Abstract:
The invention relates to a method of coding and of decoding a digital data stream coded by spatio-temporal combinations, in multiple transmission and reception. On transmission, the initial stream (IDS) is subjected to an outer coding (A), a blockwise interleaving (B), a demultiplexing (C) over a plurality of pathways, to an inner coding nullm on each pathway, then transmitted on a plurality (null) of distinct antennas forming a space-diversity array. On reception, the coded symbol streams transmitted are observed (F) by means of a number null of reception antennas which is independent of the number of transmission antennas, the observed coded symbol streams 1 { MSDS r } r = 1 r = null are subjected to a process of turbo-detection by equalization and joint decoding (G), deinterleaving (H), outer decoding (I), interleaving (J), so as to generate an a priori information item (api) on the coded bits, which is reinjected (K) into the turbo-detection process. Application to the implementation of a universal radiofrequency interface, in particular for mobile radio telephony.
Abstract:
A method for calculating soft outputs of a detector used in a receiver that is part of a communication system having either memory introducing modulators or memoryless modulators. The output of a soft output detector, also known as reliability information, provides a probability that a certain symbol was transmitted by a transmitter of the communication system or the probability that a bit within a transmitted symbol was transmitted by a transmitter.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a receiver for high-speed numerical transmissions through Rayleigh channels noisy and dispersive in time and frequency in which an accurate estimate of the channel response is combined in an optimal manner with the received data sequence detection procedure. Specifically the a posteriori probability of the Markov chain of the states of the channel with intersymbolic interference are calculated recursively from the data received and from the updated channel estimate. The a posteriori probabilities calculated are used in turn by a Kalman estimator to record the channel variations. On the basis of the sequence of the calculated a posteriori probabilities the detection is then calculated symbol by symbol with the highest a posteriori probability having a small decision delay.
Abstract:
A limited search variant of the fixed delay tree search detector is used to recover digital signals corrupted with intersymbol interference and additive noise. The limited search algorithm uses a variant of an equalizer decision device--a simple slicer--to reduce the number of paths that are considered by the tree search detector from M.sup.D+1 to either D+1 or 2.sup.D+1 paths, thereby significantly reducing the complexity of the tree-search detector. This limited search detector enjoys negligible loss in performance, compared with that of a full fixed delay tree search.
Abstract:
A method, an apparatus and a communication system of evaluating a nonlinear compensation performance. The method for evaluating a nonlinear compensation performance comprises: evaluating a nonlinear compensation performance by using a probability-maintained notch signal as a test signal; the probability-maintained notch signal having a probability density function (PDF) that is maintained unchanged after notching as compared with before notching.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a relay method including: receiving, as input, respective reception signals by two receive antennas, the reception signals each including a reception signal resulting from multiplexing respective transmission signals transmitted by two transmission antennas in a first frequency band; performing frequency conversion on the reception signal received by one of the receive antennas so as to obtain a signal of a third frequency band; and performing frequency multiplexing on the signal having the third frequency band and the reception signal received by the other of the receive antennas.
Abstract:
A transceiving system using a joined modulation alphabet A having a size M the symbols of which are distributed on a plurality N of orthogonal dimensions, the symbols carried by a dimension belonging to a linear sub-alphabet An having a size P, with M=NP. The transmitter performs a turbocoding of a block of information bits, the code words provided by the turbocoder being mapped to symbols of the joined modulation alphabet before modulating the signal to be transmitted. The receiver performs turbodecoding from the projection of the symbols received on the orthogonal dimensions of the alphabet.
Abstract:
Coding techniques for a (e.g., OFDM) communication system capable of transmitting data on a number of “transmission channels” at different information bit rates based on the channels' achieved SNR. A base code is used in combination with common or variable puncturing to achieve different coding rates required by the transmission channels. The data (i.e., information bits) for a data transmission is encoded with the base code, and the coded bits for each channel (or group of channels with the similar transmission capabilities) are punctured to achieve the required coding rate. The coded bits may be interleaved (e.g., to combat fading and remove correlation between coded bits in each modulation symbol) prior to puncturing. The unpunctured coded bits are grouped into non-binary symbols and mapped to modulation symbols (e.g., using Gray mapping). The modulation symbol may be “pre-conditioned” and prior to transmission.
Abstract:
All data symbols used in data transmission of a modulated signal are precoded by hopping between precoding matrices so that the precoding matrix used to precode each data symbol and the precoding matrices used to precode data symbols that are adjacent to the data symbol in the frequency domain and the time domain all differ. A modulated signal with such data symbols arranged therein is transmitted.
Abstract:
Multiple symbol noncoherent soft output detectors in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In a number of embodiments, the multiple symbol noncoherent soft output detector uses soft metrics based on the Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) of each symbol to provide information concerning the reliability of each detected symbol. One embodiment of the invention includes a receiver configured to receive and sample a phase modulated input signal, and a multiple symbol noncoherent soft output detector configured to receive the sampled input signal and to generate a soft metric indicative of the reliability of a detected symbol based upon observations over multiple symbols.