H04J11/003

Wireless communication systems with code-division multiple access and interference avoidance
10666316 · 2020-05-26 · ·

The present disclosure includes wireless communication systems with code-division multiple access with interference avoidance (CDMA-IA). In one embodiment, the wireless communication system includes a plurality of transmitters and a plurality of receivers. At least one transmitter of the plurality of transmitters is configured to detect unoccupied segments of spectrum occupancy of interference at one of the plurality of receivers, and spread power of a transmitted signal non-uniformly across a channel bandwidth that is much wider than an information bandwidth of the transmitted signal using a plurality of non-contiguous spectral segments that correspond to the unoccupied segments of the spectrum occupancy of the interference at the one of the plurality of receivers. At least one receiver of the plurality of receivers is configured to perform a demodulation process by coherently integrating the power of the transmitted signal over the plurality of non-contiguous spectral segments.

METHOD FOR IMPROVING SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO IN AN UPLINK TRANSMISSION
20200162116 · 2020-05-21 ·

A method for improving signal to noise ratio in an uplink transmission. The method includes determining a plurality of combinations of N possible users to be selected among X users that are transmitting signals to a base station comprising n number of antennas, where n>=N, wherein selected N users transmit on a same sub-carrier; computing signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the signals received from each of the users among the determined combination of N possible users; and selecting at least one combination among the plurality of combinations of N possible users, such that, a combined signal to noise ratio of the selected combination is maximum among all combinations.

Coded Antenna Array
20200162122 · 2020-05-21 · ·

Coded antenna arrays and associated methods, apparatus and systems are disclosed. Signals transmitted by a client device are received at a plurality of antennas or antenna elements in an antenna array. The received signals are coded using codes such as orthogonal codes and pseudorandom number sequences under which the codes are selected to enable extraction of individual received signals. The coded signals are then combined to form a combined coded waveform that is processed using shared receiver circuitry. The shared receiver circuitry is configured to extract the signals received at each antenna using the codes used to code the received signals. Use of multiple client devices is also supported, with the receiver circuitry further configured to filter out signals received from individual client systems and calculate the phase and magnitude of the signals as received at each antenna. The signal phase and magnitude may be used for wireless transmission of power to clients by a wireless power transmission system.

Apparatus and method for performing beamforming operation in wireless communication system

The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as a long term evolution (LTE). A method for performing a beamforming operation in a wireless communication system supporting a full-duplex scheme includes acquiring reference information for allocating a resource, determining a user equipment (UE) combination of a transmission (Tx) UE and a reception (Rx) UE which is capable of sharing a resource from combinations of at least Tx UE and at least one Rx UE, based on the acquired reference information, and allocating a Tx antenna beam for the Tx UE of the UE combination and an Rx antenna beam for the Rx UE of the UE combination.

METHOD FOR ELIMINATING INTERFERENCE BETWEEN RESOURCE BLOCKS FOR FILTERBANK MULTICARRIER SCHEME AND APPARATUS USING THEREOF
20200145272 · 2020-05-07 ·

The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for reducing or eliminating interferences between resource blocks in a transmitter and/or a receiver of a filter bank multicarrier system is provided. According to at least one embodiment, the method comprises performing discrete Fourier transform (DFT) on a data symbol vector to be transmitted thereby generating a DFT-spread data symbol vector, performing a cyclic shift operation on the DFT-spread data symbol vector to arrange a small magnitude element of the DFT-spread data symbol vector at an edge of a resource block allocated to the DFT-spread data symbol vector, and performing filter bank multicarrier (FBMC) modulation on a cyclically shifted DFT-spread data symbol vector.

Interference Cancellation Methods used in Base Stations and User Equipments

The present disclosure relates to a method performed by a BS for facilitating IC at a UE and an associated BS. The method includes predefining one or more sets of transmission parameters, where one or more of the transmission parameters in the one or more sets are constrained to take values from respective reduced sets of values out of the values available for the respective one or more transmission parameters, each set of the one or more sets of transmission parameters being identifiable by a unique indication. The method further includes configuring a transmission of the BS, which is to interfere downlink transmissions to the UE from a serving BS of the UE, by using one of the predefined one or more sets of transmission parameters. The present disclosure also relates to a method in a UE for IC and an associated UE.

Transmission method, transmission control method, and communication apparatus

A transmission method is provided for a communication system in which communications using a plurality of communication methods having different transmission parameters are performed at the same frequency (in frequency bands that at least partially overlap with each other). The transmission method includes: generating a first symbol group that includes a control symbol for causing a communication partner apparatus to recognize that communication using a first communication method is to be performed and a second symbol group that includes a data symbol for the first communication method; transmitting the first symbol group at a first transmit power; and transmitting the second symbol group at a second transmit power that is smaller than the first transmit power.

Optimal forward error correction for non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) communications systems
10630512 · 2020-04-21 · ·

A multiple access scheme is provided. A first communications terminal encodes a first data stream using a forward error correction (FEC) code, and scrambles the encoded first data stream based on a first scrambling signature. A second communications terminal encodes a second data stream using the FEC code, and scrambles the encoded second data stream based on a second scrambling signature. The first scrambling signature and the second scrambling signature are used, respectively, by the first terminal and the second terminal to distinguish the first encoded data stream from the second encoded data stream as respectively originating from the first terminal and the second terminal in a multiple access scheme, whereby the first encoded data stream and the second encoded data stream simultaneously share a wireless communications channel. The FEC code is a low density parity check (LDPC) code configured with a data node degree of two or three.

METHOD AND USER EQUIPMENT FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK SIGNAL AND USER EQUIPMENT FOR RECEIVING UPLINK SIGNAL
20200120641 · 2020-04-16 · ·

A user equipment operating in a coverage enhancement mode in a wireless communication system, includes a transceiver, at least one processor, and at least one computer memory that is operably connectable to the processor and that has stored thereon instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to perform operations comprising transmitting, via the transceiver, a random access preamble on a uplink system band; receiving, via the transceiver, a random access response related to the random access preamble; and transmitting, via the transceiver, a first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) for carrying Msg3 based on the random access response, wherein the uplink system band comprises a plurality of uplink frequency bands in a frequency domain, each of the plurality of uplink frequency bands includes only a predetermined number of consecutive resource blocks in the frequency domain, and the random access response includes frequency resource information for the first PUSCH.

WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE

An electronic device for wireless communication with two groups of communication devices, the electronic device comprising a processing circuit, wherein the processing circuit is configured to: acquire a first waveform parameter related to a first group of communication devices, wherein the first waveform parameter is related to the form of a signal waveform for communications by the first group of communication devices; and notify a second group of communication devices of the first waveform parameter such that the second group of communication devices can determine, based on the first waveform parameter, a precoding matrix for communications by the second group of communication devices. Further disclosed are a wireless communication method, a base station, and a second wireless communication device from among one group of communication devices.