Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
375138000 | Time hopping | 31 |
20080247442 | Method, Apparatus, and System for Modulating and Demodulating Signals Compatible with Multiple Receiver Types and Designed for Improved Receiver Performance - A method, apparatus, and system for modulating and demodulating signals compatible with multiple receiver types and designed for improved receiver performance. The invention includes the use of hybrid impulse radio (H-IR) ultra-wideband (UWB) with forward error correction coding, recursive modulation and other techniques designed to enable one transmitter to transmit a waveform capable of being demodulated concurrently by a coherent receiver, a differentially coherent receiver, and/or a non-coherent receiver. | 10-09-2008 |
20090028221 | Constructing an Energy Matrix of a Radio Signal - A method analyzes a radio signal received via a wireless channel. The radio signal includes multiple frames representing a transmitted symbol. Energy of ach frame is sampled during multiple of non-overlapping time windows. The sampled energies are stored in an energy matrix indexed by the number of frames and the number of time windows in each frame to analyze the radio signal. | 01-29-2009 |
20090103592 | MYRIAD FILTER DETECTOR FOR MULTIUSER COMMUNICATION - An adaptive receiver for multiple access communication, illustratively UWB multiple access communication, is provided. One embodiment of a detector is derived based on the finding that an symmetric alpha-stable model is more suitable for modeling the MAI in multiuser UWB systems than existing models. A myriad filter detector works better than all the known receiver structures proposed for statistical MAI cancellation. An intuitive expression for the tuning parameter K is provided which worked well in the examples considered. | 04-23-2009 |
20090147831 | METHOD OF MULTIPLE ACCESS COMMUNICATION IN A CENTRALIZED NETWORK BASED ON AN ULTRA WIDEBAND IMPULSE PHYSICAL LAYER - Method of multiple access communication in a centralized network based on an ultra wideband impulse physical layer allowing code-based multiple access, each user being associated with a code, the transmission being performed in an asynchronous manner in a propagation medium with multiple paths. It is characterized in that a criterion is established so as to find the codes of the Nu various users making it possible to minimize the variance of the multi-user interference J | 06-11-2009 |
20090262787 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Satellite Television and Other Data to Mobile Antennas - A low profile low cost mobile in-motion antenna system for satellite TV reception. | 10-22-2009 |
20100008401 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING TIME-HOPPING ULTRA-WIDE BANDWIDTHS SIGNALS - A novel receiver structure is proposed for detecting a time-hopping νltrat-wide bandwidth signal in the presence of multiple access interference. The proposed structure achieves better bit error rate performance than the conventional matched receiver when operating in multiple access interference. When operating in a multiple access interference-plus-Gaussian-noise environment, the receiver structure outperforms the conventional matched filter receiver for moderate to large values of signal-to-noise ratio. A receiver structure with adaptive limiting threshold is further proposed to ensure the performance of the soft-limiting receiver always meets or surpasses the performance of the conventional UWB receiver for all values of signal-to-noise ratio. | 01-14-2010 |
20100183050 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Satellite Television and Other Data to Mobile Antennas - A low profile low cost mobile in-motion antenna system for satellite TV reception. | 07-22-2010 |
20100246639 | TIME-HOPPING SEQUENCE FOR BURST MODE COMMUNICATIONS - A method consisting of determining, by a symbol mapper, whether a previous burst position is below a threshold, wherein the previous burst position defines a location within a previous symbol. A determination that the previous burst position is below the threshold causes generating, by the symbol mapper, a random number in a complete set, the random number defines a current burst position, the current burst position defines a location within a current symbol and sending or receiving a value in the current burst position. A determination that the previous burst position is above the threshold causes generating, by the symbol mapper, a random number in a reduced set, the random number defines a modified current burst position, the modified current burst position defines a location within the current symbol and sending or receiving a value in the modified current burst position. | 09-30-2010 |
20110002362 | SYMBOL ESTIMATION FOR CHAOTIC SPREAD SPECTRUM SIGNAL - A communications system includes RF hardware ( | 01-06-2011 |
20110122924 | RAPID ACQUISITION METHOD FOR IMPULSE ULTRA-WIDEBAND SIGNALS - A method is provided that determines a delay and phase of an ultra-wide band signal in a communication system using a single correlator. A pulse search is executed that includes correlating a signal template with a UWB signal and sampling a preamble of the UWB signal at various time positions until a pulse in the signal template matches a pulse in the preamble. A chip boundary at which the pulse in the preamble is detected is identified using the signal template. A code search is executed for determining the correct phase of the received signal. The code search utilizes a plurality of phases having a same time-hopping sequence as the received signal. Each pulse of the phases is positioned at the determined chip boundary within each respective chip pulse position. Chips pulse positions of the phases are compared with the chip pulse positions of the UWB signal for determining a phase match. | 05-26-2011 |
