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Wireless communication network using time-varying vector channel equalization for adaptive spatial equalization
Assignee: Cisco Technology Inc
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Filing: 1996-10-18
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Granted: 1999-12-21
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Expires: 2016-10-18
Abstract
Abstract An adaptive reception and transmission technique according to one embodiment of the invention offers the advantages of adaptive reception transmission using feedback without the associated mobile radio complexity increase and information capacity penalty. The technique has been developed to exploit structured variation which occurs in the multipath fading present in the wireless antenna array channel. Thus, multipath propagation effects are explicitly accounted for in the problem approach. The technique is blind in that the antenna beam is formed in the absence of explicit knowledge of the array geometry, and without the necessity of array calibration or mobile feedback. The basic approach is to estimate the optimum receive and transmit antenna beam pattern based on certain statistical properties of the received antenna array signals. The optimum receive and transmit beam pattern is found by solving an optimization equation. The adaptive transceiver system is suitable for use in conjunction with either a diplexed transmit/receive antenna array, or with separate transmit and receive arrays.
Inventors
- 👤 Gregory G. Raleigh
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-02 17:08
CPC Classifications
H; H01; H01Q; H01Q3/00; H01Q3/26; H01Q3/2605; H01Q25/00; H04; H04W; H04W24/00; H04W72/00; H04W88/00; H04W88/08
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 16
Claim 1
Independent Claim
126 words
A base station receive processor for communicating with a remote station comprising: a plurality of inputs receiving inbound information signals from said remote station via a plurality of antennas and a plurality of receivers; and a signal processor that 1) accepts said inbound information signals as input, 2) estimates transmitted data based on said inbound information signals, 3) estimates a desired channel based on said estimated transmitted data, 4) identifies an undesired component of a receive channel statistical characterization based on a difference between said inbound information signals and signals resulting from applying said estimated desired channel to said estimated transmitted data, and 5) applies a weighting to said plurality of inputs based on said estimated desired channel and said undesired component of said statistical characterization.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
126 words
A base station receive processor for communicating with a remote station comprising: a plurality of inputs receiving inbound information signals from said remote station via a plurality of antennas and a plurality of receivers; and a signal processor that 1) accepts said inbound information signals as input, 2) estimates transmitted data based on said inbound information signals, 3) estimates a desired channel based on said estimated transmitted data, 4) identifies an undesired component of a receive channel statistical characterization based on a difference between said inbound information signals and signals resulting from applying said estimated desired channel to said estimated transmitted data, and 5) applies a weighting to said plurality of inputs based on said estimated desired channel and said undesired component of said statistical characterization.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
19 words
The receive processor of claim 1 wherein said estimated transmitted data represents data received from exactly one remote station.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
12 words
The receive processor of claim 1 further comprising said plurality of receivers.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
12 words
The receive processor of claim 1 further comprising said plurality of antennas.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
25 words
The receive processor of claim 1 wherein said signal processor comprises: one or more time-varying channel estimation filters to apply to estimate said desired channel.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
14 words
The receive processor of claim 1 wherein said statistical characterization comprises a covariance matrix.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
17 words
The receive processor of claim 1 wherein said undesired component comprises a subspace of said covariance matrix.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
17 words
The receive processor of claim 7 wherein said weighting is determined based on a signal quality criterion.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
32 words
The receive processor of claim 8 wherein said signal quality criterion is an SINR criterion based on instantaneous values of said estimated desired channel and said undesired component of said statistical characterization.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
37 words
The receive processor of claim 8 wherein said signal quality criterion is an SINR criterion based on a time average of said estimated desired channel and an instantaneous value of said undesired component of said statistical characterization.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
24 words
The receive processor of claim 8 wherein said signal quality criterion is a combination of an instantaneous SINR criterion and an average SINR criterion.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
137 words
A communications system comprising: a base station; exactly one remote unit transmitting to said base station at a frequency; said base station comprising: a plurality of inputs receiving inbound information signals from said remote station via a plurality of antennas and a plurality of receivers; and a signal processor that 1) accepts said inbound information signals as input, 2) estimates transmitted data based on said inbound information signals, 3) estimates a desired channel based on said estimated transmitted data, 4) identifies an undesired component of a receive channel statistical characterization based on a difference between said inbound information signals and signals resulting from applying said estimated desired channel to said estimated transmitted data, and 5) applies a weighting to said plurality of inputs based on said estimated desired channel and said undesired component of said statistical characterization.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
137 words
A communications system comprising: a base station; exactly one remote unit transmitting to said base station at a frequency; said base station comprising: a plurality of inputs receiving inbound information signals from said remote station via a plurality of antennas and a plurality of receivers; and a signal processor that 1) accepts said inbound information signals as input, 2) estimates transmitted data based on said inbound information signals, 3) estimates a desired channel based on said estimated transmitted data, 4) identifies an undesired component of a receive channel statistical characterization based on a difference between said inbound information signals and signals resulting from applying said estimated desired channel to said estimated transmitted data, and 5) applies a weighting to said plurality of inputs based on said estimated desired channel and said undesired component of said statistical characterization.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
130 words
In a wireless communication system comprising a base station and a remote unit transmitting to said base station, a method of operating said base station comprising: estimating a signal sequence transmitted by said remote unit by applying output of an equalizer to a decision device; estimating a channel state for a channel from said remote unit to said base station based on said estimated signal sequence and knowledge of signal transmitted by said remote unit; estimating a received interference plus noise sequence based on said estimated signal sequence and said knowledge of signal transmitted by said remote unit; updating an interference covariance matrix based on said received interference plus noise sequence; and updating a weight vector of said equalizer based on said estimated channel state and said interference covariance matrix.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
130 words
In a wireless communication system comprising a base station and a remote unit transmitting to said base station, a method of operating said base station comprising: estimating a signal sequence transmitted by said remote unit by applying output of an equalizer to a decision device; estimating a channel state for a channel from said remote unit to said base station based on said estimated signal sequence and knowledge of signal transmitted by said remote unit; estimating a received interference plus noise sequence based on said estimated signal sequence and said knowledge of signal transmitted by said remote unit; updating an interference covariance matrix based on said received interference plus noise sequence; and updating a weight vector of said equalizer based on said estimated channel state and said interference covariance matrix.
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