公开(公告)号：US10404515B2

公开(公告)日：2019-09-03

申请号：US15722591

申请日：2017-10-02

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Shiquan Wu ,  Wen Tong ,  Leo Strawczynski

IPC: H04W4/00 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04B7/0417 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04L1/06 ,  H04B7/0413 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: An adaptable orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing system (OFDM) that uses a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) to having OFDM signals transmitted either in accordance with time diversity to reducing signal fading or in accordance with spatial diversity to increase the data rate. Sub-carriers are classified for spatial diversity transmission or for time diversity transmission based on the result of a comparison between threshold values and at least one of three criteria. The criteria includes a calculation of a smallest eigen value of a frequency channel response matrix and a smallest element of a diagonal of the matrix and a ratio of the largest and smallest eigen values of the matrix.

公开(公告)号：US10271310B2

公开(公告)日：2019-04-23

申请号：US14494810

申请日：2014-09-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hang Zhang ,  Jianglei Ma ,  Ming Jia ,  Mo-Han Fong ,  Peiying Zhu ,  Wen Tong

IPC: H04W72/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L12/18 ,  H04W4/08 ,  H04W48/10 ,  H04B7/0413 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04L29/12 ,  H04W74/00 ,  H04L5/02

Abstract: A method and system for allocating shareable wireless transmission resources. A resource pool is established. The resource pool is divided into a plurality of physical layer allocation units usable for wirelessly transmitting control information and traffic data. The allocation units are assigned at the media access control layer for the wireless transmission of the control information and traffic data. The system and method of the present invention also allows mobile stations to be dynamically grouped into multicast groupings to reduce system overhead resource requirements.

公开(公告)号：US10212017B2

公开(公告)日：2019-02-19

申请号：US15823072

申请日：2017-11-27

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Jianglei Ma ,  Hang Zhang ,  Wen Tong ,  Ming Jia ,  Peiying Zhu ,  Mo-Han Fong

IPC: H04L27/26 ,  H04B7/02 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W24/02 ,  H04B7/0452 ,  H04L7/04

Abstract: The present invention provides a preamble that is inserted into an OFDMA frame and has a common sequence for all the base stations participating in a transmission. The subscriber station performs fine synchronization using the common sequence on the common preamble, and the resulting peaks will provide the locations of candidate base stations. The base station specific search is then performed in the vicinities of those peaks by using base station specific pseudo-noise sequences. With this two stage cell search, the searching window is drastically reduced. The preamble is matched to known values by a respective receiver to decode the signals and permit multiple signals to be transferred from the transmitter to the receiver. The preamble may comprise two parts, Preamble-1 and Preamble-2, which may be used in different systems, including multioutput, multi-input (MIMO) systems.

公开(公告)号：US10200978B2

公开(公告)日：2019-02-05

申请号：US15657509

申请日：2017-07-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Wen Tong ,  Leo L. Strawczynski ,  Shalini Periyalwar ,  Claude Royer

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04W28/04

Abstract: A system and method for transmitting high speed data on fixed rate and for variable rate channels. The system and method provides the flexibility of adjusting the data rate, the coding rate, and the nature of individual retransmissions. Further, the system and method supports partial soft combining of retransmitted data with previously transmitted data, supports parity bit selection for successive retransmissions, and supports various combinations of data rate variations, coding rate variations, and partial data transmissions.

公开(公告)号：US20190028160A1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-24

申请号：US16049080

申请日：2018-07-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Wen Tong ,  Hosein Nikopour ,  Amir Khandani ,  Hua Xu ,  Ming Jia ,  Peiying Zhu ,  Dong-sheng Yu

IPC: H04B7/0456 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04B7/0417 ,  H04B7/06

CPC classification number: H04B7/0478 ,  H04B7/0417 ,  H04B7/0456 ,  H04B7/0634 ,  H04B7/0639 ,  H04L69/04 ,  H04L69/14

Abstract: A codebook C is provided in a MIMO transmitter as well as a MIMO receiver. The codebook C will include M codewords ci, where i is a unique codeword index for each codeword ci. Each codeword defines weighting factors to apply to the MIMO signals, and may correspond to channel matrices or vectors to apply to the MIMO signals prior to transmission from the respective antennas of the MIMO transmitter. The present invention creates codeword subsets Si for each codeword ci of the codebook C. Each codeword subset Si defines L codewords cj, which are selected from all the codewords ci in the codebook C. The codewords cj in a codeword subset Si are the L codewords in the entire codebook that best correlate with the corresponding codeword ci.

