Abstract:
The system and method of utilizing frequency waterfilling and implicit coordination to mitigate signal jamming in Link 16 systems. The system and method of utilizing frequency waterfilling for Link 16 includes updates to both software and firmware. The frequency waterfilling approach for Link 16 modifies the process by which data bits are allocated to hops based on an assessment of hops affected by jamming, thus avoiding portions of the spectrum occupied by a jammer.
Abstract:
The estimation and mitigation of swept-tone interferers includes receiving a composite signal comprising a signal of interest and a swept-tone interferer over an observation bandwidth or a hop bandwidth in a frequency-hopping system. The estimation of the interfering signal may be based on modeling the interferer as a magnitude periodic signal comprising non-overlapping, contiguous epochs, where each epoch may comprise a common pulse shape and a distinct phase rotation. The modeling may be based over the observation bandwidth, the hop bandwidth, or after combining the signal over all the frequency hop bandwidths. The period of the magnitude-periodic signal may be initially determined, and the common pulse shape and each of the distinct phase rotations may then be estimated. These estimates may be used to reconstruct an estimate of the swept-tone interferer, which may be subtracted from the composite signal to generate an interference-mitigated signal of interest.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment is a method in a hub of a first wireless body area network (WBAN). The first WBAN includes the hub and at least one sensor node. The hub is configured to wirelessly communicate with the at least one sensor node on a first frequency channel and the method comprises: receiving a retention index of a second WBAN operating on the first frequency channel, wherein a retention index is a measure of the operational characteristics of the respective WBAN; comparing the retention index of the second WBAN with a retention index of the first WBAN; and changing the wireless communication behaviour of the first WBAN if the retention index of the first WBAN is lower than the retention index of the second WBAN.
Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a method in a base station for resource configuration for Device-to-Device (D2D) Scheduling Assignment (SA) and/or D2D data transmissions for a User Equipment (UE) and a corresponding UE. The base station transmits resource configuration for the D2D SA and/or D2D data transmissions to the UE. Frequency hopping schemes for the D2D SA and/or D2D data transmissions within one subframe or between subframes are predefined at network side. The UE obtains schemes for D2D SA and/or D2D data transmissions in time domain based on the resource configuration for the D2D SA and/or D2D data transmissions transmitted from the base station. The UE obtains schemes for D2D SA and/or D2D data transmissions in time domain based on the frequency hopping schemes for the D2D SA and/or D2D data transmissions within one subframe or between subframes are predefined the at network side.
Abstract:
A communication apparatus for transmitting data in such a way as to minimise interference with a communication, comprising multiple series of data blocks modulating a set of orthogonal frequencies, that is received using a Fourier transform having the length of a data block, the apparatus comprising an alignment unit configured to identify the set of orthogonal frequencies and timings of the data blocks, a pulse train generator configured to generate a pulse train comprising the data, in which the pulses are aligned with the data blocks and a communication unit configured to process the pulse train with a pulse shape and a carrier frequency that are compatible with the identified frequencies and timings of the data blocks to generate a signal that is substantially circulant with respect to the data blocks.
Abstract:
A communication device is described comprising a receiver configured to receive a radio signal from another communication device via a communication channel; a detector configured to detect the presence of an impairment of the communication channel; a determiner configured to determine a type of the impairment of the communication channel; and a transmitter configured to transmit an indication of the type of the impairment of the communication channel to the other communication device.
Abstract:
A frequency hopping receiver circuit has a frequency converter (12) and a hopping control circuit (14) coupled to the frequency converter (12), and configured to control frequency hopping of the received frequency, by controlling changes in frequency shift applied by the frequency converter (12). The frequency change is applied in combination with a temporary reduction in conversion gain of the frequency converter (12) during the change in frequency shift. The frequency converter may contain a mixer (122), a local oscillator circuit (120) and a controllable amplifier (124) coupled between the input of the frequency converter (12) and the mixer (122) or between the mixer (122) and the output of the frequency converter (12), or between the local oscillator circuit (120) and the local oscillator input of the mixer (122). In this case the hopping control circuit (14) has outputs coupled to a gain control input of the controllable amplifier (124) and a frequency control input of the local oscillator circuit (120), to control the reduction in conversion gain and the change in frequency shift respectively.
Abstract:
Based on a received signal of a wireless communication system currently used for communication, a communication quality in a case of switching to another wireless communication system for communication is efficiently and precisely estimated. A communication quality estimating part (201) subjects both a known signal received, by use of a first wireless communication system, from a radio part (200) and a reference signal outputted from a reference signal storage part (203) to a conversion processing unique to a second wireless communication system for comparison, thereby artificially estimating the communication quality in a case of using a second wireless communication system for communication under the same wireless transmission path environment.
Abstract:
A pilot reception power measuring section measures reception power of a pilot symbol and a data section reception power prediction section predicts reception power of data symbols based on the reception power of the pilot symbol. A power comparison section calculates a difference between this predicted value and the actual reception power of the data symbol, and when the difference is large, a collision position detection section regards the data symbol at the hopping position as colliding with data symbols in other cells. Then, an error correcting decoding section carries out error correcting processing by reducing likelihood of the data symbols detected to be involved in the collision and can thereby improve the error rate characteristic of decoded data.
Abstract:
Embodiments of the invention reduces the computational complexity of adaptive frequency hopping mechanisms while mitigating the effects of interference. Embodiments of the invention can provide structured adapted hopping sequences that reduce transitions between good and bad channels and/or assign good channels to slots where data is to be transmitted and bad channels to idle slots. Embodiments of the can be designed to comply with current FCC regulations, yet remain adaptable to changing rules.