Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080212538 | Antenna Selection For Multi-Input Multi-Output System - A transmitting station in a radio network includes at least one radio frequency (RF) chain, a packet generator configured to generate a sounding packet including a number of training frames and a signaling frame, and at least one antenna element coupled to the at least one RF chain and configured to broadcast a transmit signal including the sounding packet. The packet generator produces in the sounding packet the number of training frames and the content of the signaling frame based at least in part on the number of antenna elements and the number RF chains. | 09-04-2008 |
20080247370 | Training Signals for Selecting Antennas and Beams in Mimo Wireless Lans - A computer implemented method selects antennas in a multiple-input, multiple-output wireless local area network that includes multiple stations, and each station includes a set of antennas. Multiple consecutively transmitted sounding packets are received in a station. Each sounding packet corresponds to a different subset of the set of antennas. A channel matrix is estimated from the multiple consecutively transmitted sounding packets, and a subset of antennas is selected according to the channel matrix. | 10-09-2008 |
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 |
20090016312 | Method and System for Selecting Antennas Adaptively in OFDMA Networks - A method selects antennas in an OFDMA network. A channel state of a downlink is measured using a downlink subframe received in a mobile station from a base station. A channel state of an uplink is measured using an uplink subframe received in the base station from the mobile station. Next, the method compares the channel states to determine whether the downlink and the uplink are reciprocal or not. The mobile station can perform receive antenna selection based on the quality of the downlink channel state. The mobile station can also perform transmit antenna selection when instructed by the base station. | 01-15-2009 |
20090016372 | Signaling and Training for Antenna Selection in OFDMA Networks - A method selects antennas in an OFDMA wireless network including a base station and a mobile station. The mobile station measures a channel state of a downlink in a downlink subframe using different subsets of available antennas, and selects a subset of receive antennas for downlink reception based on the channel states between the base station and the different subsets of antennas at the mobile station. The base station measures the channel state in an uplink using an uplink subframe received in the base station from the mobile station, and selects a subset of transmit antennas for mobile station's uplink transmission based on the channel states between the base station and different subset of antennas at the mobile station. | 01-15-2009 |
20090022170 | Multiple Access by Varying Received Power in Wireless Networks - The invention describes a method for transmitting a packet in a wireless network of nodes. At a beginning of a scheduled time slot a metric in the node is set, in which the metric indicates a need to transmit a packet to a receiver in the wireless network. The metric is mapped to a received power level and the packet is transmitted at a transmit power level so that the received power level is achieved at the receiver. | 01-22-2009 |
20090075590 | Method and System for Estimating Time of Arrival of Signals Using Multiple Different Time Scales - A method and system ( | 03-19-2009 |
20090086690 | Method for Selecting Antennas and Beams in MIMO Wireless LANs - A computer implemented method selects antennas in a multiple-input, multiple-output wireless local area network that includes multiple stations, and each station includes a set of antennas. Multiple consecutively transmitted sounding packets are received in a station. Each sounding packet corresponds to a different subset of the set of antennas. A channel matrix is estimated from the multiple consecutively transmitted sounding packets. A frame including a high throughput (HT) control field is sent to initiate a selecting of antennas, and a subset of antennas is selected according to the channel matrix. | 04-02-2009 |
20090091400 | Method and Apparatus for Generating Dynamically Varying Time Hopping Sequences for UWB Signals - A method and apparatus modulate a polarity of a burst of pulses of the impulse radio signal using a first pseudo noise sequence generated by a shift register and a position of the burst of pulses using a second pseudo noise sequence generated by the shift register. | 04-09-2009 |
20090117911 | Cooperative Base Stations in Wireless Networks - The embodiments of the invention provide an adaptive method for base station cooperation in a wireless network. In a multi-user communications network that includes base stations, and in which each base station is associated with a cell, and in which each cell includes one or more mobile stations, each base station determines pre-coding matrices for full-cooperation, semi-cooperation and non-cooperation. Each base stations also determines a sum rate SR | 05-07-2009 |
20090124290 | Antenna Selection for SDMA Transmissions in OFDMA Networks - A method for selects antennas in a spatial division multiple access (SDMA) wireless network that includes a base station and a set of mobile stations, in which the set of mobile stations includes one or more designated mobile stations, and in which each designated mobile station has a set of multiple antennas. Channel state information (CSI) is acquired for a channel between each mobile station in the set of mobile stations and the base station, and in which the CSI for each designated mobile station is acquired for different subsets of the set of multiple antennas at each designated mobile station. For each designated mobile station, a globally optimal subset of the set of antennas is selected based on the CSI acquired from all the mobile stations. | 05-14-2009 |
20090129366 | Multiple Power-Multiple Access in Wireless Networks for Interference Cancellation - A method and network communicate packets by assigning, in each one of a set of multiple transmitters, a power level to a packet to be transmitted during a time interval. The power level is selected from a set of power levels available for the set of multiple transmitters. The power levels in the set range from highest to lowest. There is one packet for each transmitter such that there is a set of packets to be transmitted during the time interval. The set of packets is transmitted concurrently during the time interval to enable decoding of at least one of the packets in the set of packets during the time interval. | 05-21-2009 |
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 |