20110128994 | ZONAL UWB RECEIVER AND METHOD - A novel ultra-wide bandwidth receiver structure dubbed the “zonal” receiver is proposed to detect time-hopping ultra-wide bandwidth signals in multiple access interference channels. The zonal receiver outperforms the conventional matched filter ultra-wide bandwidth receiver and the recently proposed soft-limiting ultra-wide bandwidth receiver when only MAI is present, or AWGN is negligible compared to MAI. In more practical mixed MAI-plus-AWGN environments, the zonal ultra-wide bandwidth receiver achieves better performance than the conventional matched filter ultra-wide bandwidth receiver, the recently proposed soft-limiting ultra-wide bandwidth receiver, and the recently proposed adaptive threshold soft-limiting ultra-wide bandwidth receiver. In multipath fading UWB channels, a new Rake receiver based on the zonal UWB receiver design has been proposed, this new Rake receiver can achieve better BER performance than the conventional matched filter based Rake receiver. | 06-02-2011 |
20110249703 | JOINT DEMODULATION AND SYNCHRONIZATION IN ULTRA WIDEBAND SYSTEMS - A method of demodulating at a receiver a plurality of symbols b | 10-13-2011 |
20110261862 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND PROCESSING RECEIVED SIGNAL WITH PULSE SEQUENCE - Methods of detecting a pulse sequence in a received signal are disclosed, each of which entails operating on samples of the received signal. One method entails determining a correlation of samples with a reference sequence, and detecting the pulse sequence based on the correlation. Another method entails selecting a reference sample associated with a pulse, and detecting the pulse sequence by analyzing samples based on one or more lengths of a time hopping interval and the reference sample. Another method entails selecting a reference sample associated with non-restricted time hopping intervals, and detecting the pulse sequence by analyzing samples that are based on substantially one or more lengths of a half pulse interval and the reference sample. Further, disclosed is a method of determining a timing drift by selecting samples, determining a time delay between the selected samples, and determining the timing drift based on the determined time delay and an expected time delay. | 10-27-2011 |
20110268158 | FLEXIBLE CAPACITY SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM WITH FLEXIBLE ALLOCATION BETWEEN FORWARD AND RETURN CAPACITY - Systems and methods for supporting more flexible coverage areas and spatial capacity assignments using satellite communications systems are disclosed. Antenna elements are arranged in one or more phased arrays. The phased arrays may be used to receive uplink communications, transmit downlink communications, or both receive uplink communications and transmit downlink communications. Beam forming networks (BFN's) associated with the one or more phased arrays may be dynamic, allowing for movement of the locations of the receive beams, the transmit beams, or both the receive beams and transmit beams. The beams may then “hop” from location to location according to a predefined or dynamic hopping pattern. In some embodiments, the hopping patterns may be time-varying and may be changed or updated on-the-fly. | 11-03-2011 |
20110274141 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONIZATION - A method and apparatus of synchronizing pulsed wireless communication between a first transceiver and a second transceiver. It includes the steps of transmitting a pulse signal from a first transceiver to a second transceiver; transmitting a reflection signal from the second transceiver to the first transceiver if the transmitted pulse signal is received at the second transceiver within an active reception period of the second transceiver; and detecting the reflection pulse to determine synchronization between the first transceiver and the second transceiver. Embodiments of the invention also relate to an apparatus for carrying out the method. In one embodiment, the reflection signal is generated by a super-regenerative oscillator. | 11-10-2011 |
20110280283 | SIGNAL PROCESSING ARRANGEMENT AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing arrangement is designed to process a digitalized phase-modulated and/or digitalized spreaded input signal ( | 11-17-2011 |
20110292972 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMTTING AND RECEIVING SIGNAL WITH QUASI-PERIODIC PULSE SEQUENCE - System and method are disclosed for synchronization of a transmitting device and a receiving device that communicate with each other via pulse modulation. The synchronization technique entails the transmitting device sending one or more quasi-periodic pulse sequences to the receiving device. A quasi-periodic pulse sequence is based on a substantially periodic pulse sequence, and may include some non-periodic pulses or not include some periodic pulses. The transmitting device may transmit frames each including a preamble that comprises one or more quasi-periodic pulse sequences, and a data payload that may comprise data. The receiving device receives the signal, generates samples of the signal, and detects the quasi-periodic pulse sequences in the received signal by analyzing samples based on a sample associated with a pulse and the period associated with the substantially periodic pulse sequence. The receiving device is further able to detect frames based on the detection of the sequence, and extract data therefrom. | 12-01-2011 |
