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| 20080198946 | DATA TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING METHOD USING PHASE SHIFT BASED PRECODING AND TRANSCEIVER SUPPORTING THE SAME - A method for performing a precoding based on a generalized phase shift or a precoding based on an extended phase shift in a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) system employing several sub-carriers, and a transceiver for supporting the same are disclosed. A phase-shift-based precoding matrix is generalized by multiplying a diagonal matrix for a phase shift by a unitary matrix for maintaining orthogonality between sub-carriers. In this case, a diagonal matrix part may be extended by multiplying a precoding matrix for removing interference between sub-carriers by a diagonal matrix for a phase shift. By generalization and extension of the phase-shift-based precoding, a transceiver is more simplified, and communication efficiency increases. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080205549 | Method and System for a Wideband Polar Transmitter - Certain aspects of a method and system for a wideband polar transmitter may be disclosed. Aspects of the method may include polar modulating a plurality of signals by generating a plurality of modulated intermediate frequency (IF) signals corresponding to each of a plurality of wireless communication protocols within a transmitter that handles the plurality of wireless communication protocols. The generated plurality of modulated IF signals may be upconverted to a plurality of radio frequency (RF) signals. The plurality of RF signals may be combined and the combined plurality of RF signals may be amplitude modulated. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080212714 | Spatial multiplexing architecture with finite rate feedback - A spatial multiplexing architecture is described for a MIMO communications system wherein the receiver feeds a number of bits of channel state information back to the transmitter. The architecture includes jointly designed ordered detection at the receiver and rate/power allocation at the transmitter. The receiver feeds back a finite number of bits to the transmitter regarding the detection order. The transmitter utilizes this detection order information to assign rates and powers. A Greedy ordering Rate Tailored (GRT-SMA) scheme is described which includes independent coding/decoding on each layer. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080225982 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CODING A COMMUNICATION SIGNAL - An apparatus for coding a communication signal is provided. The apparatus includes an encoder configured to encode the communication signal, to increase the length of the communication signal, and a repetition coder configured to repetitively code part of the encoded communication signal, to utilize at least some of the increased length of the communication signal. The apparatus further includes an interleaver configured to interleave the repetitively coded communication signal. A method is also provided for coding a communication signal. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080225983 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING A MULTI-ANTENNA TRANSMISSION METHOD IN A BROADCASTING SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for transmitting broadcasting signals in a broadcasting system having multi-antenna are provided. The apparatus comprises at least one antenna, a signal generator for generating two or more broadcasting signals to be transmitted, at least two of the two or more broadcasting signals being generated according to different user-required quality characteristics, a multi-antenna modulator for modulating each of the broadcasting signals according to one of a plurality of multi-antenna transmission methods selected for each of the broadcasting signals according to the user-required quality characteristics of the respective broadcasting signals, and a transmitter for transmitting the modulated signals via the at least one antenna. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080240290 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING OUTGOING USEFUL SIGNALS AND AN OUTGOING CLOCK SIGNAL - Method and device for transmitting outgoing useful signals and an outgoing clock signal. Useful signals and a clock signal are transmitted from a transmitter via a first line pair and a second line pair to a receiver. A first useful signal is transmitted in the form of a modulated difference between the electrical potentials of the first line pair. A second useful signal is transmitted in the form of a modulated difference between the electrical potentials of the second line pair. The clock signal is transmitted in the form of a modulated difference between the average value of the potentials of the first line pair and the average value of the potentials of the second line pair. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080247488 | UPLINK MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) AND COOPERATIVE MIMO TRANSMISSIONS - A method is provided for MIMO uplink communications between a base station and a wireless station with more than two antennae. The method includes: (a) negotiating between the base station and the wireless station uplink MIMO/cooperative MIMO capabilities, using a message exchange protocol in which a message exchanged comprises a field for specifying uplink MIMO/cooperative MIMO capabilities; (b) the base station receiving a request from the wireless station for data transmission; (c) the base station sending the wireless station an allocated resource and an uplink MIMO/cooperative MIMO method for uplink transmission; (e) the wireless station mapping data symbols to the allocated resource with proper pilot pattern; and (f) the base station detecting the data symbols from the channel. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080247489 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING DISTORTIONLESS VECTOR PERTURBATION IN MULTIPLE ANTENNA SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for supporting distortionless vector perturbation in a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) system are provided. The apparatus includes a transmitter for supporting distortionless vector perturbation in a MIMO system. The transmitter includes a label inserter for generating a label and for inserting the label into a user information bit, a scrambler for scrambling the user information bit inserted with the label and for generating N independent candidate sequences, a modulator for modulating the N independent candidate sequences according to a modulation scheme and a vector perturbation unit for adding a limited offset vector so that the modulated symbols are mapped to a constellation point in a feasible region. The apparatus and method provide vector perturbation with improved performance and reduced computational complexity. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080253478 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECONFIGURABLE SFBC/STBC IN A DIVERSITY TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - Aspects of a method and system for reconfigurable SFBC/STBC in a diversity transmission system are presented. Exemplary aspects of the system may include one or more circuits that enable generation of a plurality of codeword sequences based on a data sequence. In a diversity transmission system, the plurality of codeword sequences may be concurrently transmitted via at least a portion of a plurality of transmitting antennas. The concurrently transmitted codeword sequences may enable a diversity receiver to generate the data sequence. In a single input single output transmission system, one or more circuits may enable transmission of one of the plurality of codeword sequences via one of the plurality of transmitting antennas. The transmitted codeword sequence may enable a receiver to generate the data sequence. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080267317 | PILOT STRUCTURE WITH MULTIPLEXED UNICAST AND SFN TRANSMISSIONS - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate multiplexing unicast reference symbols and multicast transmissions in the same transmission time interval. In particular, mechanisms are provided that enable multiplexing unicast reference symbols to single frequency network transmissions that utilize a longer cyclic prefix duration. Unicast reference symbols are sent in a first symbol of a slot containing both unicast and single frequency network transmissions. The frequency utilized for the unicast reference symbols is staggered between the first symbol and a subsequent symbol in a sub-frame. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080267318 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A SIGNAL IN MULTI-ANTENNA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system considers either reliability for each antenna or a time/frequency location, and transmits a signal at an unequal ratio for each antenna according to the consideration result. The method for use in the MIMO system including multiple antennas includes processing a signal according to an unequal ratio transmission scheme employing the multiple antennas at an unequal ratio, and transmitting the processed signal via the multiple antennas. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080292019 | HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODES - The present invention is related to a circuit for encoding at least two input symbols by means of a space-time block code, comprising
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| 20080298502 | PILOT STRUCTURES FOR ACK AND CQI IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Techniques for transmitting data and pilot for control information are described. In one aspect, a user equipment (UE) may spread a reference signal sequence with a first orthogonal sequence to obtain multiple pilot sequences. The UE may then send the multiple pilot sequences on multiple subcarriers in multiple symbol periods, one pilot sequence in each symbol period. The UE may modulate the reference signal sequence with control information (e.g., ACK information) to obtain a modulated sequence. The UE may spread the modulated sequence with a second orthogonal sequence to obtain multiple data sequences. The UE may then send the multiple data sequences on the multiple subcarrier in multiple symbol periods for data. In another aspect, the UE may send multiple pilot sequences on multiple subcarriers in multiple symbol periods separated by at least one symbol period, one pilot sequence in each symbol period. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080310550 | REDUNDANCY SYSTEM FOR A TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS - A redundancy system for a co-channel telecommunication system and related methods. Implementations of the redundancy system may include at least a first modulator and a second modulator having a symbol mapper coupled to a parallel bit signal. The symbol mapper may be configured to route each of a plurality of parallel bits received through the parallel bit signal to a plurality of significant bit signals. In a first implementation, a plurality of significant bit signal multiplexers may be used to switch the plurality of parallel bit signals to allow the first and second modulators to operate in either a redundant or operating mode. In a second implementation, a premapped symbol (PMSI) encoder and a PMSI decoder may be used to transmit the plurality of significant bit signals across an interface bus as a real dual-data rate (DDR) signal and an imaginary DDR signal. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090003485 | Mimo Transmitting Apparatus And Mimo Transmitting Method - A MIMO transmitting apparatus wherein a low power consumption and a high performance can be achieved by taking the influence of variation in communication distance into account. In this apparatus, a low power consumption design part ( | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090003486 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MAPPING SYMBOLS TO RESOURCES IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for mapping coded data symbols to resources in a mobile communication system. An S/P converter converts a serial signal including user data or control information into a plurality of parallel signals. A DFT unit performs Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) on the parallel signals output from the S/P converter. A controller controls the DFT unit so that among the signals output from the S/P converter, a control channel is mapped in the maximum available resources to which the control channel can be mapped, among the resources included in a resource block, and data symbols are mapped to the remaining resources, except for the maximum available resources to which the control channel can be mapped. A subcarrier mapper allocates the signals output from the DFT unit to subcarriers. An RF processor converts a signal output from the subcarrier mapper into a radio signal. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090022242 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INCREASED DATA RATE MODES USING MULTIPLE ENCODERS/DECODERS - Systems and methods for providing for increased data rate modes using multiple encoders and decoders, comprising a transmitter comprising multiple encoders, wherein at least one of the encoders has a different error protection strength than at least one other of the encoders. Some embodiments comprise multiple encoders, wherein a symbol receives bits produced by at least two of the multiple encoders. Other embodiments comprise multiple encoders connected to at least one interleaver. Still other embodiments comprise a plurality of decoders, the decoders decoding received bits mapped on symbols on received tones, the bits received from at least one transmitter comprising a plurality of encoders and at least one interleaver. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090034654 | Dynamic multiplexing and de-multiplexing technique with enhanced synchronization - A communication system having a first station and a second station in communication over a wireless communications link. The first station is operative during a communication session to assemble signals from multiple data sources into a common data stream and to transmit the data stream as frame-based communication signals to the second station. The first station comprises a dynamically configurable multiplexer that is operative during a communication session (1) to generate the common data stream by multiplexing the signals in accordance with a plurality of control parameters and assemble said signals according to frames, (2) to dynamically modify the plurality of control parameters in accordance with changes in wireless link conditions and (3) to generate control signals identifying modifications to the control parameters. The first station is operative to transmit to said second station the signals assembled according to frames and the control signals | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090041155 | Stream Distribution System - Provided is a stream distribution system, including: a content server device for performing content distribution in a network; a reception terminal device capable of reproducing a content having a specific format; a plurality of transcoder devices provided in the network, for applying format conversion to a content distributed in the network; and a transcoder management device for searching, in response to a search request sent from the reception terminal device, information on the plurality of transcoder devices, and sending to the reception terminal device, as a search result, a transmission path which runs from the content server device to the reception terminal device via at least one of the plurality of transcoder devices, through which format conversion to a desired content can be performed. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090046807 | Method and system for beamforming communication in wireless communication systems - A method and system for beamforming communication in a wireless communication system that includes a wireless initiator and a wireless responder is provided. A channel matrix is estimated at the responder. The singular value decomposition of the channel matrix yields the right singular matrix, which is further deconstructed into certain components. The right singular matrix components are quantized in a vector fashion and fed back to the initiator for reconstruction and beamforming communication. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090052577 | PEAK TO AVERAGE POWER RATIO REDUCTION - The present invention is related to a method for reducing a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) of a signal in a wireless communication system. PAPR is reduced by modulating a data stream into a plurality of symbols, dividing the plurality of symbols into symbol groups, applying a Fourier transform to each of the symbol groups, applying a delay to at least one of the transformed symbol groups, and calculating a peak to average power ratio of the symbol groups. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090052578 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication system includes a transmitting device and a receiving device each including a plurality of antennas. A plurality of streams are subjected to spatial multiplexing and are transmitted in a downlink in which packets are transmitted from the transmitting device to the receiving device. In the transmitting device, each of the plurality of transmission streams is divided into a plurality of bit-series groups having decoding characteristics to which priority levels are assigned, the bit-series groups are subjected to encoding processes and modulating processes in accordance with the priority levels and further subjected to weighting and synthesizing, and each of the plurality of transmission streams in which a plurality of bit series items are synthesized with one another is spatially multiplexed and transmitted. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090060088 | Detecting the number of transmit antennas in a base station - Data is scrambled at a transmitter according to one of a number of predetermined scrambling sequences which are associated with a particular one of a number of predetermined transmit antenna diversity schemes (i.e., a specific number of transmit antenna ports). Received data is decoded using one or more of the known transmit antenna diversity schemes and the scrambled data is descrambled according to a corresponding descrambling sequence (related to the scrambling sequence). Based on the descrambled data, the receiver determines which transmit antenna, diversity scheme (i.e., the number of antenna ports) is used by the transmitter. In one specific embodiment, CRC parity data is scrambled in the transmitter and the receiver descrambles the recovered CRC parity data according to a descrambling sequence, computes CRC parity data from the received data, and compares the descrambled CRC parity data to the newly computed CRC parity data. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090080566 | SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Althrough orthonormal space-time coding matrices provide for optimal communication system performance in that associated correlation matrices include no non-zero off-diagonal elements, unity code rate orthonormal coding matrices are difficult to identify for arbitrary communication network equipment. According to embodiments of the present invention, non-orthonormal space-time coding matrices, for which associated correlation matrices include non-zero off-diagonal elements, are used to encode data symbols. The non-orthonormal space-time coding matrices are more easily determined, and undesirable effects of the non-zero off-diagonal components are reduced by selecting a coding matrix from among a number of such matrices. For example, a particular space-time coding matrix may be selected from a number of generated space-time coding matrices based on a number of non-zero off-diagonal elements or a power of a trace of the associated correlation matrices. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090080567 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION USING A PLURALITY OF ANTENNAS - A wireless communication apparatus includes a plurality of antennas, transmits a plurality of known symbol sequences each including a plurality of known symbols by using the antennas, each of the known symbols having subcarrier arrangement on which plural known information of the each of the known symbols are carried on, and inversion/non-inversion of a phase of known information on one of two adjacent subcarriers of the subcarrier arrangement being controlled in accordance with the number of the known symbols and time position of the each of the known symbols, and transmits data symbols by using the antennas after the known symbol sequences are transmitted. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090110114 | Open-Loop MIMO Scheme and Signaling Support for Wireless Networks - Transmission with multiple antennas in a wireless network is performed by selecting between adaptive precoding and fixed precoding based on a selection criterion. Transmission using spatial multiplexing with adaptive precoding is performed if the selection criterion is fulfilled. Transmission using spatial multiplexing with fixed preceding is performed if the selection criterion is unfulfilled. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090129501 | Optimal signaling and selection verification for transmit antenna selection with erroneous feedback - A method is provided for receiving data at a receiver via a communication channel from a transmitter having at least two transmitter antennas, the method including: receiving (S | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090129502 | WIRELESS FEEDBACK SYSTEM AND METHOD - A codebook C is provided in a MIMO transmitter as well as a MIMO receiver. The codebook C will include M codewords c | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090161794 | CHANNEL ADAPTIVE VIDEO TRANSMISSION SYSTEM FOR USE WITH LAYERED VIDEO CODING AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH - A video transmission system includes a transceiver module that transmits a video signal to a remote device over at least one RF communications channel wherein the video signal is transmitted as at least one separate video layer stream chosen from, an independent video layer stream and at least one dependent video layer streams that require the independent video layer for decoding. A control module determines at least one channel characteristic of the at least one RF channel and chooses the at least one separate video layer stream based on the at least one channel characteristic of the at least one RF channel. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090190693 | Multichannel signal encoding method, its decoding method, devices for these, program, and its recording medium - An object of the present invention is to efficiently perform weighted difference coding of two or more signals. Determination is made as to which of independent coding and weighted difference coding is to be used for each channel so that the total energy of the channel signals and weighted difference signals is minimized. A weighted difference signal is generated on the basis of the determination and a reference signal (parent) and a weight is generated as auxiliary codes, the difference signal is treated as an input channel signal, and the process of coding determination and difference signal and auxiliary code generation is repeated. The difference signal generated at the last iteration of the process and a signal to be coded by independent coding are compressive coded and the auxiliary codes generated at the iterations of the process are coded and outputted. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090202020 | Distributed Antenna Diversity Transmission Method - A Distributed Antenna System employs a downlink transmission method that requires limited channel information feedback and less coherency between signals than is required for information broadcast. Distributed antennas are treated as diversity antennas with a given power allocation. Each antenna can transmit to multiple UEs by transmitting a weighed sum of their signals, and multiple antennas can transmit to one UE by transmitting weighed space-time (or space-frequency) coded signals. The power allocation weights are determined as an optimum power allocation policy with per-antenna power constraints. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090232254 | Detector Using Limited Symbol Candidate Generation for MIMO Communication Systems - A circuit detects symbols transmitted from multiple transmitting antennas to multiple receiving antennas. A distance block for an initial transmitting antenna in an ordering of the transmitting antennas determines a distance value for each symbol in a constellation. A selector block selects a limited number of candidates for the initial transmitting antenna from the symbols having smaller distance values. For each first and successive second transmitting antenna in the ordering, a distance-selector block selects a candidate for the second transmitting antenna for each candidate for the first transmitting antenna. The candidate for the second transmitting antenna is a pairing having a smaller distance value among the pairings of the candidate for the first transmitting antenna and the symbols. An identifier block selects a last candidate having a smaller distance value among the candidates for a last transmitting antenna in the ordering. The last candidate includes the detected symbols. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090252256 | FAST ACQUISITION IN MEDIAFLO SYSTEMS - A technique of acquisition in a MediaFLO™ (Forward Link Only) mobile multimedia multicast system, wherein the method comprises receiving a superframe comprising a first digital symbol in a receiver operating in a first state of operation; assuming the first received digital symbol to be a Time Division Multiplexed (TDM) pilot symbol; calculating a first sparseness index of the first symbol; storing the first sparseness index; operating the receiver in a second state of operation; receiving a second digital symbol; calculating a second sparseness index for the second digital symbol; the receiver remaining in the second state of operation when the second sparseness index is greater than the first sparseness index, wherein the second digital symbol is assumed to be the TDM pilot symbol; and verifying that the last assumed TDM pilot symbol is the correct TDM pilot of the superframe. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090252257 | MIMO TRANSMITTER AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AN OFDM SYMBOL IN ACCORDANCE WITH AN IEEE 802.11 COMMUNICATION STANDARD OVER A PLURALITY OF SPATIAL CHANNELS - A multiple-input-multiple output (MIMO) transmitter for transmitting an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbol over a plurality of spatial channels using a plurality of antennas is described. The transmitter includes encoding circuitry to encode blocks of input bits in accordance with a variable encoding rate to generate blocks of encoded bits and a spatial-frequency parser to parse the blocks of encoded bits into spatial-frequency groups. The transmitter also includes subcarrier modulators to modulate each spatial-frequency group of encoded bits on one of the OFDM subcarriers to generate symbol-modulated subcarriers. Spatial-frequency groups having a greater number of encoded bits are modulated at higher-order modulation levels and spatial-frequency groups having a lesser number of encoded bits are modulated at lower-order modulation orders. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090268846 | MODIFIED PREAMBLE FOR PROGRAMMABLE TRANSMITTER - A programmable transmitter generates a frame preamble to train a receiver with respect to a communication link format that corresponds to a transmission mode wherein the transmission mode may comprise transmitting the communication link over one or more antennas. Generally, the invention includes generating a preamble with an arrangement that depends upon whether a Greenfield (high data rate) or mixed mode transmission is to occur and that depends upon a number of spatial streams that are to be generated. One format for high data rate transmission includes a short training sequence, a long training sequence and a signal field. The mixed mode transmission further includes a legacy prefix. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090285332 | Method of Systematic Construction of Space-Time Constellations, System and Method of Transmitting Space-Time Constellations - Space-time code, and methods for constructing space-time codes are provided. The space-time coder performs a respective linear transformation on each of P sets of K modulated symbols of a modulated symbol stream to produce P sets of T linearly transformed symbols, applies a respective phase rotation to each set of T linearly transformed symbols to produce a respective set of T phase rotated symbols, and performs a threading operation on the sets of T phase rotated symbols to produce P threaded sequences that define M output sequences; the threading operation being such that each threaded sequence is an allocation of output sequences over time of a respective one of the P sets of T phase rotated symbols in which all of the output sequences are used by each threaded sequence; during each of T symbol periods, a respective one of the P threaded sequences includes a symbol from one of the P sets of phase rotated symbols; and at least one symbol from each set of phase rotated symbols appears in each output sequence; where M>=2, 2<=P<=M, and T>=M and M>=K. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090304109 | Retransmission method for HARQ in MIMO systems - In a closed-loop wireless communication system ( | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090304110 | COGNITIVE RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT COMMUNICATION SCHEME - A cognitive radio communication system using a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication technology is provided. A cognitive radio base station includes a plurality of antennas, a group setting unit to set at least one sensing terminal group that includes at least one sensing terminal among a plurality of terminals, and a signal generator to generate a transmission signal to transmit the transmission signal using channels formed between the plurality antennas and the plurality of terminals, so that the at least one sensing terminal is accorded a sensing time. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090316829 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMIT DIVERSITY FOR CHIP-TO-CHIP COMMUNICATIONS - Aspects of a method and system for transmit diversity for chip-to-chip communications may include transmitting a plurality of signals generated in accordance with a transmission diversity protocol via a plurality of transmit antennas integrated in/on a first chip. The plurality of signals may be received at a second chip, the second chip comprising one or more receive antennas. One or more received signals may be processed in accordance with the transmission diversity protocol. Modulation frequencies at the first chip and/or demodulation frequencies at the second chip may be received via a communication device comprising the first chip and/or the second chip. The modulation and the demodulation frequencies may be received on a link operating in a frequency band that is different from one or more receive frequencies used for the receiving of the plurality of signals, and the frequency band of the link may be an ISM band. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090323860 | RECEIVING AND PROCESSING DATA - A description is given of a method comprising method steps of receiving a data stream comprising first data transmitted from a first antenna and second data transmitted from a second antenna, generating a projection operator and applying the projection operator to the data stream such that the first data is separated from the data stream. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100008447 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING A PLURALITY OF DATA SYMBOLS - A method for transmitting a plurality of data symbols using a plurality of transmit antennas and a plurality of transmission resources is described, in which transmission symbols are generated and associated with the transmit antennas and transmission resources in such a way, such that if this association is represented in the form of a matrix, this matrix can be represented as the combination of two matrices comprising as components the data symbols multiplied with at least partially different weighting factors | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100020901 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNAL IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - When a plurality of sectors transmit the same signal in a communication system, the same signal is transmitted after a weight is applied to the same signal. At this time, defective reception of the same signal in a terminal may be reduced by setting a weight pattern differently according to a symbol transmission time and a sector number | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100040172 | HIGH DATA RATE CLOSED LOOP MIMO SCHEME COMBINING TRANSMIT DIVERSITY AND DATA MULTIPLEXING - Closed loop multiple-antenna wireless communications system with antenna weights determined by maximizing a composite channel signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio minimum. Multiplexed symbol streams over subsets of antennas enhance throughout. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100091906 | Spatio-Temporal Processing for Communication - A space-time signal processing system with advantageously reduced complexity. The system may take advantage of multiple transmitter antenna elements and/or multiple receiver antenna elements, or multiple polarizations of a single transmitter antenna element and/or single receiver antenna element. The system is not restricted to wireless contexts and may exploit any channel having multiple inputs or multiple outputs and certain other characteristics. Multi-path effects in a transmission medium cause a multiplicative increase in capacity. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100104044 | RADIO TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND RADIO RECEPTION DEVICE - Provided is a radio transmission device ( | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100111226 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CONTROL INFORMATION IN MULTIPLE ANTENNA SYSTEM - A method of transmitting control information includes dividing frequency bandwidth into ranges to which the same PMI (precoding matrix index) is applied, obtaining multiple antenna information by the range to which the same PMI is applied and transmitting the multiple antenna information. Since multiple antenna information is transmitted by the unit of a range to which the same PMI is applied, radio resources allocated for transmitting the multiple antenna information may be reduced, thereby enhancing data transmission efficiency. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100208843 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING OR RECEIVING A CLOCK SIGNAL AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM COMPRISING SUCH DEVICE - A method and a device are provided for transmitting or receiving a clock signal. The method includes the step of transmitting or receiving at least two wave bands via a digital subscriber line, wherein a clock signal is conveyed via one of the at least two wave bands. The clock signal may be used for mobile clock synchronization. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100220813 | PROTOCOL OPERATION AND MESSAGE DESIGN FOR SDMA DATA TRANSMISSION TO A PLURALITY OF STATIONS - An apparatus including a processing system configured to construct a coding matrix from channel state information and encode a plurality of spatial streams with the coding matrix for transmission to one or more nodes. A method for performing the process is also disclosed herein. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100246717 | INTERLEAVING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The method and apparatus in accordance with the present invention receives bits, writes the bits row-by-row in a matrix, reads the bits column-by-column from the matrix, groups and rotates the bits read column-by-column from the matrix so as to evenly separate the bits in position, frequency, space over one symbol period. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100254489 | CODE ENHANCED STAGGERCASTING - A method and architecture for processing signal communications between an encoder and decoder operating according to the ATSC standard adapted for mobile handheld transmission is disclosed. The method and apparatus comprises transmitting a packet and a redundant packet according to spatial, time and frequency diversity to enhance the redundancy error processing. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100322349 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA USING CYCLIC DELAY DIVERSITY - A method of transmitting data using cyclic delay in a multi-antenna system using a plurality of subcarriers is disclosed. Data is transmitted through a phase shift based precoding scheme enhanced from a related art phase shift diversity and a related art precoding scheme. A generalized cyclic delay diversity scheme is selectively applied to a phase shift based precoding scheme or a related art precoding scheme executed on a frequency domain is transferred to a time domain to be applied as a generalized cyclic delay diversity scheme. Accordingly, complexity of a receiver is reduced and communication efficiency can be enhanced. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100322350 | TRANSMIT SPATIAL DIVERSITY FOR CELLULAR SINGLE FREQUENCY NETWORKS - Multiple-In Multiple-Out (MIMO) techniques are used to increase spectral efficiency of a cellular single frequency network. In some embodiments with single transmit antenna per cell, multiple data streams are transmitted from multiple cells, one data stream per set of transmit antennae. The mapping of streams to antenna sets is permuted in time. In this way, user equipment devices (UEs) at cell edges benefit from MIMO, and UEs near cell centers benefit from high carrier-to-interference (C/I) ratio of the signal. In some embodiments, each stream is concurrently transmitted on base layer of a hierarchically modulated signal from one set, and on enhancement layer of a hierarchically modulated signal from another set. The mapping of sets to streams is permuted in time. The UEs at cell edges benefit from MIMO, and the UEs near cell centers benefit from the high C/I to decode both streams from the base and enhancement layers. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110019771 | Spatio-Temporal Processing for Communication - A space-time signal processing system with advantageously reduced complexity. The system may take advantage of multiple transmitter antenna elements and/or multiple receiver antenna elements, or multiple polarizations of a single transmitter antenna element and/or single receiver antenna element. The system is not restricted to wireless contexts and may exploit any channel having multiple inputs or multiple outputs and certain other characteristics. Multi-path effects in a transmission medium cause a multiplicative increase in capacity. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110051845 | FREQUENCY DIVERSITY AND PHASE ROTATION - An integrated circuit includes logic configured to encode one or more first data symbols in one or more first sub-carriers as one or more second data symbols in one or more second sub-carriers of a smart-utility-network communication. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110080976 | HIGH DATA RATE CLOSED LOOP MIMO SCHEME COMBINING TRANSMIT DIVERSITY AND DATA MULTIPLEXING - Closed loop multiple-antenna wireless communications system with antenna weights determined by maximizing a composite channel signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio minimum. Multiplexed symbol streams over subsets of antennas enhance throughout. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110085620 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATING INFORMATION USING NON-COHERENT AND COHERENT MODULATION - Non-coherent modulation is used to communicate coding information via pilot signals using a first subset of resources, and coherent modulation is used to generate data signals. This allows for a stronger global code while keeping individual signaling complexity low. First and second communications devices communicate information using a set of communications resources. By performing non-coherent demodulation on pilot signals received on a first subset of said set of communications resources coding information is recovered. First and second channel estimates are generated from the pilot signals received on the first subset of said communications resources. Coherent demodulation is performed on data signals received on a second subset of said set of communications resources using said first and second channel estimates and said coding information to recover information communicated by said first communications device and to recover separate information communicated by said second communications device. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110103513 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MULTI-ANTENNA TRANSMITTING FOR TERRESTRIAL DTV BROADCASTING SIGNAL AND ADDITIONAL DATA - Provided is a transmission apparatus and method for a terrestrial digital TV (DTV) broadcast and additional data using a multi-antenna. To transmit additional data inserted in a base band of a terrestrial DTV broadcast signal using a plurality of transmission antennas, the additional data signal may be temporal and spatial encoded or may be temporal and spatial multiplexed, and may be combined with a base band DTV broadcast signal before modulation and thus, a transmission efficiency of the additional data may increase without affecting a performance of an existing terrestrial DTV broadcast receiver. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110116575 | TRANSMIT DIVERSITY METHOD APPLIED TO A TRANSMITTING SYSTEM AND TRANSMITTING SYSTEM HAVING MULTI-TRANSMISSION PATHS THEREOF - A transmit diversity method applied to a transmitting system includes the steps of: receiving a serial stream, and transforming the serial stream into a plurality of parallel streams, wherein each parallel stream is carried by a corresponding sub-carrier; and in light of each sub-carrier, selecting a single transmission path from at least two transmission paths of the transmitting system so as to transmit the parallel stream carried by the sub-carrier. The transmit diversity method further includes the step of: dividing the plurality of parallel streams carried by the sub-carries into M groups, wherein the parallel streams belonging to the same group are transmitted via selecting the same transmission path. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110129033 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING RANK INDICATION INFORMATION - The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for transmitting rank indication information, in which the method comprises: when rank indication information and a sounding reference signal are transmitted in a same sub-frame, loading the sounding reference signal to a last symbol of a sub-frame, and transmitting the rank indication information and the sounding reference signal. The present invention prevents destruction of orthogonality of codes between PUCCH channels when the rank indication information and the sounding reference signal are transmitted in the same sub-frame, thus the overall performance of the system can be ensured. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110158350 | RECEIVING APPARATUS AND TRANSMITTING APPARATUS - A partial bit demodulation section that demodulates partial bits among a plurality of bits that form 1 symbol of each modulated signal using a detection method different from likelihood detection, signal point reduction sections that reduce the number of candidate signal points using demodulated partial bits, and a likelihood detection section that obtains received digital signals by performing likelihood detection based on the Euclidian distances between the reduced candidate signal points and a reception point, are provided. By this means, only some bits which are unlikely to be erroneous are found by the partial bit demodulation section, and other bits can be found by the likelihood detection section, enabling bit error rate performances to be effectively improved with a comparatively small computational complexity. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110170634 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - Modulated signal A is transmitted from a first antenna, and modulated signal B is transmitted from a second antenna. As modulated signal B, modulated symbols S | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110170635 | TRANSMITTER DIVERSITY TECHNIQUE FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - A simple block coding arrangement is created with symbols transmitted over a plurality of transmit channels, in connection with coding that comprises only simple arithmetic operations, such as negation and conjugation. The diversity created by the transmitter utilizes space diversity and either time or frequency diversity. Space diversity is effected by redundantly transmitting over a plurality of antennas, time diversity is effected by redundantly transmitting at different times, and frequency diversity is effected by redundantly transmitting at different frequencies: Illustratively, using two transmit antennas and a single receive antenna, one of the disclosed embodiments provides the same diversity gain as the maximal-ratio receiver combining (MRRC) scheme with one transmit antenna and two receive antennas. The principles of this invention are applicable to arrangements with more than two antennas, and an illustrative embodiment is disclosed using the same space block code with two transmit and two receive antennas. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110176635 | Multiple Antenna Signal Transmission - Embodiments for at least one method and apparatus of transmitting a transmission signal through a plurality of antennas are disclosed. One method includes generating at least one dynamically adjustable phase shifted signal from the transmission signal. The transmission signal and the at least one dynamically adjustable phase shifted signal are separately amplified. The amplified transmission signal and the amplified at least one dynamically adjustable phase shifted signal are combined within a multiport network. An output signal for each of the plurality of antennas is generated by the multiport network. