Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology exploits modulated coded impulses over a wide frequency spectrum with very low power over a short distance for digital data transmission. Today's leading edge modulated sinusoidal wave wireless communication standards and systems achieve power efficiencies of 50 nJ/bit employing narrowband signaling schemes and traditional RF transceiver architectures. However, such designs severely limit the achievable energy efficiency, especially at lower data rates such as below 1 Mbps. Further, it is important that peak power consumption is supportable by common battery or energy harvesting technologies and long term power consumption neither leads to limited battery lifetimes or an inability for alternate energy sources to sustain them. Accordingly, it would be beneficial for next generation applications to exploit inventive transceiver structures and communication schemes in order to achieve the sub nJ per bit energy efficiencies required by next generation applications.

Techniques for constant envelope phase modulation and demodulation of a wireless signal such as BLE are described. The method comprises: dividing a binary data stream to be transmitted into a plurality of groups of binary data according to a predetermined phase modulation mode, each group of binary data comprising a plurality of bits; mapping the binary data stream into a plurality of phase symbols, wherein each group of binary data is mapped into one phase symbol; modulating a phase sequence composed of the phase symbols into a phase signal using a phase waveform obtained by integrating a predetermined pulse function; and converting the phase signal into two baseband signals by means of a cosine function and a sine function respectively.

Techniques for constant envelope phase modulation and demodulation of a wireless signal such as BLE are described. The method comprises: dividing a binary data stream to be transmitted into a plurality of groups of binary data according to a predetermined phase modulation mode, each group of binary data comprising a plurality of bits; mapping the binary data stream into a plurality of phase symbols, wherein each group of binary data is mapped into one phase symbol; modulating a phase sequence composed of the phase symbols into a phase signal using a phase waveform obtained by integrating a predetermined pulse function; and converting the phase signal into two baseband signals by means of a cosine function and a sine function respectively.

Disclosed are short-form demodulation reference signals configured to indicate certain modulation levels of a modulation scheme, from which a receiver can measure phase noise and amplitude noise in 5G/6G. A key feature of short-form demodulation references is resource efficiency. Examples include a demodulation reference occupying just one resource element, while providing the information needed to determine all of the modulation states of the modulation scheme, as well as the current noise factors. In one embodiment, the short-form demodulation reference may include two component signals with orthogonal phase, both being amplitude modulated by the transmitter according to a maximum amplitude level. The receiver can determine the phase noise from a ratio of the two received signal amplitudes, and the amplitude noise from the magnitude of the received waveform, thereby mitigating both amplitude noise and phase noise. The short-form demodulation reference can be added to each message for real-time noise mitigation.

There is disclosed a method of operating a transmitting node in a millimeter-wave communication network. The method includes transmitting communication signaling in a transmission timing structure, the communication signaling including leading reference signaling in a leading time interval at the beginning of the transmission timing structure and including trailing reference signaling in a trailing time interval at the end of the timing structure. The leading reference signaling starts with a first reference signaling time-domain sequence, and the trailing reference signaling ending with the first reference time-domain signaling sequence. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.

There is disclosed a method of operating a transmitting node in a millimeter-wave communication network. The method includes transmitting communication signaling in a transmission timing structure, the communication signaling including leading reference signaling in a leading time interval at the beginning of the transmission timing structure and including trailing reference signaling in a trailing time interval at the end of the timing structure. The leading reference signaling starts with a first reference signaling time-domain sequence, and the trailing reference signaling ending with the first reference time-domain signaling sequence. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.

Methods and system for carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation are described. The method includes determining correlation values between a plurality of samples from a received signal and a plurality of reference signals corresponding to a plurality of CFO candidates. A set of correlation values which exceeds a threshold is determined and a corresponding CFO candidate for each correlation value in the set is selected. A CFO estimate based on an interpolation of selected CFO candidates is then calculated.

A transmitter is configured to transmit a radio frequency (RF) signal to a receiver. The receiver is configured to receive the RF signal and decode data. Furthermore, a method of wireless communication is provided between the transmitter and the receiver, in which the transmitter transmits to the receiver the RF signal. A carrier phase of the RF signal is randomly converted. The receiver detects an envelope of the RF signal, and extracts data from the RF signal.

A transmitting device (20) overlays control information onto information bit stream intended for a receiving device (40) by varying or shifting the modulation index in continuous phase modulation (CPM) waveform. The receiving device (40) detects the modulation index used at the transmitting device (20) to modulate the data burst. The receiving device (40) then determines the control information based on the detected modulation index.

A transmitting device (20) overlays control information onto information bit stream intended for a receiving device (40) by varying or shifting the modulation index in continuous phase modulation (CPM) waveform. The receiving device (40) detects the modulation index used at the transmitting device (20) to modulate the data burst. The receiving device (40) then determines the control information based on the detected modulation index.