20120014414 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CHANNEL RESOURCE IN BEACON-ENABLED WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORK (WPAN) - Provided are a node device of a beacon-enabled Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) managing a channel resource and a method thereof. The node device may generate a pseudo random binary sequence (PRBS) and generate a hopping sequence based on a number of available channels using the PRBS, thereby generating a hopping sequence having a characteristic of pseudo randomness and selecting a channel to be hopped, using the hopping sequence. | 01-19-2012 |
20130010833 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, PILOT TRANSMITTING METHOD, AND PROPAGATION PATH ESTIMATING METHOD - Provided is a terminal apparatus that can suppress the increase in interference between pilot signals in the same slot, while also suppressing the degradation of the flexibility to design cell cluster structures. When hopping information indicates an inter-slot hopping, a mapping unit ( | 01-10-2013 |
20130077656 | RADIO TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND RADIO TRANSMISSION METHOD - Disclosed are a radio transmission device and a radio transmission method which can reduce a processing amount or a memory amount while maintaining the randomizing effect of other cell interference. When using as a reference signal, a ZC sequence of the sequence length uniquely correlated to a transmission bandwidth of a reference signal, as the transmission bandwidth becomes smaller and the sequence length of the ZC sequence becomes shorter, the sequence is switched at a shorter time interval and as the transmission bandwidth becomes greater and the sequence length of the ZC sequence becomes longer, the switching is performed at a longer time interval. Thus, a reference signal is generated by using the ZC sequence in accordance with the timing into which the reference signal transmission bandwidth and the sequence are switched. | 03-28-2013 |
20140064336 | ULTRA WIDEBAND MODULATION FOR BODY AREA NETWORKS - A symbol modulation system applicable to a body area network is disclosed herein. The symbol modulation system includes a symbol mapper. The symbol mapper is configured to determine a time within a predetermined symbol transmission interval at which a transmission representative of the symbol will occur. The time is determined based on a value of a symbol and a value of a time-hopping sequence. The time is selected from a plurality of symbol value based time slots, and a plurality of time-hopping sequence sub-time-slots within each symbol value based time slot. The symbol mapper is configured to generate a single guard interval within the symbol transmission interval. The single guard interval is positioned to terminate the symbol transmission interval. | 03-06-2014 |
20140161154 | MODULATION AND EQUALIZATION IN AN ORTHONORMAL TIME-FREQUENCY SHIFTING COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A method for modulating data for transmission within a communication system. The method includes establishing a time-frequency shifting matrix of dimension N×N, wherein N is greater than one. The method further includes combining the time-frequency shifting matrix with a data frame to provide an intermediate data frame. A transformed data matrix is provided by permuting elements of the intermediate data frame. A modulated signal is generated in accordance with elements of the transformed data matrix. | 06-12-2014 |
20140233609 | ULTRA WIDEBAND MODULATION FOR BODY AREA NETWORKS - A symbol modulation system applicable to a body area network is disclosed herein. The symbol modulation system includes a symbol mapper. The symbol mapper is configured to determine a time within a predetermined symbol transmission interval at which a transmission representative of the symbol will occur. The time is determined based on a value of a symbol and a value of a time-hopping sequence. The time is selected from a plurality of symbol value based time slots, and a plurality of time-hopping sequence sub-time-slots within each symbol value based time slot. The symbol mapper is configured to generate a single guard interval within the symbol transmission interval. The single guard interval is positioned to terminate the symbol transmission interval. | 08-21-2014 |
20150010042 | IMPULSE RADIO ULTRA WIDE BANDWIDTH DATA TRANSMISSION ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND ENCODING/DECODING MODULE - The present invention provides an IR-UWB data transmission encoding/decoding method and module. The encoding method comprises: in each unit time period lasting T seconds, receiving an N-bit of binary data of an M-bit binary data stream and generating UWB impulse radio signal having a specific frequency fi, determining and generating an amplitude value Ax of the UWB impulse radio signal having the specific frequency fi according to the remaining M-N bits binary data, and finally transmitting the UWB impulse radio signal having the specific frequency fi and the amplitude value. The decoding method corresponds to the encoding method. According to the present invention, the data transmission rate can be increased by four times compared with the conventional data transmission rate without increasing the circuit complexity, which is useful and attractive to the IR-UWB system. | 01-08-2015 |
