Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090086839 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DECODING AND ENCODING DATA - A method for decoding an input data sequence is provided. The method comprises generating a plurality of test sequences, determining an order for the plurality of test sequences, such that each test sequence differs from its adjacent test sequences by a respective predefined number of bits, and carrying out a maximum likelihood process with the ordered test sequences and the input data sequence thereby generating a maximum likelihood sequence. | 04-02-2009 |
20090190570 | Methods and Device for Transmitting Data from a First Communication Device to a Second Communication Device - A method of transmitting data from a first communication device to a second communication device is provided. The method comprises transmitting at least one first data portion, transmitting a second data portion synchronized with the transmission of a corresponding data portion of a third communication device to the second communication device, and the transmission of the at least one first data portion being arranged such that it is received by the second communication device before the data portion of the third communication device corresponding to the second data portion. | 07-30-2009 |
20090219858 | Method and System for Transmitting a Signal to a Communication Device in a Cellular Communication System - A method for transmitting a signal to a communication device in a cellular communication system is provided. The method comprises transmitting a signal using a first antenna being provided in a first sector of the cellular communication system, and transmitting another signal using a second antenna being provided in a second sector of the cellular communication system, wherein the first sector at least partially overlaps the second sector, wherein the signal transmitted by the second antenna is a cyclic delayed version of the signal transmitted by the first antenna. | 09-03-2009 |
20090219944 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ALLOCATING FREQUENCY RANGES - A method of allocating frequency ranges to at least one communication device is provided. The method comprises determining available frequency ranges within a plurality of frequency ranges, combining the available frequency ranges to at least one combined logical frequency range, and allocating the at least one combined logical frequency range to the at least one communication device. | 09-03-2009 |
20090252048 | Method and Devices For Determining Available Frequency Ranges - A method of determining available frequency ranges for at least one communication device is provided. The method comprises providing a downlink transmission time interval, determining available frequency ranges within a plurality of frequency ranges after the downlink transmission time interval, and providing an uplink transmission time interval after the determining of the available frequency ranges. | 10-08-2009 |
20090304045 | Method and Device for Transmitting Data Between a Communication Network Unit and a Plurality of Communication Devices - A method for transmitting data between a communication network unit and a plurality of communication devices is provided, comprising using a plurality of carrier signals grouped into at least one carrier signal group, determining a subset of communication devices of the plurality of communication devices, and using the at least one carrier signal group for data transmission between the communication network and the communication devices of the subset of communication devices. | 12-10-2009 |
20100015935 | Method, Device and Computer Program for Classifying a Received Signal - An embodiment of the invention provides a method for classifying a received signal. The method includes determining a covariance matrix of signal values of the received signal, and determining an eigenvalue matrix of the covariance matrix. The eigenvalue matrix includes the eigenvalues of the covariance matrix. A first function is determined from at least one eigenvalue of the eigenvalues of the covariance matrix. A second function is determined from at least one eigenvalue of the eigenvalues of the covariance matrix, wherein the second function is different from the first function. Dependent from a comparison between a value of the first function and a value of the second function, the received signal is classified into a signal comprising data or into a noise signal. | 01-21-2010 |
20100061256 | Methods of Determining Whether a Frequency Channel is Available for Data Transmission for a Communication Device - A method of determining whether a frequency channel is available for data transmission for a communication device is provided. The method provided comprises dynamically selecting a time interval for determining whether the frequency channel is available for data transmission for the communication device. The method provided further comprises determining whether the frequency channel is available for data transmission for the communication device, during the time interval selected. | 03-11-2010 |
20100111235 | METHOD OF DETERMINING AS TO WHETHER A RECEIVED SIGNAL INCLUDES AN INFORMATION SIGNAL - A method of determining as to whether a received signal includes an information signal is provided. The method provided includes determining a covariance matrix from a received signal and transforming the covariance matrix into a transformed covariance matrix, wherein the transformation is configured such that the transformed covariance matrix is a non-diagonal matrix in case the received signal includes the information signal, wherein the non-diagonal matrix includes non-zero non-diagonal matrix elements. The method provided further includes determining a first function using at least one of the non-zero non-diagonal matrix elements of the transformed covariance matrix, determining a second function using at least one matrix element of the transformed covariance matrix, wherein the second function is different from the first function, and determining as to whether a received signal includes an information signal based on a comparison of a value of the first function and a value of the second function. | 05-06-2010 |
20110243197 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE SPREADING FOR INTERLEAVED FDMA SYSTEM - A transmitter comprises a first spreading unit configured to multiply each of multiple data symbols with a first spreading code sequence of a first spreading factor; a compression and repetition unit configured to compress output signals of the first spreading unit in time domain and repeat the compressed signal L times (where L is a natural number greater than or equal to 2); a phase modulation unit configured to multiply the compressed and repeated signal with a user dependent phase and output a data block consisting of L sub-blocks; a second spreading unit configured to replicate the data block according to a second spreading factor and multiply each set of the replicated sub-blocks with a second spreading code sequence of the second spreading factor to produce a two-dimensionally spread signal; and a wireless transmission unit configured to transmit the two-dimensionally spread signal using a single-carrier transmission scheme. | 10-06-2011 |
20110249776 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AS TO WHETHER A RECEIVED SIGNAL INCLUDES A DATA SIGNAL - A method of determining as to whether a received signal includes a data signal is provided. The method provided includes determining a first value based on a cyclic auto-correlation of the received signal and determining a second value based on the cyclic auto-correlation of the received signal. The method provided further includes determining as to whether a received signal includes a data signal based on a comparison of the first value and the second value. | 10-13-2011 |
20130045703 | Method for Spectrum Sensing and Communication Device - A method for spectrum sensing is described comprising receiving a signal using a plurality of receive antennas; forming a set of received signals including the received signal of each antenna; determining a cyclic auto-correlation of the set of received signals; estimating, for each receive antenna, channel state information of the radio channel via which the receive antenna receives the signal based on the determined cyclic auto-correlation; performing maximum ratio combining of the received signal samples based on the estimated channel state information; determining a measure of the cyclostationarity of the received signal based on the result of the maximum ratio combining; and performing cyclostationarity detection spectrum sensing based on the determined measure of the cyclostationarity of the received signal. | 02-21-2013 |
20130225105 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Product for Identifying Frequency Bands, and a Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Product for Evaluating Performance - According to embodiments of the present invention, a method for identifying one or more frequency bands in a received signal. The method comprising: calculating a wavelet product of the received signal; setting a threshold for local maxima of the wavelet product; and detecting one or more edges in the received signal based on local maxima of the wavelet product which are greater than the threshold to identify one or more frequency bands in the received signal. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided. Embodiments also relate to a method for evaluating performance of a method for identifying one or more frequency bands in a received signal. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided. | 08-29-2013 |