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| 20080253471 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE BIT LOADING IN A MULTIPLE ANTENNA ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) system, a transmitter and/or receiver communicate separate data streams on non-orthogonal spatial channels. Each spatial channel may use the same set of OFDM subcarriers and may take advantage of the multipath characteristics of the spatial channel allowing the communication of additional data without an increase in frequency bandwidth. Space-frequency subcarrier modulation assignments may be dynamically assigned on a per subcarrier basis as well as a per spatial channel basis to help maximize the data-carrying capacity of the channel. In some embodiments, each of the spatial channels may be associated with one of a plurality of spatially diverse antennas. In other embodiments, beamforming may be performed to allow the transmission and/or reception of signals within the spatial channels. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080310526 | Method, device, and apparatus for multi-stream multi-band transmission - A transmitter may include a set of stream groups, each including two or more streams producing a set of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) stream-symbols and a coding unit interleaving the stream-symbols into an interleaved signal. An input bit multiplexer may route an input data signal to be divided among each of the streams. An inverse fast Fourier transform unit may operate on a combined signal formed from interleaving the interleaved signals from each stream group. Each stream may include for example a baseband signal processor producing the OFDM stream-symbols. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090110103 | ADAPTIVE PUNCTURING TECHNIQUE FOR MULTICARRIER SYSTEMS - Various embodiments are described for adaptive puncturing techniques. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090196232 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO EXCHANGE CHANNEL INFORMATION - A method and apparatus to exchange channel state information between two or more stations is provided, The channel state information may be used to adapt a power, a transmission rate and a modulation scheme of a transmitted signal. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090245405 | MIMO TRANSMITTER AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A GROUP OF SEQUENTIAL OFDM SYMBOLS IN ACCORDANCE WITH AN IEEE 802.16 COMMUNICATION STANDARD - A multiple-input-multiple output (MIMO) transmitter for transmitting a group of sequential orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbols on a time-division duplexed (TDD) channel in accordance with an IEEE 802.16 standard using a plurality of antennas. The MIMO transmitter comprises a spatial-frequency parser to parse a block of bits into spatial-frequency blocks of a variable number of coded bits, and subcarrier modulators to individually modulate OFDM subcarriers with the spatial-frequency blocks in accordance with spatial-frequency subcarrier modulation assignments to generate groups of symbol-modulated subcarriers. The TDD channel comprises a plurality of the groups of the OFDM subcarriers, and the OFDM subcarriers within each group of subcarriers and within each group of sequential OFDM symbols have the same spatial-frequency subcarrier modulation assignments. | 10-01-2009 |
| 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 |
| 20090257454 | OFDM TRANSMITTER WITH ADAPTIVE BIT INTERLEAVER FOR ADAPTIVE BIT LOADING AND METHOD FOR OFDM COMMUNICATIONS - A multi-antenna transmitter includes an adaptive bit interleaver for orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) communications. The adaptive bit interleaver permutes a variable number of coded bits per OFDM symbol (Ncbps). The variable number of coded bits is calculated based on individual subcarrier modulation assignments for orthogonal subcarriers. The interleaver matrix size may be based on the variable number of coded bits per OFDM symbol and the number of subchannels. The interleaver may add padding bits to the interleaver matrix to fill any remaining positions, and after performing an interleaving operation, the interleaver may prune the padding bits to provide a sequence of interleaved bits for subsequent modulation on the orthogonal subcarriers and transmission by more than one antenna. The transmitter may transmit the OFDM symbol in accordance with an IEEE 802.16 standard. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20100135238 | SYSTEMS FOR COMMUNICATING USING MULTIPLE FREQUENCY BANDS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Communication signals using a first and a second frequency band in a wireless network is described herein. The first frequency band may be associated with a first beamwidth while the second frequency band may be associated with a second beamwidth. A method includes transmitting, in a first frequency band by a coordinating device, an indication of a first time resource and/or first frequency resource for a communication device to identify one or more neighbor communication devices that are capable of communicating over a second frequency band, receiving, in the first frequency band by the coordinating device, link availability information for the second frequency band based at least in part on the one or more neighbor communication devices identified as being capable of communicating over the second frequency band, and transmitting, in the first frequency band, a transmission schedule to indicate to the communication device a second time resource and/or second frequency resource in which the communication device can communicate with at least one of the one or more neighbor communications devices over the second frequency band, the transmission schedule being based at least in part on the received link availability information. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100135426 | MODULATION SCHEME FOR ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING SYSTEMS OR THE LIKE - Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, bit and power loading may be utilized to select a modulation rate and subcarrier power scaling based on channel state information. As a result, a higher data rate may be utilized for a given signal-to-noise ratio while maintaining a constant bit error rate. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100195485 | CHANNEL ESTIMATION FEEDBACK IN AN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING SYSTEM OR THE LIKE - Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a channel state information packet is encoded by a receiver side device and is fed back to the transmitter side device. The transmitter side device decodes the channel state information packet to extract an estimate of the channel response function. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100195545 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE BIT LOADING IN A MULTIPLE ANTENNA ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of supporting multiple protocols in a wireless network operating according to an Institute for Electronic and Electrical Engineers IEEE) 802.16 standard, comprising adding a new convergence sub layer (CS) type in which an extra field is added to an 802.16 service data unit (SDU) to indicate which higher layer protocol is carried in a 802.16 SDU payload. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20110044273 | HIGH THROUGHPUT COMMUNICATION STATION AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING OVER A PRIMARY CHANNEL AND A SECONDARY CHANNEL - Embodiments of a high-throughput (HT) communication station (STA) and method for communicating over a primary and a secondary channel are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the high-throughput (HT) communication station (STA) comprises a physical layer (PHY) and a media-access control (MAC) layer to provide a data unit to the physical layer. The PHY layer may be configured to transmit a packet that includes the data unit over a channel bandwidth comprising a first channel and an additional channel in accordance with an OFDM communication technique. The packet may have a frame structure that includes a channel bandwidth parameter to indicate the channel bandwidth used, a modulation and coding parameter to indicate a modulation and coding scheme of the packet as transmitted over the channel bandwidth. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110044392 | Systems And Methods For High-Throughput Wideband Wireless Local Area Network Communications - A frame format provides for wideband wireless local area network communications and informs narrower-band communication units when the channels are occupied by wider-band communication units. In some embodiments, the frame format includes a channelization field identifying channels that are used for communicating subsequent wideband fields of a packet, and a wideband-header field communicated on the identified channels. The wideband-header field may identify sub-fields that may be present in the wideband-header field, and may identify the presence of a wideband-data field. A long-compatibility field may be present that provides protection at the MAC level. The long-compatibility field may transport MAC frames that may include medium-reservation information compatible with narrower-band communication units. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110096856 | OFDM TRANSMITTER AND METHOD FOR MULTI-USER MIMO TRANSMISSIONS - An orthogonal-frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) transmitter is configured to transmit a data unit in accordance with a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technique over a wideband channel comprising a 20 MHz channel and another channel using a plurality of spatially diverse antennas. The transmitter is further configured to include in the data unit, a parameter indicating a modulation and coding scheme and a parameter indicating number of spatial streams. Each of the spatial streams is encoded and beamformed for receipt by one or more different receiving stations. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110110467 | MULTI-USER MIMO RECEIVER AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING DATA UNITS OVER A WIDEBAND CHANNEL - A multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) receiver includes circuitry to receive a MIMO transmission through a plurality of antennas over a channel comprising two or more 20 MHz portions of bandwidth. The MIMO transmission comprises a plurality of streams, each transmitted over a corresponding spatial channel and configured for reception by multiple user stations. The MIMO receiver also includes circuitry to simultaneously accumulate signal information within at least two or more of the 20 MHz portions of bandwidth. Each 20 MHz portion comprises a plurality of OFDM subcarriers. The MIMO receiver also includes circuitry to demodulate at least one of the steams using receive beamforming techniques. In this way, multi-user protocol data units can be received. | 05-12-2011 |
