Abstract:
A wireless device may determine the level of interference mitigation appropriate for the application and dynamically select a combination of interference cancellation components that satisfies that level. The combination of interference cancellation components may include components that consume power (e.g., active components) and components that do not consume power (e.g., passive components). The interference cancellation components may be used at the transmitter and/or the receiver. In some cases, the wireless device may also determine how much power is acceptable to expend on the interference mitigation. In such scenarios, the selection of the interference cancellation components may be such that the aggregated power consumption is less than the power expenditure limit.
Abstract:
Methods in a multiple-cell cellular network that implements iterative coordinated beamforming (I-CBF) algorithms with limited cooperation from adjacent nodes (base stations and/or mobile stations) may jointly determine transmit beamforming vectors and receive combining vectors to increase sum throughput. The transmit beamforming vectors and receive combining vectors can be determined based on a performance metric, such as by maximizing SINR (signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio) for each mobile station in the network, maximizing SLNR (signal-to-leakage-and-noise ratio) for each base station in the network, or minimizing SMSE (sum mean square error). The algorithms may be performed to update vectors synchronously. In other cases, the algorithms may be performed to update vectors asynchronously.
Abstract:
A method of performing interference cancellation (IC) in a wireless communication device having a receiver comprising at least a primary receiver chain and a diversity receiver chain includes determining an interference level of a transmitted signal on the receiver; determining whether the interference level is within a predetermined range; selecting a first mode of operation if the interference level is within a predetermined range; and selecting a second mode of operation if the interference level is not within the predetermined range. The first mode includes receiving, at the primary receiver chain, a first signal corresponding to the transmitted signal; receiving, at the diversity receiver chain, a second signal corresponding to the transmitted signal for providing to an IC circuit; generating, at the IC circuit, an output signal based on the second signal; and generating a cancellation signal based on the output signal and the first signal.
Abstract:
A method of performing interference cancellation (IC) in a wireless communication device having a receiver comprising at least a primary receiver chain and a diversity receiver chain includes determining an interference level of a transmitted signal on the receiver; determining whether the interference level is within a predetermined range; selecting a first mode of operation if the interference level is within a predetermined range; and selecting a second mode of operation if the interference level is not within the predetermined range. The first mode includes receiving, at the primary receiver chain, a first signal corresponding to the transmitted signal; receiving, at the diversity receiver chain, a second signal corresponding to the transmitted signal for providing to an IC circuit; generating, at the IC circuit, an output signal based on the second signal; and generating a cancellation signal based on the output signal and the first signal.
Abstract:
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to interference cancellation. A method for performing interference cancellation in a wireless communications device having a transmitter, a receiver, a coefficient controller, an analog interference cancellation (AIC) circuit and a receive local oscillator (LO) includes utilizing a receive local oscillator (LO) to generate a transmit pilot; injecting the transmit pilot into a transmit chain for transmission; utilizing a receiver to receive a signal, wherein the signal includes the transmit pilot and an interference signal; and determining a set of coefficients for the interference cancellation based on an output signal from the receiver.
Abstract:
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to apparatuses and methods that can improve Bluetooth (BT) and Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) coexistence at a BT/WLAN co-located wireless communication device. Various coexistence schemes are provided such as dynamic WLAN fragmentation based on high priority BT traffic by utilizing various techniques and signaling schemes. In some aspects of the disclosure, narrow-band active interference cancellation may be combined with dynamic WLAN fragmentation to further improve BT/WLAN coexistence performance.
Abstract:
A device may use enhanced power amplifier (PA) linearization techniques such as adaptive feed-forward (FF) linearization using adaptive filters. In one example, an adaptive feed-forward linearizer may isolate a distortion signal based at least in part on the signals input to and output from a PA in a transmission path. The distortion signal may be used to cancel distortion at the output of the PA to produce an improved output signal. A first adaptive circuit may be used to produce the distortion signal and a second adaptive circuit may be used to produce an error cancellation signal based at least in part on the distortion signal. The error cancellation signal may be amplified and re-introduced to the transmission path to produce the improved output signal. Semi-adaptive circuits may be used in place of the adaptive circuits, or a hybrid approach may be used.
Abstract:
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to apparatuses and methods that can improve Bluetooth (BT) and Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) coexistence at a BT/WLAN co-located wireless communication device. Various coexistence schemes are provided such as dynamic WLAN fragmentation based on high priority BT traffic by utilizing various techniques and signaling schemes. In some aspects of the disclosure, narrow-band active interference cancellation may be combined with dynamic WLAN fragmentation to further improve BT/WLAN coexistence performance.
Abstract:
A multiple input and multiple output device includes a first input switch, a second input switch, a first set of analog interference cancellation (AIC) circuits, and a second set of AIC circuits. The first input switch is configured to select one of a first transmit input of first transmit inputs or a first transmit input of second transmit inputs. The second input switch is configured to select one of a second transmit input of the first transmit inputs or a second transmit input of the second transmit inputs. The first set of AIC circuits and the second set of AIC circuits are coupled to the first input switch and to the second input switch. The first set of AIC circuits is configured to output a first cancellation signal. The second set of AIC circuits is configured to output a second cancellation signal.
Abstract:
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to interference cancellation and wireless communication. A method of performing analog interference cancellation in a wireless communications device having a transmitter and a receiver includes receiving a reference signal representative of an interfering signal transmitted by the transmitter, selecting a first target interference type from one of a plurality of interference types affecting a an RF signal received by the receiver, configuring a first filter of an interference cancellation circuit using a coefficient computed based on the first target interference type, and cancelling interference in the RF signal using an output of the first filter. Coefficient computation may be performed in a switched manner between analog and digital domain, simultaneously in multiple domains, or in a cascaded manner that provides digital interference cancellation.