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110200143 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL SEQUENCE USING PLURAL ANTENNAS - Disclosed is a method for transmitting a sounding reference signal from a mobile terminal that includes plural antennas. Different plural sounding reference signal sequences that have mutual orthogonality are mapped to each antenna, and then transmitted. Or, the same sounding reference signal sequence is mapped to the plural antennas after precoding or cyclic delay diversity processing, and then transmitted. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110211657 | MIMO Communication System and Control Method Thereof - Disclosed are a MIMO communication system and a method of controlling the same. The MIMO communication system includes an MCS (modulation and coding scheme) level selector for selecting an MCS level representing combination of data modulation and coding schemes according to a channel status, a modulation and coding section for processing transmit data according to modulation and coding schemes corresponding to the selected MCS level, a D-STTD (double-space time transmit diversity) encoder for coding the transmit data, which has been processed through the modulation and coding section, through a D-STTD scheme and transmitting the transmit data through M transmit antennas, and a receiver for receiving data, which have been coded through the D-STTD scheme, through N receive antennas, detecting the received data through an OSIC-MMSE (ordered successive interference cancellation-minimum mean-square error) scheme, and decoding the received data through the modulation and coding schemes employed in the modulation and coding section. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110235752 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A radio communication apparatus for transmitting and receiving modulation signals of a plurality of channels in the same frequency band via a plurality of antennas. A communication method is based on information on electric wave propagation environment corresponding to each antenna of the communication partner and transmission is performed by selecting a transmission method for transmitting modulation signals of channels in the same frequency band from a plurality of antennas or a transmission method for transmitting a modulation signal of one channel from one antenna. Thus, it is possible to multiplex a plurality of modulation signals so as to be transmitted and to demultiplex and demodulate the transmitted multiplexed modulation signals at a reception unit, thereby improving the data transmission rate. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110255637 | OFDM TRANSMISSION SIGNAL GENERATION APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND OFDM RECEPTION DATA GENERATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A MIMO-OFDM transmission and reception apparatus is provided which allows high accuracy estimation of frequency offset, high accuracy estimation of a transmission path fluctuation and high accuracy synchronization/signal detection. A mapping section generates a plurality of OFDM signals. In these OFDM signals, some pilot carriers are assigned to the same carrier position and orthogonal sequences are assigned to the same time slot in the same carrier position. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110299629 | METHODS AND APPARATUS EMPLOYING FEC CODES WITH PERMANENT INACTIVATION OF SYMBOLS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING PROCESSES - Encoding of a plurality of encoded symbols is provided wherein an encoded symbol is generated from a combination of a first symbol generated from a first set of intermediate symbols and a second symbol generated from a second set of intermediate symbols, each set having at least one different coding parameter, wherein the intermediate symbols are generated based on the set of source symbols. A method of decoding data is also provided, wherein a set of intermediate symbols is decoded from a set of received encoded symbols, the intermediate symbols organized into a first and second sets of symbols for decoding, wherein intermediate symbols in the second set are permanently inactivated for the purpose of scheduling the decoding process to recover the intermediate symbols from the encoded symbols, wherein at least some of the source symbols are recovered from the decoded set of intermediate symbols. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20120014477 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN MULTI-ANTENNA SYSTEM - A method for transmitting a reference signal in a multi-antenna system is provided. The method includes: selecting at least one orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol in a subframe containing a plurality of OFDM symbols; allocating a channel quality indication reference signal (CQI RS) capable of measuring a channel state for each of a plurality of antennas to the selected at least one OFDM symbol; and transmitting the CQI RS, wherein the CQI RS is allocated to an OFDM symbol which does not overlap with an OFDM symbol to which a common reference signal to be transmitted to all user equipments in a cell or a dedicated reference signal to be transmitted to a specific user equipment in the cell is allocated. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120076238 | FREQUENCY SELECTIVE TRANSMIT SIGNAL WEIGHTING FOR MULTIPLE ANTENNA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method for communication includes performing by one or more processors and/or circuits in a communication device functions including determining transmit power weights, which are to be utilized for communicating one or more wireless signals via a wireless channel, as a function of frequency of a wireless signal communicated via the wireless channel. The determining may be based on a transmission mode of the wireless signal and a state of the wireless communication channel. Transmit antenna spatial weights may be determined for communicating the one or more wireless signals via a plurality of antennas. The one or more wireless signals may be weighted with the transmit power weights and/or one of the transmit antenna spatial weights. The weighted one or more wireless signals may be transmitted via one of a plurality of antennas in accordance with the transmission mode. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120082263 | Orthogonal Resource Selection Transmit Diversity - Methods are disclosed for transmitting a plurality of information bits using resource selection on multiple antennas. In one or more embodiments, the methods include: selecting a first and a second orthogonal resource from an allocation of more than two orthogonal resources according to the state of the plurality of information bits; transmitting a first symbol in a first symbol instant on a first antenna using the first orthogonal resource; and transmitting a second symbol in the first symbol instant on a second antenna using the second orthogonal resource. In some embodiments, the first and second orthogonal resources are different and the first symbol is either a reference symbol or a modulation symbol. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120082264 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SIGNALS OF MULTIPLE ACTIVE WIRELESS TRANSMITTERS - Systems and methods for combining signals from multiple active wireless transmitters are discussed herein. An exemplary system comprises a radio enclosure, a first transmitting RFU, a second transmitting RFU, and a combiner. The first transmitting RFU may be configured to receive a signal, upconvert the signal, compare a phase of the upconverted signal to a predetermined phase value, and adjust the phase of the signal based on the comparison to provide a first phase-adjusted upconverted signal. The second transmitting RFU may be configured to receive the signal, upconvert the signal, compare a phase of the upconverted signal to the predetermined phase value, and adjust the phase of the signal based on the comparison to provide a second phase-adjusted upconverted signal. The coupler may be configured to combine the first and second phase-adjusted upconverted signals to create an output signal and provide the output signal to an antenna for transmission. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120087442 | DESIGN ASPECTS TO SUPPORT LTE-A DOWNLINK HI-ORDER MIMO - A method of operation of a MIMO transmitter, in a cellular network supporting both legacy standard-compliant mobile terminals and next generation standard-compliant mobile terminals, the method comprising defining a matrix of resource blocks within an information channel of the cellular network, wherein each resource block corresponds to a region of subcarriers of a transmission timeslot at a given frequency subband; assigning a first set of reference signals (RSs) for the legacy standard-compliant mobile terminals to resource blocks at specific locations within the matrix to be transmitted by the MIMO transmitter, the specific locations being defined by, the legacy standard; and assigning a second set of RSs for the next-generation standard-compliant mobile terminals to other resource blocks within the matrix to be transmitted by the MIMO transmitter. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120093261 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF TRANSMITTING DOWNLINK CONTROL SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed herein are a method and an apparatus for transmitting a downlink control signal in a wireless communication system. The apparatus for transmitting a downlink control signal includes: a preamble symbol generator generating preamble orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols based on a first pilot pattern among pilot patterns for each of the plurality of transmit antennas; a midamble symbol generator generating midamble OFDM symbols based a second pilot pattern excluding the first pilot pattern from the pilot patterns for each of the plurality of transmit antennas; an IFFT unit performing inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) for each transmit antenna on the preamble OFDM symbol and the midamble OFDM symbol; and a plurality of transmit antennas transmitting the preamble OFDM symbols and the midamble OFDM symbols. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120140853 | DIFFERENTIAL SIGNAL OUTPUT DEVICE AND PORTABLE DEVICE - A differential signal output device includes a first transmitting terminal and a second transmitting terminal that superimpose a differential signal and a common mode signal and output the superimposed signals. The differential signal output device includes a differential signal generating circuit that generates the differential signal in response to a data signal and outputs the differential signal to the first transmitting terminal and the second transmitting terminal. The differential signal output device includes a common mode signal generating circuit that generates the common mode signal in response to a clock signal, outputs the common mode signal to the first transmitting terminal and the second transmitting terminal, and controls a slew rate of the common mode signal in response to a control signal. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120170680 | Receiver Synchronization in Radio Communication Systems Employing Transmit Diversity - According to one or more embodiments, multiple transmitters may simultaneously transmit orthogonal acquisition sequences with certain frequencies zeroed out, such that receivers receiving a signal (waveform) may separate the signal into the orthogonal sequences based on which frequencies are zeroed out to perform acquisition processes. For example, each transmitter may simultaneously transmit an orthogonal acquisition sequence with certain tones zeroed out depending upon which transmitter transmits the symbol. A particular receiver may then receive a signal, and filter it to produce a plurality of filtered signals that distinguish orthogonal acquisition sequence symbols based on which tones are zeroed out within the symbols. The particular receiver may synchronize with a particular transmitter in response to detecting an orthogonal acquisition sequence within one of the filtered signals and correlating the detected sequence to the particular transmitter based on from which of the plurality of filtered signals the orthogonal acquisition sequence is detected. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120189082 | BASE STATION, MULTI-ANTENNA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREOF - A User equipment selecting first user equipment in a mode of precoding transmission and second user equipment in a mode of diversity transmission; a parameter determining a modulation mode, the number of transmission layers and a precoding matrix according to channel quality information, precoding matrix information and number of transmission layers sent from the first user equipment and channel quality information and number of transmission layers sent from the second user equipment; according to the modulation mode and the number of transmission layers, generating first and second symbol sequence from first and second source data; hierarchically modulating the first and the second symbol sequence to generate a mixed symbol sequence; layer mapping and precoding for the mixed symbol sequence to generate transmission signals; and transmitting the precoding matrix and the number of transmission layers to the second user equipment; sending the transmission signals to the first and second user equipments. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120219092 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, a communication device, which performs communication using a first communication method and a second communication method, converts information to be transmitted into information for forming a pulse that is formed depending on the presence and absence of transmission of a radio wave, according to the first communication method. The communication device decides a suppression time, during which communication with a communication device other than a communication partner is suppressed, on the basis of a result of the conversion. The communication device generates an output signal including the transmission suppression signal, in which the suppression time is set for each first element in the pulse, according to the second communication method, the first element transmitting a radio wave. The communication device transmits a radio wave according to the output signal to the communication partner at timing to transmit a radio wave in the pulse. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120269295 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CONTROL INFORMATION IN MULTIPLE ANTENNA SYSTEM - A method of transmitting control information includes dividing frequency bandwidth into ranges to which the same PMI (precoding matrix index) is applied, obtaining multiple antenna information by the range to which the same PMI is applied and transmitting the multiple antenna information. Since multiple antenna information is transmitted by the unit of a range to which the same PMI is applied, radio resources allocated for transmitting the multiple antenna information may be reduced, thereby enhancing data transmission efficiency. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120314808 | PRECODING WEIGHT GENERATION METHOD, MOBILE STATION APPARATUS AND BASE STATION APPARATUS - To increase a data rate (spectral efficiency) of the entire system also in the case of dynamically switching between SU-MIMO transmission and MU-MIMO transmission, it is a feature that a mobile station apparatus ( | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120314809 | TRANSMISSION METHOD, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, AND RECEPTION APPARATUS - Of any one of transmission method X of transmitting modulated signal A and modulated signal B including the same data from a plurality of antennas and transmission method Y of transmitting modulated signal A and modulated signal B having different data from the plurality of antennas, base station apparatus | 12-13-2012 |
| 20130003893 | Detecting the Number of Transmit Antennas in a Base Station - Data is scrambled at a transmitter according to one of a number of predetermined scrambling sequences which are associated with a particular one of a number of predetermined transmit antenna diversity schemes (i.e., a specific number of transmit antenna ports). Received data is decoded using one or more of the known transmit antenna diversity schemes and the scrambled data is descrambled according to a corresponding descrambling sequence (related to the scrambling sequence). Based on the descrambled data, the receiver determines which transmit antenna diversity scheme (i.e., the number of antenna ports) is used by the transmitter. In one specific embodiment, CRC parity data is scrambled in the transmitter and the receiver descrambles the recovered CRC parity data according to a descrambling sequence, computes CRC parity data from the received data, and compares the descrambled CRC parity data to the newly computed CRC parity data. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130022152 | ROBUST ANTENNA ARRAY - A wireless communication system that includes a robust transmitter array. The robust transmitter array includes an antenna array system with at least one column, at least one antenna element, and at least one polarization, a plurality of transmitter devices to transmit analog voice/data signals through the antenna array system, and a signal processor. The signal processor modifies two or more input signals in the event of a transmitter device failure such that substantially similar amounts of each of the two or more input signals are output from the transmitter system to the antenna array system, and wherein substantially less transmitted signal power is lost than in the case wherein the signal processor does not modify the two or more input signals in the event of a transmitter failure. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130188752 | ANALOG INPUT AND OUTPUT MODULE - Provided is an analog input and output module, the module comprising a first signal processing unit configured to separate analog signal inputted from a plurality of HART transmitters from first HART data, convert the analog signal to digital data, transmit the first HART data to a second signal processing unit, and transmit second HART data received from the second signal processing unit to at least one of the plurality of HART transmitters; and the second signal processing unit configured to control the first signal processing unit and storing conversion result. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130188753 | DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM FOR MIMO SIGNALS - A distributed antenna system includes a multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) base station configured to output at least a first signal and a second signal. At least one master unit communicates with the MIMO base station. At least one remote unit communicates with the master unit. At least one antenna is coupled with the remote unit for receiving signals from the remote unit. A hybrid coupler is coupled between the remote unit and antenna and is configured to receive the first signal Ch | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130308727 | MULTI-LAYER BEAM FORMING METHOD AND USER EQUIPMENT (UE) FOR IMPLEMENTING MULTI-LAYER BEAM FORMING - The disclosure provides a multi-layer beam forming method. The method includes: according to an obtained transmitting weight value of each space channel layer, obtaining a signal-to-noise ratio of a data stream, arriving at a receiving side, of each layer; according the obtained signal-to-noise ratio of the data stream, arriving at the receiving side, of each layer, determining a data stream which is able to be transmitted; performing beam forming for the data stream which is able to be transmitted and transmitting the data stream subjected to the beam forming to the receiving side. The disclosure further provides User Equipment (UE) for implementing multi-layer beam forming. Only a data stream, which can be decoded by a receiving side, of each layer is transmitted, thereby utilizing channel capacity to the most extent while adequately and reasonably utilizing space channel resources. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20140010331 | TRANSMISSION METHOD, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND RECEPTION APPARATUS - A method of generating modulation signals is disclosed including generally three steps. A plurality of modulation signals are generated, each of which is to be transmitted from a different one of a plurality of antennas in an identical frequency band, wherein each modulation signal includes a pilot symbol sequence including a plurality of pilot symbols used for demodulation. Each of the pilot symbol sequences is inserted at the same temporal point in each modulation signal, wherein the pilot symbol sequences are orthogonal to each other with zero mutual correlation among the plurality of modulation signals, each pilot symbol having a non-zero amplitude, the quantity of the plurality of pilot symbols in each sequence being greater than the quantity of the plurality of modulation signals to be transmitted. The plurality of modulation signals each including different transmission data and one of the pilot symbol sequences are output to the antennas. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140029695 | Method and Apparatus for Open Loop Transmission in a Multiple Antenna Wireless Communication System - The invention concerns a method for precoding in an open loop transmission communications system, wherein the method includes precoding data at each of M REs with a precoding matrix, precoding each of DM-RSs with one column of a precoding matrix which is same as that used for precoding M data REs. The method is distinguished by using at least L≧2 different precoding matrices from a set of precoding matrices W to precode the M REs and the E allocated REs such that REs precoded with a first precoding matrix are interleaved with REs precoded with at least one additional, different precoding matrix and the number of used precoding matrices L is adapted to the transmission rank r and number N of available DM-RS. The invention further concerns a radio transmitter and a user equipment. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140029696 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION-REFERENCE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed are an apparatus for Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS) allocation and a method for CSI-RS transmission using the same in a wireless communication system. A CSI-RS for each antenna port is allocated to REs or subcarriers on a basis of a symbol or symbol axis in a subframe or Resource Block (RB), and is allocated in such a manner that a distance between neighboring CSI-RS allocation REs or subcarriers may be 3 REs or subcarriers. Accordingly, in the range of following CSI-RS transmission overhead, CSI-RSs are allocated to a time-frequency resource domain in such a manner so as to have perfect orthogonality or quasi-orthogonality according to cells or cell groups. Then, the CSI-RSs, which have been allocated to the time-frequency resource domain, are transmitted. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140037024 | MIDAMBLE ALLOCATIONS FOR MIMO TRANSMISSIONS - Allocation of multiple training sequences transmitted in a MIMO timeslot from multiple transmit antenna elements is provided. For example, a method of generating signals in a MIMO timeslot, the method comprising: selecting a first training sequence; preparing a first data payload; generating a first signal including the prepared first data payload and the first training sequence; transmitting the first signal in a MIMO timeslot from a first antenna of a network element; selecting a second training sequence, wherein the second training sequence is different from first training sequence; preparing a second data payload; generating a second signal including the prepared second data payload and the second training sequence; and transmitting the second signal in the MIMO timeslot from a second antenna of the network element. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140044218 | PRE-CODING METHOD AND PRE-CODING DEVICE - Disclosed is a precoding method comprising the steps of: generating a first coded block and a second coded block with use of a predetermined error correction block coding scheme; generating a first precoded signal z1 and a second precoded signal z2 by performing a precoding process, which corresponds to a matrix selected from among the N matrices F[i], on a first baseband signal s1 generated from the first coded block and a second baseband signal s2 generated from the second coded block, respectively; the first precoded signal z1 and the second precoded signal z2 satisfying (z1, z2) | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140064409 | DATA AND/OR COMMAND SIGNAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE WITH ANTENNA ARRANGEMENTS - The data and/or command signal transmission device includes a first signal generator connected to a first antenna arrangement, a second signal generator connected to a second antenna arrangement, a third signal generator connected to a third antenna arrangement, and a synchronisation circuit. The synchronisation circuit performs data amplitude modulation by combining the signals transmitted by the antenna arrangements. The signals transmitted by the first and third antenna arrangements are in-phase in a first stable modulation state and 180° out of phase in a second stable modulation state. In a modulation state transition phase, the first and third signals delivered by the first and third generators are at a different frequency from the carrier frequency of the signals delivered by the second generator. The resonance frequency of the first and third antenna arrangements is also adapted in the transition phase. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140072076 | System and Method for Mapping Symbols for MIMO Transmission - Methods and devices are provided for MIMO OFDM transmitter and receivers having odd and/even numbers of transmit antennas. Various methods for pre-coding information bits before space time coding (STC) are described for enabling transmission of information bits over all antennas. Methods of decoding received signals that have been pre-coded and STC coded are also provided by embodiments of the invention. Pilot patterns for downlink and uplink transmission between a base station and one or more wireless terminals for three transmit antenna transmitters are also provided. Variable rate codes are provided that combine various fixed rate codes in a manner that results in codes whose rates are dependent on all the various fixed rate codes that are combined | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140079155 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING MULTIPLE REVERSE LINK DATA STREAMS - A method for wireless communication includes determining a number of uplink data streams to transmit from a mobile device and determining a selection of antennas from a plurality of antennas for transmitting the uplink data streams. The method also includes determining beamforming parameters based at least in part on a beamforming identifier. The method further includes transmitting a first data stream via the selection of antennas in accordance with the beamforming parameters and transmitting a second data stream in response to determining that the number of uplink data streams is at least two. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140079156 | Signal Combiner, Method, Computer Program and Computer Program Product - It is presented a signal combiner for combining transmission signals to foe supplied to four antennas devices, wherein two of the antenna devices are polarised in a first orientation and two of the antenna devices are polarised in a second orientation essentially orthogonal to the first orientation. The signal combiner comprises: four input connections arranged to receive the transmission signals; four output connections arranged to drive a respective one of the four of antenna devices using respective output signals. The signal combiner is arranged to combine transmission signals supplied on each input connection to all of the four output connections using beam forming and phase adjustment, such that, in use, each supplied transmission signal generates a central beam polarised in the first orientation and a side beam polarised in the second orientation, It is also presented a corresponding method, computer program and computer program product. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140105329 | ARRAY SYSTEM FOR SEGMENTING SIGNALS AND GENERATING A COMPLEX WAVEFORM AT A FOCAL POINT USING RECOMBINATION OF SEGMENTED SIGNALS - An apparatus and methods are provided to realize an input waveform using wavelet processing and reconstruction via separated antenna array systems having different beam paths and different frequency components which can include phased array transmitters to recreate the input waveform. One aspect of the invention can include a wavelet function used for the examples shown herein which includes a first and second moments of a statistical function, i.e. the mean and variance used with an inverse wavelet to create rectangular pulses that lend themselves to use in the invention herein. Other embodiments of the invention can use other input waveform separation functions paired with signal separation and recombination at a focus point. A selected function can be matched to its application associated with avoidance of sending the input waveform along a single beam path, a desired a focus point, and separation of an input signal. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140105330 | CODE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION IMPROVEMENTS FOR LOW DENSITY PARITY CHECK CODES FOR WIRELESS ROUTERS USING 802.11n PROTOCOL - Method and apparatus for implementing LDPC codes in an IEEE 802.11 standard system configured to operate in a Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (MIMO) schema. A method in accordance with the present invention comprises defining a base LDPC code, having a length equal to an integer number of data carriers in an ODFM symbol, transmitting the base LDPC code over a plurality of sub-carriers, wherein the base code is transmitted at an expected phase on sub-carriers specified by the IEEE 802.11 standard system, and transmitting the base LDPC code on other sub-carriers than those specified by the IEEE 802.11 standard system, wherein the base LDPC code on the other sub-carriers is transmit offset in phase from the base LDPC code on the specified sub-carriers. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140140438 | Transmit Correlated Array Gain Reduction - Techniques are presented herein to achieve reduced array gain associated with a transmission made from multiple antennas of a wireless communication device. In accordance with one technique, a wireless communication device is provided having a plurality of transmitters each configured to transmit via a corresponding one of a plurality of antennas. Subcarriers of at least one transmit signal to be weighted across the plurality of transmitters are allocated power so that for each subcarrier, only one transmitter is allocated a maximum power. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140153671 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVELY TRANSMITTING DATA USING SPATIAL DIVERSITY - A method, performed in a communication device having multiple transmitters, for selectively transmitting data using spatial diversity, includes determining a type of data to be transmitted, determining whether the type of data meets a data type criteria, which comprises determining whether the data includes priority data, and transmitting the data using spatial diversity when the type of data meets the data type criteria. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140161209 | COFDM broadcasting with single-time retransmission of COFDM symbols - Transmitter apparatus to broadcast coded orthogonal frequency-division multiplexed (COFDM) radio-frequency carriers conveying digital television (DTV) signals encoded using Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) coding concatenated with subsequent low-density parity-check coding (LPDC) transmits the same coded DTV signals twice some time apart. The coded DTV signals are mapped to quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) of the COFDM carriers. Preferably, the circular Fourier transforms of COFDM symbols in the earlier transmissions are rotated one half revolution respective to the circular Fourier transforms of corresponding COFDM symbols in the later transmissions. Receiver apparatus combines the earlier and later transmissions of twice-transmitted COFDM signals as part of iterative procedures for de-mapping QAM and decoding the concatenated BCH-LDPC coding of the DTV signals. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140192927 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING MULTI-ANTENNA TRANSMISSION MODE IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for selecting a multi-antenna transmission mode of an electronic device is provided. The method includes determining, by using a detection signal from a sensor, whether there is a contact with a human body, changing a second transmission mode to a first transmission mode when there is a contact with a human body that affects the electromagnetic field around an antenna, and transmitting the same data stream through at least two antennas according to the first transmission mode. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140192928 | TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, SENDING DEVICE, RECEIVING DEVICE, AND TRANSMISSION METHOD - A transmission system includes a data sending device that sends data at a first speed and a data receiving device that receives, by using a plurality of clocks having different phases, data that has been sent by the sending device at the first speed. The data sending device sends, to the data receiving device, some of the data, which is sent at the first speed, at a second speed that is lower than the first speed. Furthermore, in accordance with determination as to whether the content of the received data sent at the second speed matches a corresponding portion of the data received by using a plurality of clocks, the data receiving device changes the timing at which the data that has been sent at the first speed is received. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140205042 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USE OF QUADRATURE HYBRIDS FOR CLOSED AND OPEN LOOP BEAM FORMING TRANSMIT DIVERSITY - The present implementation is directed to a system and method of mobile transmit diversity and, more particularly, to a device which can operate in any of several modes, including a transmit diversity mode whereby two or more antennae transmit signals to at least one base station with relative phase difference, or in a non-diversity mode whereby one antenna is turned off and the other transmits at full or requisite power. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140233678 | MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) capable system is contemplated. The communication system may include a signal processor configured to separate an input stream into multiple signal paths to facilitate simultaneous transport through a communication medium. The capability to simultaneously transmit multiples signal paths may be beneficial in order to maximize throughput and/or minimize expense. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140241463 | PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - A phased array transmitter is disclosed comprising a vector modulator, a true time delay block coupled to the vector modulator, a local oscillator phase shifter and RF-converter block coupled to the true time delay block, and an antenna. The vector modulator applies vector modulation to a baseband signal and provides an intermediate frequency signal to the true time delay block. The true time delay block applies a true time delay to the intermediate frequency signal and provides a delayed intermediate frequency signal to the local oscillator phase shifter and RF-converter block. The local oscillator phase shifter and RF-converter block multiplies the delayed intermediate frequency signal by a local oscillator signal and applies a phase shift to the delayed intermediate frequency signal to provide a radio frequency signal to the antenna for onwards transmission. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140314183 | Scattered Pilot Pattern And Channel Estimation Method For MIMO-OFDM Systems - A method and apparatus are provided for reducing the number of pilot symbols within a MIMO-OFDM communication system, and for improving channel estimation within such a system. For each transmitting antenna in an OFDM transmitter, pilot symbols are encoded so as to be unique to the transmitting antenna. The encoded pilot symbols are then inserted into an OFDM frame to form a diamond lattice, the diamond lattices for the different transmitting antennae using the same frequencies but being offset from each other by a single symbol in the time domain. At the OFDM receiver, a channel response is estimated for a symbol central to each diamond of the diamond lattice using a two-dimensional interpolation. The estimated channel responses are smoothed in the frequency domain. The channel responses of remaining symbols are then estimated by interpolation in the frequency domain. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140341320 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA STREAMS IN MIMO SYSTEM - A method for transmitting data streams in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system is provided, where each data stream is mapped to multiple layers in an MIMO channel space for transmission, and the method includes: performing inter-layer interleaving for N data streams to obtain N interleaved data streams; mapping the N interleaved data streams respectively to N layers in the MIMO channel space, and transmitting the N interleaved data streams that are mapped to the N layers. By using the method of the present invention, a combined CQI can be used in a better way to improve MIMO transmission performance. Further, an impact of inter-layer interference is canceled by using an interference cancellation technology (for example, an SIC technology) based on the inter-layer interleaving. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140369443 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONVEYING ANTENNA CONFIGURATION INFORMATION VIA MASKING - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for conveying information regarding the antenna configuration and/or the transmission diversity scheme to a recipient, such as a mobile device. In particular, information regarding the antenna configuration and/or the transmission diversity scheme can be conveyed by masking, such as cyclic redundancy check masking, to provide information regarding the antenna configuration and/or the transmission diversity scheme. In this regard, a set of masks can be determined based upon hamming distances between the masks and bit diversities between the masks and where each of the masks within the set is associated with an antenna configuration and a transmission diversity scheme. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140376664 | Method and device for retransmitting data under antenna gain imbalance - The disclosure provides a method and device for retransmitting data under antenna gain imbalance, and the method includes: determining that gains of multiple antennas at a transmission terminal are imbalanced; using a better spatial sub-channel in the multiple antennas to retransmit data when streams transmitted by the multiple antennas adopt a same Modulation and Coding Scheme; and using a better spatial sub-channel in the multiple antennas to retransmit data and/or using a single-stream approach to retransmit data when the streams transmitted by the multiple antennas adopt different Modulation and Coding Schemes. The disclosure selects a corresponding retransmission approach according to the condition of a spatial sub-channel on which streams have an error, thus improving and ensuring success rate for retransmitting a stream. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150010111 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SIGNALS OF MULTIPLE ACTIVE WIRELESS TRANSMITTERS - Systems and methods for combining signals from multiple active wireless transmitters are discussed herein. An exemplary system comprises a radio enclosure, a first transmitting RFU, a second transmitting RFU, and a combiner. The first transmitting RFU may be configured to receive a signal, upconvert the signal, compare a phase of the upconverted signal to a predetermined phase value, and adjust the phase of the signal based on the comparison to provide a first phase-adjusted upconverted signal. The second transmitting RFU may be configured to receive the signal, upconvert the signal, compare a phase of the upconverted signal to the predetermined phase value, and adjust the phase of the signal based on the comparison to provide a second phase-adjusted upconverted signal. The coupler may be configured to combine the first and second phase-adjusted upconverted signals to create an output signal and provide the output signal to an antenna for transmission. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150055734 | MEDICAL APPARATUS AND METHODS INCLUDING AN ARRAY SYSTEM FOR SEGMENTING SIGNALS AND GENERATING A COMPLEX WAVEFORM AT A FOCAL POINT USINGRECOMBINATION OF SEGMENTED SIGNALS - An apparatus and methods are provided to realize an input waveform using wavelet processing and reconstruction via separated antenna array systems having different beam paths and different frequency components which can include phased array transmitters to recreate the input waveform in medical applications. One aspect of the invention can include a wavelet function used for the examples shown herein which includes a first and second moments of a statistical function, i.e. the mean and variance used with an inverse wavelet to create rectangular pulses that lend themselves to use in the invention herein. Other embodiments of the invention can use other input waveform separation functions paired with signal separation and recombination at a focus point. A selected function can be matched to its application associated with avoidance of sending the input waveform along a single beam path, a desired a focus point, and separation of an input signal. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150063493 | PILOT SIGNAL TRANSMITTING METHOD, AND CHANNEL ESTIMATION METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a pilot signal transmitting method, and a channel estimation method, an apparatus, and a system. The method includes: within a transmission time interval (TTI), transmitting a first pilot signal (CPICH | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150304152 | Communication System Using Orbital Angular Momentum - Different data communication architectures deliver a wide variety of content, including audio and video content, to consumers. The architectures may utilize orbital angular momentum to deliver more bandwidth across multiple channels than any single communication channel can carry. In some implementations, the communication architectures distribute data across multiple orbital angular momentum channels in a bonded channel group. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150349864 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SIGNALS BY USING CODEBOOK IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. A method by which a base station transmits a downlink signal in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving first and second precoding matrix indicators (PMIs) from a terminal; determining a first matrix (W | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150365146 | MOBILE STATION AND RECEPTION METHOD - Provided is a radio communication device which can separate propagation paths of antenna ports and improve a channel estimation accuracy even when using virtual antennas. The device includes: a mapping unit which maps a data signal after modulation to a virtual antenna and a virtual antenna; a phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of S0 transmitted from an antenna port in synchronization with a phase inversion unit between the odd-number slot and the even-number slot; the phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of R0 transmitted from the antenna port; a phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of S1 transmitted from an antenna port in synchronization with a phase inversion unit; and the phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of R1 transmitted from an antenna port. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150372724 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING COORDINATED MULTI-POINT MEASUREMENT SET - Method and an apparatus for configuring a coordinated multi-point measurement set. An embodiment of the present invention provides a method at a neighboring base station side ( | 12-24-2015 |
| 20160006584 | DRIVING DATA OF MULTIPLE PROTOCOLS THROUGH A SINGLE SET OF PINS - Embodiments of the invention are generally directed driving data of multiple protocols through a single set of pins. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a transmitter connected to two pads on an IC the transmitter including a differential driver to transmit a differential signal, wherein the differential driver has a first branch and a second branch, each branch of the differential driver including a protection device connected to one of the pads; and a common mode driver to transmit a common mode signal, the common mode driver having a first branch and a second branch, each of the branches of the common mode driver including a protection device connected to one of the pads. The first and second switch devices are not turned on simultaneously, based on data to be transmitted, one of the switch devices being turned on and the other being turned off. The third and fourth switch devices are both turned on when the common mode signal is one of a logic HIGH or logic LOW and both turned off when the common mode signal is the other of a logic HIGH or logic LOW. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160065293 | DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM FOR MIMO SIGNALS - A distributed antenna system includes a multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) base station configured to output at least a first signal and a second signal. At least one master unit communicates with the MIMO base station. At least one remote unit communicates with the master unit. At least one antenna is coupled with the remote unit for receiving signals from the remote unit. A coupler element is configured for introducing a phase shift in a portion of at least the first MIMO signal and for combining the phase shifted first MIMO signal portion with a portion of the second MIMO signal and presenting the combined first and second MIMO signal portions at an output port of the coupler element. An antenna is configured for receiving the combined MIMO signal portions for transmission. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20190149209 | BEAMFORMING CALIBRATION | 05-16-2019 |
