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| 20090097396 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING A CONTINUOUS PILOT CODE IN A MULTI-CARRIER SYSTEM - The present invention provides a method for transmitting/receiving a continuous pilot code in a multi-carrier system. The method for transmitting comprises: performing a time-frequency domain two dimensional encoding on an information bit stream to be transmitted; mapping the encoded bit stream to obtain a continuous pilot carrying encoding information; multiplexing a load, a discrete pilot and the mapped continuous pilot carrying the encoding information based on distribution of the load, the discrete pilot and the continuous pilot on a sub-carrier, to generate a frequency domain signal; and performing a frequency-time domain transforming on the generated frequency domain signal, to obtain a time domain sample. The method for receiving comprises: extracting the continuous pilot from an active carrier of a multi-carrier signal; and performing a time-frequency domain decoding on the extracted continuous pilots to obtain the decision of transmitted information bits. The invention ensures reliable transmission of the information without using additional bandwidth resource by carrying information in the continuous pilots using an encoding scheme. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20100027695 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CONTROL INFORMATION TO INSTRUCT RECEIVER - A method for transmitting control information to indicate a receiver, comprising following steps: the control information is formed at transmitting side and is encoded based on the working status of the transmitting side of the system; after the encoded control information is mapped, it is multiplexed with other pilot symbol and service load, then an OFDM symbol is generated; the OFDM symbol is transformed from frequency domain to time domain, then a time domain sampling signal is obtained and transmitted to the receiving side of the system; at the receiving side, the time domain sampling signal transmitted by the transmitting side is received and transformed from time domain to frequency domain to form OFDM symbol; the control information is obtained from the valid sub carrier of the OFDM symbol, and the control information is decoded; each work information is extracted form the decoded control information, and the receiving terminal is indicated to execute respective receive process based on the extracted work information. The method can ensure the receiving terminal to receive data based on its own expectation, then reduces the work power consumption of the receiving terminal, and saves the run cost of the digital broadcast system. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100192044 | QC-LDPC CODE DECODER AND CORRESPONDING DECODING METHOD - An efficient general QC-LDPC code decoder includes a general-purpose processor for distributing the storage space of the data memory block, and establishing an index for data addressing; a data memory block for storing the information used during decoding; a hardware accelerator for conducting part or all of the information processing operations including parity check, check node updating and variable node updating. A corresponding QC-LDPC code decoding method includes initializing the variable node information and performing parity check on the check matrix row block by row block; updating the check node row block by row block and updating the variable node column block by column block if any check equation is not met. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20110044390 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND DETECTING THE IDENTIFIER SEQUENCE OF THE BANDWIDTH-LIMITED TRANSMITTER - A system and method for generating and detecting identifier sequence of a bandwidth-limited transmitter are disclosed, comprising an identifier sequence generating portion and a detection portion. The identifier sequence generating portion comprises: generating a frequency-domain random sequence; generating a frequency-domain orthogonal sequence; performing frequency-domain truncation; performing frequency-time transformation; and performing cycle extension. The identifier sequence receiving portion comprises: truncating the time-domain for the received signal; performing time-frequency domain transformation to obtain a frequency-domain signal; generating frequency-domain random sequence; generating a frequency-domain orthogonal sequence; correlating the frequency-domain orthogonal sequence with the frequency-domain signal de-scrambled by the frequency-domain random sequence; and detecting an output from a frequency-domain correlator by a threshold detecting device and determining the transmitter identifier sequence. The random sequence bandwidth generated by the system and the method of the present invention can be configured flexibly according to transmission bandwidth requirement, and the sequence may be arbitrarily allocated at the power of each frequency point inside the bandwidth. The present invention may be widely applied to multimedia broadcasting, terrestrial radio broadcasting, cable broadcasting and the like. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110051825 | A MULTI-CARRIER DIGITAL MOBILE MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST SYSTEM AND THE DIGITAL INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD THEREOF - The present invention discloses a multi-carrier digital multimedia broadcast system and the digital information transmission method thereof. After RS encoding and byte interleaving, LDPC encoding, bit interleaving and constellation mapping to an upper layer of data streams in turn, the obtained data symbol is multiplexed with scattered pilots and continual pilots which include the system information to form an OFDM frequency domain symbol and scrambled; an OFDM time domain symbol is generated by IFFT transforming, and after inserted with the frame head to build a time slot, it is connected to form a signal frame of the physical layer; the signal frame of the physical layer is transmitted after being low-pass filtered and orthogonal upconverted. The system and method thereof provide wireless broadcast with high quality such as audio, video and multimedia data and the like for mobile, fixed and portable receivers, and can use the satellite transmission and terrestrial transmission method for transmitting. The method utilizes the LDPC OFDM scheme, and the system applies the microwave and large scale integrated circuit technologies while fulfills the needs for low cast and high performance. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110239077 | METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING CHECKING MATRIX OF LDPC CODE AND CODING AND DECODING APPARATUS UTILIZING THE METHOD - The present invention relates to a method for constructing LPDC code check matrix and encoding and decoding devices using the same. The encoding device encodes the inputted binary information and outputs the encoded system code sequence of position transformation. The encoding device comprises: a matrix multiplication module outputting a check sequence p which is obtained through the binary information sequence m multiplied with a matrix; a sorting index module having N memory units storing index values of a sorting table IDX in turn; and a sorting output module for sorting the m and p and outputting a code word c based on the index value stored in the sorting index table. The present invention constructs the LDPC code check matrix using an algebraic structure, obtaining the LDPC code with stable performance. In addition, the encoding and decoding devices of the present invention occupy less memory, which is preferable for optimization of the devices. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110268206 | METHOD AND DEVICE OF CHANNEL ESTIMATION FOR OFDM SYSTEM - The present invention relates to the field of communication technology. A channel estimation device for an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system is provided for performing channel estimation on data based on synchronization signal and pilot, which comprises: a synchronization signal based initial channel estimation module for performing initial channel estimation based on a synchronization signal in the data; a pilot channel tracking module for performing pilot channel tracking on the result of the initial channel estimation; a noise reduction module for performing noise reduction on the result of the pilot channel tracking; and an effective sub-carrier extraction module for extracting channel estimation values of effective sub-carriers from the result of the noise reduction. With the channel estimation method and device for OFDM system according to the present invention, the channel estimation is carried out jointly based on the synchronization signal and the pilot, such that the accuracy of channel estimation can be significantly improved and the performance requirements of the system can be satisfied without increasing the density of pilots and thus reducing the amount of system payload. Moreover, the synchronization signal can still be used for its original purpose of carrier and timing synchronization. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110299381 | MOBILE MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A mobile multimedia broadcast transmission system is provided, which comprises: a Reed-Solomon (RS) coding and byte interleaving unit, a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) coder, a bit interleaver, a constellation mapping unit, a frequency domain symbol generator, a scrambler, an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) unit, a time domain framing unit, and a transmitter. According to the technical solutions provided in the present invention, the system can provide high-quality mobile multimedia services for users in a 6 MHz operation bandwidth. Furthermore, an optimized selection is performed on RS coding according to the operation bandwidth of the system, thereby selecting an appropriate coding mode according to different channel conditions. Accordingly, the byte interleaver is optimized, such that suitable interleaving parameters can be used to perform byte interleaving. With the technical solutions provided in the present invention, the continuous pilots, the discrete pilots and the digital sub-carriers of the system can be suitably configured and allocated according to the actual bandwidth of the system, thereby suitably configuring the system overhead of the mobile multimedia broadcast transmission system to efficiently utilize spectral resources for data transmission. | 12-08-2011 |
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| 20080247932 | Method for making colloidal nanocrystals - A method for making colloidal nanocrystals includes the following steps: dissolving a nanocrystal powder in an organic solvent, and achieving a solution A of a concentration of 1-30 mg/ml; dissolving a surfactant in water, and achieving a solution B of a concentration of 0.002-0.05 mmol/ml; mixing the solution A and the solution B in a volume ratio of 1: (5-30), and achieving a mixture; stirring and emulsifying the mixture, until an emulsion C is achieved; removing the organic solvent from the emulsion C, and achieving a deposit; then washing the deposit with deionized water, and achieving colloidal nanocrystals. The present method for making colloidal nanocrystals is economical and timesaving, and has a low toxicity associated therewith. Thus, the method is suitable for industrial mass production. The colloidal nanocrystals made by the present method have a readily controllable size, a narrow size distribution, and good configuration. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20100278721 | Method for making mesoporous material - A method for making the mesoporous material includes the following steps: dissolving a nanocrystal powder in an organic solvent, and achieving a solution A with concentration of 1-30 mg/ml; dissolving a surfactant in water, and achieving a solution B with an approximate concentration of 0.002-0.05 mol/ml; mixing the solution A and the solution B in a volume ratio of 1: (5-30), and achieving a mixture; stirring and emulsifying the mixture, until an emulsion C is achieved; removing the organic solvent from the emulsion C, and achieving a deposit; washing the deposit with deionized water, and achieving a colloid; and drying and calcining the colloid, and eventually achieving a mesoporous material. The mesoporous material has a large specific surface area, a high porosity, and a narrow diameter distribution. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20120075244 | TOUCH SCREEN AND ADDRESSING METHOD THEREOF - The disclosed technology provides a touch screen, comprising a touch screen body, comprising a plurality of first channels extending in first direction and a plurality of second channels extending in second direction; and an interface device provided with a plurality of I/O ports, wherein at least two first channels of the touch screen body spaced apart with first predetermined distance are connected electrically to a parallel connection node so as to form a first channel group, and the parallel connection node is connected electrically to one I/O port, and wherein the first predetermined distance is a predetermined length of a touching region in the first direction. An addressing method for the touch screen is also provided. | 03-29-2012 |
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| 20110126747 | WIND TURBINE INSTALLATION VESSEL AND A GRAVITY CENTER ADJUSTMENT DEVICE THEREOF - The present invention discloses a gravity center adjustment device for a wind turbine installation vessel, with the gravity center adjustment device ( | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110126748 | WIND TURBINE HOLDING AND LIFTING SYSTEM AND MOVABLE OPERATING PLATFORM ABOVE WATER - The present invention which relates to the field of offshore wind turbine installation technology, discloses a wind turbine holding and lifting system for a movable operating platform above water. The wind turbine holding and lifting system comprises a first standing column, a second standing column, a beam lifting device, no less than one beam and enclasping means for holding the wind turbine tower; the first standing column and the second standing column are juxtaposed, and the opposed faces of the first and second standing columns are provided with guiding grooves for sliding the beams; the enclasping means is arranged on the beam, and the two ends of the beam are interfitted within the guiding grooves of the first and second standing columns; the beam lifting device is fixed to the first or second standing column, and the lifting end of the beam lifting device is connected to the beam. The wind turbine holding and lifting system with such a structure can fix the assembled wind turbine in the installation state and the wind turbine can be lifted and lowered. The present invention further discloses a movable operating platform above water. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110129329 | WIND TURBINE INSTALLATION VESSEL AND A GRAVITY CENTER ADJUSTMENT DEVICE THEREOF - The present invention discloses a gravity center adjustment device ( | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110129334 | WIND TURBINE HOLDING AND LIFTING SYSTEM AND MOVABLE OPERATING PLATFORM ABOVE WATER - The present invention which relates to the field of offshore wind turbine installation technology, discloses a wind turbine holding and lifting system for a movable operating platform above water. The wind turbine holding and lifting system comprises a door-type installation frame, a wind turbine lifting device and enclasping means for clamping the wind turbine tower, the door-type installation frame including a first leg, a second leg and no less than one beam fixed between the first and second legs, the wind turbine lifting device being attached to the door-type installation frame with its lifting end connected to the wind turbine tower. The wind turbine holding and lifting system with such a structure is available for a movable operating platform above water, the enclasping means and the wind turbine lifting device of the wind turbine holding and lifting system being capable of completely constraining the wind turbine such that the assembled wind turbine can be fixed in a wind turbine installation state. The present invention further discloses a movable operating platform above water. | 06-02-2011 |
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| 20100042403 | CONTEXT BASED ONLINE ADVERTISING - A software and/or hardware facility for inferring user context and delivering advertisements, such as coupons, using natural language and/or sentiment analysis is disclosed. The facility may infer context information based on a user's emotional state, attitude, needs, or intent from the user's interaction with or through a mobile device. The facility may then determine whether it is appropriate to deliver an advertisement to the user and select an advertisement for delivery. The facility may also determine an appropriate expiration time and/or discount amount for the advertisement. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100042421 | CONTEXT BASED ADVERTISEMENT BIDDING MECHANISM - A software and/or hardware facility for managing online advertisement bidding processes is described. The facility selects advertisements for delivery to mobile device users based on advertiser bids. The advertisers may bid for presentation of their advertisements to users having certain spatio-temporal, user segment, and/or other characteristics. The facility may also select advertisements for delivery based on an estimated likelihood of a mobile device user's positive response to the advertisement. Advertiser and user feedback may also be employed to refine the process of selecting advertisements for delivery. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100042469 | MOBILE DEVICE ENHANCED SHOPPING EXPERIENCE - A software and/or hardware facility for providing a mobile device enhanced shopping experience is disclosed. The facility may determine a user characteristic of a mobile device user and deliver information in response to a product query. The information may include product information, competitive pricing information, competitive product information, related product information, a product advertisement, and/or the like. Also, the product query may be based on barcode information, a barcode image, product information, a product image, and/or the like. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100042470 | CONTEXT BASED ADVERTISEMENT FILTRATION - A software and/or hardware facility for filtering advertisements based on variable contexts is described. The facility may ascertain whether incoming messages are advertisements and filter messages containing advertisements. Advertisements may be filtered for deletion, storage, and/or user alerts with or without storage. The user may be alerted to incoming advertisements either upon receipt or at a later time. Filtering and notification may be based on real-time context (e.g., mood, location, time, environment, device status, etc.). In addition, filtering may also be based on message context and other contexts. User feedback may also be employed to refine filtering algorithms. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100042471 | DETERMINATION OF ADVERTISEMENT REFERRER INCENTIVES AND DISINCENTIVES - A software and/or hardware facility for managing the referral of electronic advertisements is described. The facility may be configured to provide advertisements, including coupons, to a referrer and to enable the referrer to forward the advertisements to recipients. The facility also tracks recipient responses to the forwarded advertisements (e.g., redemption of coupons, interactions with the advertisement, rejections of advertisements, etc.). The facility may also be configured to provide incentives and/or disincentives to referrers based on recipient responses to advertisements. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100088390 | DATA SHARING PROXY FOR MOBILE DEVICES - Described is a technology that uses a web service as a proxy for transferring data between mobile communications devices. A short range communication link is established between a source device and a destination device. The source device sends a content identifier over the short range communication link to the destination device, that the destination devices uses to access the content, including when the short range communication link no longer exists. Also described is security for the content via authentication data (e.g., credentials) and policy associated with the content to control its access. The source device may select the destination device or may broadcast the content identifier to any number of destination devices within range. | 04-08-2010 |
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| 20090187464 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR END-TO-END RETAIL STORE SITE OPTIMIZATION - A method and apparatus for end-to-end retail store one-stop site configuration integrates multiple data sources, identifying key customers, forecasting merchandise demand. Site configuration is formulated as a mathematical optimization problem with both in-store and external data as input to the problem whose solution provides proper suggestions for retail store transformation. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090281869 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATED MULTIPLE FACTORS INTO A UNIFIED OPTIMIZATION MODEL FOR RETAIL NETWORK CONFIGURATION - A method and system for integrating multiple factors into a unified optimization model for retail network configuration, in one aspect, obtains input data for modeling store configuration. The input data may include demand of each merchandise category from each customer segment in each facility, geographic distribution of stores in an area, current revenue of stores, and physical cost of reconfiguring stores. A trade area is generated as a function of store location, store format, and store capacity. The method and system also generates trade area demand summation representing predicted total demand of all stores for all merchandise categories for all customer segments in the trade area, as a function of store location, store format, store capacity, merchandise category, and customer segment associated with the trade area. An objective function is constructed as a function of said trade area demand summation, current revenue of stores, and physical cost of reconfiguring stores. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20110040601 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CUSTOMER SEGMENTATION USING ADAPTIVE SPECTRAL CLUSTERING - A method and system for customer segmentation using adaptive spectral clustering may include determining initial segmentation labels, determining new customer behavior data, formulating a single objective minimization function that integrates the initial segmentation labels with the new customer behavior data, and determining best fit to both the initial segmentation labels and the new customer behavior data simultaneously by minimizing the single objective minimization function. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110145237 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MERCHANDISE HIERARCHY REFINEMENT BY INCORPORATION OF PRODUCT CORRELATION - System, method and computer program product for adjusting a representation of a merchandise hierarchy associated with an entity such as a retailer or wholesaler of products. Product correlation information discovered in that entity's customers' shopping records are obtained and incorporated into an existing merchandise hierarchy with a constraint on the consistency with the existing hierarchy. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20120016716 | JOINT MULTI-CHANNEL CONFIGURATION OPTIMIZATION FOR RETAIL INDUSTRY - A data integration module is operable to integrate a plurality of data sources, a customer preference module builds a model representing preference to different channels in merchandise category for each customer segment. A customer satisfaction module creates a model representing customer satisfaction metrics. A joint multi-channel optimization module is operable to use an optimization model that utilizes the customer preference model and the customer satisfaction model and maximize retailer's profit and customer satisfaction. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120046991 | COMPETING SIMULATOR IN MULTI-CHANNEL RETAILING ENVIRONMENT AMONG MULTIPLE RETAILERS - A system, method and computer program product for providing the ability for retailers to devise a current channel strategy (e.g., adaptive price setting) that considers competitors in a dynamic competing environment, and that enables computing a competitive advantage of a channel. To estimate a price for selling a product j in a commerce channel comprises: a) receiving, at a processor device, real market data including sales and price history data of a product j sold by one or more retailers over one or alternate sales channels t; generating, by the processor device, a competitive advantage parameter value based on the sales and price history data; and, computing, utilizing the competitive advantage parameter value, an optimum price for a particular product to be marketed in one of the one or alternate sales channel. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120084118 | SALES PREDICATION FOR A NEW STORE BASED ON ON-SITE MARKET SURVEY DATA AND HIGH RESOLUTION GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION - A method for predicting sales for a new store in a certain geographical area is disclosed, the method comprising geographic and non-geographic information and customer segmentation in the area to estimate sales and optionally the impact on existing competitor stores. | 04-05-2012 |
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| 20090279524 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING CONTROL SIGNALING OVERHEAD IN HYBRID WIRELESS NETWORK - Embodiments of the present invention include a method and apparatus for reducing control signaling overhead in a hybrid wireless network. The method comprises receiving a wireless frame in the hybrid wireless network at a first terminal, and determining whether the received wireless frame is a control frame for a wireless channel reservation; if the received wireless frame is a control frame for the wireless channel reservation, reading by the first terminal a value of Duration field in control frame, and updating a timer for a channel reservation period in the first terminal with the value of Duration field, instead of updating network allocation vector of the first terminal; determining whether the remaining time of the timer for the channel reservation period is longer than the time required for transmitting the data frame or not before transmitting a data frame by the first terminal; and transmitting the data frame directly by the first terminal without transmission of a control frame for the wireless channel reservation if the remaining time is longer than the time required for transmitting the data frame. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090290627 | CODE EVALUATOR, CODE EVALUATION METHOD, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION AND MOBILE STATION - The present invention relates to a code evaluation method comprising the steps of computing an auto-correlation function from a generated code; computing an evaluation reference value for determining quality of the generated code based on the auto-correlation function and a weighting factor determined depending on the evaluation reference value; and determining the quality of the generated code based on the evaluation reference value. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20100074117 | METHOD FOR ACCESSING HYBRID NETWORK, AND GATEWAY APPARATUS, WIRELESS TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THEREOF - A method for accessing a hybrid network including a wide area network and a distributed network, a gateway apparatus, a wireless terminal and a gateway communication system are disclosed for reducing the power consumption of the wireless terminal which is an access gateway. The method comprises: sensing by a gateway apparatus a relay request slot on a downlink common control channel of the wide area network; transmitting by a wireless terminal a relay request signal requesting to relay a data packet to be transmitted, in the relay request slot on the downlink common control channel; and if the relay request signal from the wireless terminal is sensed in the relay request slot, establishing by the gateway apparatus a connection with the wireless terminal in a distributed network environment. As such, the gateway apparatus accesses the wireless distributed network only when the surrounding wireless terminals require data relay, without sensing signals on both networks simultaneously, in order to reduce the power consumption. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100113060 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF SPECTRUM UTILIZATION IN A WIRELESS CELLULAR ENVIRONMENT - The present invention discloses a method of spectrum utilization in a wireless cellular environment with coverage of at least two wireless networks and a related apparatus. The method includes: determining a RSRP threshold; detecting, by a small-cell base station, RSRPs of at least one large-cell base station; and comparing the highest one of the detected RSRPs with the determined RSRP threshold, adopting a separate spectrum mode if the highest one of the detected RSRPs exceeds the determined RSRP threshold, and otherwise, adopting a shared spectrum mode. According to the method and apparatus of the present invention, a separate spectrum mode is adopted when the small-cell base station is relatively close to the large-cell base station to decrease interferences between the small-cell base station and large-cell base station and to increase spectrum usage efficiency in the wireless cellular environment with coverage of at least two wireless networks, however, a shared spectrum mode is adopted when the small-cell base station is relatively far from to the large-cell base station to realize sharing spectrum and increase spectrum usage efficiency in the wireless cellular environment with coverage of at least two wireless networks. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100315968 | CODING METHOD, USER EQUIPMENT AND SYSTEM BASED ON MEASURING QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE OF USER - This invention provides a coding method, user equipment and system based on measuring Quality of Experience (QoE) of a user. The method includes: measuring, at destination user equipment, a QoE value; comparing the measured QoE value with a QoE threshold; adjusting at least one of a source coding rate and a channel coding mode according to a result of the comparison; and coding according to the adjusted source coding rate and/or channel coding mode; or further performing wireless resource allocation according to the adjusted coding scheme. Such method, user equipment and system of this invention adjust the coding technique according to the QoE, thus making the wireless resource used reasonably. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100317363 | METHOD AND DEVICE OF INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION IN WIRELESS CELLULAR NETWORK - A method of interference suppression in a wireless cellular network includes notifying a first base station that there is a second User Equipment (UE) that currently suffers downlink interferences from the first base station, when an second UE in an active state suffers the downlink interferences from the first base station; and reallocating, by the first base station, spectrum resources for a first UE communicating with the first base station. A first base station, a second UE and a second base station for implementing the above method of interference suppression are also provided. When the second UE in the active state suffers the downlink interferences from an adjacent first base station, the first base station can adjust the spectrum resources occupied by the first UE through resource scheduling, so as to reduce the downlink interferences on the second UE in the active state, thus to reduce the influence on the communication between the second UE and the second base station. | 12-16-2010 |
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| 20080310531 | ROBUST CHANNEL ESTIMATION IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - An apparatus for archiving robust channel estimation in a communication system includes a training sequence generator to generate a training sequence. A formatter inserts the training sequence to a frame. A transmitting module is employed to transmit the frame. The training sequence generator further includes a symbol generator to generate a plurality of training symbols satisfying a predetermined constraint such that the training symbols are insensitive to synchronization error and a training sequence forming unit that forms the training sequence from the training symbols generated by the training symbol generator. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090037163 | Fast and Flexible Communication System Simulation - A simulation system for a communication system includes a user interface to receive user definition and system configuration parameters of a simulation configuration file that includes a plurality of data structures representing various functional modules of the simulated communication system. A model library is provided to store different implementation models corresponding to different communication standards for each of the functional modules. A parsing module accesses the model library according to the user definition and system configuration parameters to obtain the appropriate implementation model for each of the functional modules, and generates a simulated system program based on the selected implementation models such that the simulated system program is reconfigurable to different implementations and communication standards. A simulation engine runs the simulated system program to simulate the simulated communication system. A simulated system program generation system is also described. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090190705 | System And Method For In-Phase/Quadrature-Phase (I/Q) Time Delay Measurement And Compensation - A system for determining a time delay between an in-phase signal component and a quadrature-phase signal component includes an in-phase signal start time determination module coupled to an in-phase delay module, the in-phase signal start time determination module and the in-phase delay module configured to receive an in-phase signal component of a received signal. The in-phase signal start time determination module is configured to receive a reference signal. The system also includes a quadrature-phase signal start time determination module coupled to a quadrature-phase delay module, the quadrature-phase signal start time determination module and the quadrature-phase delay module configured to receive a quadrature-phase signal component of a received signal. The quadrature-phase signal start time determination module is configured to receive a reference signal, wherein the in-phase delay module is configured to develop an in-phase delay signal and the quadrature-phase delay module is configured to develop a quadrature-phase delay signal. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090196334 | System and Method for In-Phase/Quadrature-Phase (I/Q) Mismatch Measurement and Compensation - A system for determining in-phase and quadrature-phase mismatch in a multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) communication architecture includes at least one transmitter coupled to at least one receiver and an in-phase (I) signal, quadrature-phase (Q) signal mismatch element configured to receive I and Q signal components over at least one communication channel, the I/Q signal mismatch element also configured to provide a signal representing gain imbalance, a signal representing quadrature error and a signal representing I/Q offset. | 08-06-2009 |
