM) system can include a filter bank module, a coefficient squaring module, and a summing module. The filter bank module can multiply a unitary vector by an OFDM signal vector to generate scalar products of the OFDM signal vector. The coefficient squaring module can square the scalar products and weight the scalar products to generate a plurality of weighted single estimates. The coefficient squaring module can include a squaring module for squaring the scalar product to generate a plurality of single estimates and a coefficient multiplication module for weighting each of the single estimates with a noise coefficient forming a plurality of weighted single estimates. The summing module can sum the weighted single estimates to generate a noise and interference power estimate. | 01-03-2013 |
20130322583 | CHANNEL ESTIMATION PROCESSING FOR PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT IN LOW SNR REGIME - Disclosed is an improved channel estimation by post-processing of the channel response that is generated by a Golay correlator The processing is done using time-domain operations such as gating and filtering. Gating is performed on the estimated channel response taps in order to reduce the noise level. Pre-filtering the channel response through a filter matched to the transmitted pulse-shape improves the probability of detecting the channel peaks. Post-filtering the processed channel impulse response to eliminate the high frequency effects that are added by the windowing and gating operations. | 12-05-2013 |
20130343444 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PHASE QUANTIZATION FOR PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA - Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of phase quantization. For example, a device may include a phase quantizer to receive a plurality of non-quantized phase values corresponding to a plurality of antenna elements of a phased-array antenna, based on the plurality of non-quantized phase values to select a predefined rotation angle, to determine a plurality of rotated non-quantized phase values by rotating the plurality of non-quantized phase values by the selected rotation angle, and to generate a plurality of quantized phase values by quantizing the plurality of rotated non-quantized phase values. | 12-26-2013 |
20140276031 | MICROWAVE IMAGING RESILIENT TO BACKGROUND AND SKIN CLUTTER - A microwave imaging sensor is disclosed which is resilient to background and skin clutter. Resilience is obtained by cancellation of skin reflections without mechanical displacement of the microwave antenna array or the subject, by utilizing reflections from other antennas and compensating for differences in propagation. The cancellation takes into consideration the expected strength of the reflection at different points in time and for different pairs, in order to minimize the effects on the image, and particularly on image reconstruction of symmetric targets. | 09-18-2014 |