A method to compensate a carrier frequency offset (CFO) in a receiver is disclosed. The method includes receiving discrete time samples, obtaining a sample vector from the received discrete time samples, obtaining tentative CFO estimates based on the sample vector, selecting a CFO having a greatest compensation coefficient from the tentative CFO estimates, and compensating the CFO in the received discrete time samples.

Methods, systems, and devices are described for mitigating an unwanted increase in a coding rate of a wireless communication signal. A plurality of symbols including a transmitted codeword is received. The plurality of symbols including a first group of data symbols with a first modulation and coding scheme and a second group of data modulated pilot symbols with a second modulation and coding scheme. Applicable demodulation schemes are adaptively switched for each group of the plurality of symbols. The second group of data modulated pilot symbols are used in lieu of pilot symbols. The second modulation and coding scheme is a more reliable modulation and coding scheme than the first modulation and coding scheme.

A method, an apparatus and a computer program product for enhancing reception of signals in a wireless communication system. A signal containing a frame including a plurality of symbols is received on an uplink communication channel. An angular position of at least one symbol in the plurality of symbols in a constellation of symbols is detected. The plurality of symbols include equalized symbols. An angular difference corresponding a phase error between the detected angular position of the symbol and an expected reference angular position in the constellation of symbols corresponding to an expected reference symbol corresponding to the received frame is determined. Using the determined phase error, a phase of the symbol is compensated.

This application relates to a sideband suppression method performed at a computer device. The method includes: obtaining a target baseband signal, a target signal correlated parameter corresponding to the target baseband signal, the target signal correlated parameter including at least one of a signal feature parameter corresponding to the target baseband signal or a signal feature parameter of a carrier signal corresponding to the target baseband signal, and a corresponding target sideband suppression parameter according to the target signal correlated parameter; performing signal correction on the target baseband signal based on the target sideband suppression parameter, to obtain a target corrected baseband signal, the target sideband suppression parameter being used for suppressing a power of a first suppression sideband corresponding to the target baseband signal; and inputting the target corrected baseband signal to a modulator for signal modulation, to obtain a target modulation signal corresponding to the target baseband signal.

A communication device and method include a reconfigurable receiver that is reconfigurable between communication, ranging and radar modes. The reconfigurable receiver includes a mixer configured to mix digital samples with a carrier phase estimate signal and configured to generate in-phase digital samples based on the carrier phase estimate. The reconfigurable receiver further includes a symbol correlator configured to correlate against the in-phase digital samples and generate correlated data, and a symbol binning unit configured to bin the correlated data and generate a first order channel impulse response estimate. The reconfigurable receiver yet further includes a multiplexer configured to switch the digital samples to the symbol binning unit when the reconfigurable receiver is configured in radar mode and to switch the correlated data to the symbol binning unit when the reconfigurable receiver is configured in a ranging mode.

A phase calibration method includes: segmenting a received measurement sequence according to a preset rule; respectively determining a phase calibration factor of each of segmented measurement sequences, wherein the each of the segmented measurement sequences respectively corresponds to a segmented phase; and when performing a phase calibration on a sequence to be verified, according to a matching relation between a phase of the sequence to be verified and the each of the segmented phases, using the phase calibration factor corresponding to a matched segmented phase to perform the phase calibration on the sequence to be verified. The embodiments of the phase calibration method and the device are equivalent to dividing a non-linear measurement sequence into several approximately linear measurement sequences, and then calibrating each of the several approximately linear measurement sequences using a corresponding phase calibration factor respectively.

A mixer in a receiver converts a sounding sequence of alternating ones and zeros to an intermediate frequency signal. A digital mixer converts the intermediate frequency signal to a baseband signal that contains a positive tone and a negative tone. A frequency offset correction circuit generates frequency offset corrections based on frequency offset estimates of the frequency offset between a transmitter of the sounding sequence and the receiver. A frequency adjustment circuit adjusts a frequency of the mixer or the digital mixer to thereby center the positive tone and the negative tone around DC. DFT circuits perform single bin DFTs respectively centered on the positive and negative tones. Phases of the positive and negative tones are calculated based on outputs of the DFT circuits and the phases are used to determine fractional time value associated with a distance measurement between the transmitter and receiver.

Clustering-based methods, apparatuses for frequency offset determination and elimination and electronic devices are disclosed. The clustering-based method for frequency offset determination includes: determining a constellation diagram for a received signal; determining N different values within a preset frequency interval, as N frequency offset estimates for a frequency offset of the received signal; for each of the frequency offset estimates, correcting the constellation diagram based on the frequency offset estimate to obtain a corrected constellation diagram, clustering signal points on the corrected constellation diagram, and calculating an area of a signal region in the corrected constellation diagram after clustering; and determining a frequency offset estimate corresponding to a signal region with a minimum area as a value of the frequency offset. The embodiments of the present invention can improve the accuracy and stability of the calculated value of the frequency offset.

A digital signal processor (DSP) for a receiver and a method for processing signals in a receiver are provided. The DSP comprises a processor configured to: receive a digital signal at a symbol rate in a frequency domain; and compensate an impairment of the digital signal in the frequency domain.

A method, an apparatus and a computer program product for enhancing reception of signals in a wireless communication system. A signal containing a frame including a plurality of symbols is received on an uplink communication channel. An angular position of at least one symbol in the plurality of symbols in a constellation of symbols is detected. The plurality of symbols include equalized symbols. An angular difference corresponding a phase error between the detected angular position of the symbol and an expected reference angular position in the constellation of symbols corresponding to an expected reference symbol corresponding to the received frame is determined. Using the determined phase error, a phase of the symbol is compensated.