20090147728 | Wireless Cooperative Relay Network Transmitting Data using Imperfect CSI - A method, system and network transmit data from a base station, via relay stations, to user stations. Imperfect channel state information (CSI) for downlink channels from the base station and the relay stations to the user stations is acquired. For each candidate transmission strategy of a set of candidate transmission strategies, a corresponding beamforming matrix is determined according the imperfect CSI. For each beamforming matrix, a bound on an expected target benefit function is determined, and a particular one of the bounds is selected. The data are then transmitted from the base station, via the relay stations, to the user stations according to the beamforming matrix associated and the candidate strategy associated with the selected bound. | 06-11-2009 |
20090170458 | Method and Receiver for Identifying a Leading Edge Time Period in a Received Radio Signal - A method for identifying a leading edge time period of a received radio signal includes identifying a greatest energy time period in a sequence of time periods. The received radio signal has a greatest average energy in the greatest energy time period. The method also includes identifying a least energy time period in the sequence of time periods. The received radio signal has a least average energy in the least energy time period. Further, the method includes setting a threshold energy based on the greatest average energy and the least average energy, determining a number of window time periods based on a characteristic of a radio channel used by the received radio signal, and identifying as a leading edge time period an earliest time period that precedes the greatest energy time period within the number of window time periods. The received radio signal in the leading edge time period has an average energy greater than or equal to the threshold energy. | 07-02-2009 |
20090180568 | Hybrid Automatic Repeat Requests Coding in MIMO Networks - A method transmits a block of symbols in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network including a transmitter having a set of transmit antennas and a receiver having a set of receive antennas. A block of symbols is coded with a first code to generate a first block, which is transmitted and received. If a decoding of the first block is incorrect, then block of symbols is coded with the first code and then a second code different than the first code to generate a second block. The second block is transmitted, received and combined with the first block to recover the block of symbols. | 07-16-2009 |
20090189820 | Wireless UWB Connection for Rotating RF Antenna Array - A movable portion of an array of antenna elements receives RF signals. A movable ultra-wideband (UWB) transmitter is connected to each antenna element, via a RF to UWB converter. A fixed portion of the antenna array is separated from the movable portion by an air gap. The fixed portion includes one fixed UWB receiver for each movable UWB transmitter. An application system is connected to the fixed UWB receivers. The UWB signals from the movable transmitter are sent across the air gap to the fixed UWB receivers to be processed by the application system as the movable portion rotates. | 07-30-2009 |
20090247229 | Method for Selecting Antennas in a Wireless Networks - A method selects antennas in a wireless network including a base station and one or more transceivers. The base station specifies times, subcarriers and subsets of antennas to use to transmit sounding reference signals (SRS) to the base station. Then, the transceiver transmits the SRS according to the specified times and subcarriers using different subsets of the set antennas. The SRS are received in the base station, and the base station selects one of the different subset of the antennas based on the received SRS, and indicates the selected subset of the antennas to the transceiver. | 10-01-2009 |
20090262852 | Coding for Large Antenna Arrays in MIMO Networks - A method transmits a sequence of symbols in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network including a transmitter having a set of transmit antennas and a receiver having a set of receive antennas. The sequence of symbols is represented by a vector S=[S | 10-22-2009 |
20090268641 | Method for Switching a Mobile Station between Groups in Wimax Networks - A method switches a mobile station (MS) from a current group to a new group in a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) including a base station (BS). The BS operates in full duplex mode and the MS operates in half-duplex mode, such that the WiMAX network operates in semi-duplex mode. The MS receives from the BS, while the MS is in the current group, a group switching request in a downlink (DL) sub-frame. The MS also receives structural information regarding frames of the new group. The MS switches from the current group to the new group after receiving the structural information. | 10-29-2009 |
20090290563 | Antenna/Beam Selection Training in MIMO Wireless LANs with Different Sounding Frames - A method selects antennas in a multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) wireless local area network (WLAN) that includes a plurality of stations, and each station includes a set of antennas. Plural consecutive packets, received at a station, include plural consecutive sounding packets. Each sounding packet corresponds to a different subset of the set of antennas, and at least one of the plural consecutive packets includes a high throughput (HT) control field including a signal to initiate antenna selection and a number N indicative of a number of sounding packets which follow the at least one packet including the HT control field and which are to be used for antenna selection. A channel matrix is estimated based on a characteristic of the channel as indicated by the received N sounding packets, and a subset of antennas is selected according to the channel matrix. Station and computer program product embodiments include similar features. | 11-26-2009 |
20100128703 | Method for Routing Packets in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks with Probabilistic Delay Guarantees - A method determines an optimal route to deliver a packet from a source node via relay nodes to a destination node in a network. A graph of nodes connected by edges represents possible routes in the network. A probability that the packet arrives at the destination before a deadline time is assigned to each edge. A minimal delay route is selected from the possible routes, and an arrival time for delivering the packet using the minimal delay route is determined. The arrival time is comparing to a deadline time, and the probabilities are scaled accordingly until the minimal delay route is an optimal route. | 05-27-2010 |
20100226415 | Mapping for MIMO Communication Apparatus - A method, MIMO communication device and electronic storage medium for mapping symbols during a duration of each plural consecutive frames of each of a plurality of first data streams ( | 09-09-2010 |