20150043619 | TIME-PHASE-HOPPING MODULATION AND DEMODULATION OF MULTIPLE BIT STREAMS WITH PHASE-CHANGE FREQUENCY CONTROL, SUCH AS FOR WIRELESS CHIP AREA NETWORK - Methods and systems to modulate and demodulate first and second path bits within sequences of pulses, where each pulse represents first and second path bits and is position-modulated and phase-modulated based on binary values of the corresponding bits, with no more than 1 phase change per N pulses. Position-modulation may be based on first-path bits. Phase-modulation may be based on second-path bits. A modulator first path has an input data rate Q times that of a second path. The first may include an N-bit encoder. The second path may include a Q-bit encoder and an N-bit repetition encoder. A demodulator includes a first path to determine first path bit values based on pulse coordinates integrated over N frames, and a second path to determine second path bit values based on further integration over Q frames. | 02-12-2015 |
20150295620 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE ARRIVAL TIME OF A UWB PULSE AND CORRESPONDING RECEIVER - A method for determining arrival time of a UWB pulse at a receiver. When a pulse is modulated at an RF frequency, the receiver includes a quadrature demodulator, a first correlating stage for correlating the in-phase signal with the first and second signals of an orthogonal base on a time window and a second correlating stage for correlating the quadrature signal with the first and second signals of the orthogonal base on the same window, a phase estimator estimating the phase of the signal received in the orthogonal base from the correlation results of the first and/or second correlating stage(s), and a computing device determining the arrival time from the phase thus estimated. | 10-15-2015 |
20150349839 | ULTRA WIDEBAND MODULATION FOR BODY AREA NETWORKS - A symbol modulation system applicable to a body area network is disclosed herein. The symbol modulation system includes a symbol mapper. The symbol mapper is configured to determine a time within a predetermined symbol transmission interval at which a transmission representative of the symbol will occur. The time is determined based on a value of a symbol and a value of a time-hopping sequence. The time is selected from a plurality of symbol value based time slots, and a plurality of time-hopping sequence sub-time-slots within each symbol value based time slot. The symbol mapper is configured to generate a single guard interval within the symbol transmission interval. The single guard interval is positioned to terminate the symbol transmission interval. | 12-03-2015 |
20160049989 | DETECTION OF SCRAMBLING CODE CONFUSION - Detection of a confusion caused by scrambling code reuse is provided herein. Timing measurements, as observed by a mobile device, and an identification of primary scrambling codes associated with the timing measurements are captured. The timing measurements are identified by the primary scrambling codes for the particular radio measured. The mobile device also reports its location information. Radios for which timing measurements have been received are paired. Based on the paired radios and a history of observed time difference reference values for radio pairs, comparisons are made between paired radios having at least one common radio. Radios, exhibiting a set of values that is near an expected range, are removed from the analysis. Radios, exhibiting two sets of values that are distinct, are isolated in order to identify the radio that is causing the scrambling code confusion. | 02-18-2016 |
20160072547 | EVALUATION OF COMPRESSED SENSING IN UWB SYSTEMS WITH NBI - A method of mitigating narrow band interference (NBI) in ultra wide band (UWB) systems operating around 10 GHz mitigates multiuser interference from IEEE 802.22 and WiMAX, wherein the multiuser interference interfers with both trained and blind UWB systems, with the trained UWB system using pilot symbol assisted modulation. The method passes a received UWB signal through a band pass filter (BPF), wherein the BPF is located at a UWB receiver and the UWB signal is a Hanning modulated pulse centered at 4 GHz frequency. The method further measures a plurality of test functions, determines a number of active users, notch filters NBI signals, based on the determined number of active users, passes the notch filtered signal through a quadratic programming algorithm, to perform joint decoding, estimates an arrival of a UWB payload, and demodulates the UWB payload, based on the estimated arrival of the UWB payload. | 03-10-2016 |
20160119021 | PROVIDING ORTHOGONALITY FOR REFERENCE SIGNALS BY CIRCULAR ROTATION OF A BASE SEQUENCE IN THE FREQUENCY DOMAIN - A first and second communication device and respective method thereby are provided for performing a radio transmission. The method performed by the first communication device comprises generating a base sequence, and replicating the base sequence per each RS panned by an OCC. The method further comprises applying, to the base sequences, an individual RS-specific circular rotation, wherein each rotated base sequence corresponds to an RS. The method also comprises multiplying each RS with a respective value of the OCC, and mapping each frequency domain RS to a subframe. Still further, the method comprises converting the subframe to a time domain; and transmitting the subframe to the second communication device. | 04-28-2016 |
20160134328 | Signal representing data, method and device for generating such signal and method and device for determining the represented data from such signal - A method and a device are described for generating a signal representing data. The method for generating a signal has a step of modulating a portion ( | 05-12-2016 |