公开(公告)号：US20180367357A1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-20

申请号：US16110205

申请日：2018-08-23

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jianglei Ma ,  Ming Jia ,  Wen Tong ,  Peiying Zhu ,  Hang Zhang ,  Hua Xu ,  Dongsheng Yu

IPC: H04L27/26 ,  H04L25/02 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04B7/08

CPC classification number: H04L27/2611 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04B7/08 ,  H04L5/0007 ,  H04L5/0023 ,  H04L25/0226 ,  H04L25/0232 ,  H04L27/2626 ,  H04L27/2647

Abstract: A method and apparatus for improving channel estimation within an OFDM communication system. Channel estimation in OFDM is usually performed with the aid of pilot symbols. The pilot symbols are typically spaced in time and frequency. The set of frequencies and times at which pilot symbols are inserted is referred to as a pilot pattern. In some cases, the pilot pattern is a diagonal-shaped lattice, either regular or irregular. The method first interpolates in the direction of larger coherence (time or frequency). Using these measurements, the density of pilot symbols in the direction of faster change will be increased thereby improving channel estimation without increasing overhead. As such, the results of the first interpolating step can then be used to assist the interpolation in the dimension of smaller coherence (time or frequency).

公开(公告)号：US20180167247A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-14

申请号：US15891750

申请日：2018-02-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jianglei Ma ,  Ming Jia ,  Wen Tong ,  Peiying Zhu ,  Hang Zhang ,  Hua Xu ,  Dongsheng Yu

IPC: H04L27/26 ,  H04L25/02 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04B7/08

CPC classification number: H04L27/2611 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04B7/08 ,  H04L5/0007 ,  H04L5/0023 ,  H04L25/0226 ,  H04L25/0232 ,  H04L27/2626 ,  H04L27/2647

Abstract: A method and apparatus for improving channel estimation within an OFDM communication system. Channel estimation in OFDM is usually performed with the aid of pilot symbols. The pilot symbols are typically spaced in time and frequency. The set of frequencies and times at which pilot symbols are inserted is referred to as a pilot pattern. In some cases, the pilot pattern is a diagonal-shaped lattice, either regular or irregular. The method first interpolates in the direction of larger coherence (time or frequency). Using these measurements, the density of pilot symbols in the direction of faster change will be increased thereby improving channel estimation without increasing overhead. As such, the results of the first interpolating step can then be used to assist the interpolation in the dimension of smaller coherence (time or frequency).

公开(公告)号：US20180145731A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-24

申请号：US15852585

申请日：2017-12-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Wen Tong ,  Hosein Nikopour ,  Amir Khandani ,  Hua Xu ,  Ming Jia ,  Peiying Zhu ,  Dong-sheng Yu

IPC: H04B7/04 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04B7/0456 ,  H04B7/0417

CPC classification number: H04B7/0478 ,  H04B7/0417 ,  H04B7/0456 ,  H04B7/0634 ,  H04B7/0639 ,  H04L69/04 ,  H04L69/14

Abstract: A codebook C is provided in a MIMO transmitter as well as a MIMO receiver. The codebook C will include M codewords ci, where i is a unique codeword index for each codeword ci. Each codeword defines weighting factors to apply to the MIMO signals, and may correspond to channel matrices or vectors to apply to the MIMO signals prior to transmission from the respective antennas of the MIMO transmitter. The present invention creates codeword subsets Si for each codeword ci of the codebook C. Each codeword subset Si defines L codewords cj, which are selected from all the codewords ci in the codebook C. The codewords cj in a codeword subset Si are the L codewords in the entire codebook that best correlate with the corresponding codeword ci.

公开(公告)号：US09973365B2

公开(公告)日：2018-05-15

申请号：US15195083

申请日：2016-06-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jianglei Ma ,  Wen Tong ,  Ming Jia ,  Hua Xu ,  Peiying Zhu ,  Hang Zhang

IPC: H04L27/26 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04L5/00

CPC classification number: H04L27/263 ,  H04L1/0003 ,  H04L1/0009 ,  H04L5/0007 ,  H04L5/0023 ,  H04L5/0044 ,  H04L5/0096 ,  H04L27/2613 ,  H04L27/2628 ,  H04L27/2634 ,  H04L27/2646

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided that enable an OFDM transmitter to be used for transmitting conventional OFDM or a form of transformed OFDM. A technique is provided for transforming a coded and modulated sequence of samples prior to an IFFT that enables the transformed sequence of samples to be transmitted using conventional OFDM or transformed OFDM. The selection of a transform function for transforming the coded and modulated sequence of samples may be based on optimizing the transform function for particular operating conditions between the transmitter and receiver. In some embodiments of the invention OFDM and time transformed OFDM are multiplexed in time and/or frequency in a transmission frame. In some embodiments of the invention a pilot pattern is provided in which the pilot are sent using OFDM and data is sent using OFDM and/or transformed OFDM.

公开(公告)号：US20180092098A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-29

申请号：US15823120

申请日：2017-11-27

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Hang ZHANG ,  Mo-Han Fong ,  Peiying Zhu ,  Wen Tong ,  Jianglei Ma

IPC: H04W72/04

CPC classification number: H04W72/0453 ,  H04L5/0058 ,  H04L5/0091 ,  H04L5/0092 ,  H04L27/2601 ,  H04W28/06 ,  H04W72/042

Abstract: A channel descriptor management message is transmitted on a broadcast connection to a mobile terminal. The channel descriptor management message provides a format for a frame. The frame includes a resource space. The channel descriptor management message defines a plurality of channels within the resource space and allocates at least one of the channels to a plurality of users. Subsequent resource allocation messages may refer to a location within a channel rather than a location within the entire resource space.