H04B7/0817

Apparatus and methods for wideband receivers
11064446 · 2021-07-13 · ·

Provided herein are apparatus and methods for wideband receivers. In certain configurations, a radio frequency (RF) communication system includes two or more receiver slices that operate in parallel with one another to process an RF input signal. The receiver slices generate digital signals by processing different sub-bands of the RF input signal. For example, the RF communication system can include a first receiver slice that processes a first sub-band of the RF input signal and that generates a first digital signal representing the first sub-band, and a second receiver slice that processes a second sub-band of the RF input signal and generates a second digital signal representing the second sub-band. The RF communication system further includes a clock generation circuit that generates one or more clock signals to control timing of the receiver slices, and a sub-band processing circuit that processes the digital signals from the receiver slices.

Single clock timeshared channelizer circuit

An RF detection system includes a signal routing processor and a dynamically reconfigurable channelizer. The signal routing processor selects an operating mode of the RF detection system among a plurality of different operating mode. The dynamically reconfigurable channelizer invokes the selected operating mode in response to a routing control signal output by the signal routing processor. The dynamically reconfigurable channelizer includes a plurality of signal processing resources and a crossbar switching circuit. The crossbar switching circuit includes a signal input to receive an input signal and a signal output to output a final processed signal indicating a detected object. The crossbar switching circuit selectively establishes a plurality of different signal routing paths that connect the plurality of signal processing resources to the signal input and signal output.

X2 protocol programmability

A method for X2 interface communication is disclosed, comprising: at an X2 gateway for communicating with, and coupled to, a first and a second radio access network (RAN), receiving messages from the first RAN according to a first X2 protocol and mapping the received messages to a second X2 protocol for transmission to the second RAN; maintaining state of one of the first RAN or the second RAN at the X2 gateway; executing executable code received at an interpreter at the X2 gateway as part of the received messages; altering the maintained state based on the executed executable code; and receiving and decoding an initial X2 message from the first RAN; identifying specific strings in the initial X2 message; matching the identified specific strings in a database of stored scripts; and performing a transformation on the initial X2 message, the transformation being retrieved from the database for stored scripts, the stored scripts being transformations.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME MULTIPLEXING PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS TO MODEMS
20210021031 · 2021-01-21 ·

A system having a platform upon which several phased antenna arrays are mounted and which can communicate with satellites. The system includes a switch that can connect any of the phased array antennas to any of available modems. The system further includes a router that can connect any of the modems to any available computing devices. Based on parameters such as data rates, signal strength, and account information, one or more communication paths are selected for a computing device requesting to communicate with a satellite. Each communication path is established by operating the switch to connect a selected antenna to a selected modem, and operating the router to transfer data between the computing device and the selected modem.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECEIVE DIVERSITY COMBINING
20210021331 · 2021-01-21 ·

Receive diversity combining uses signals received at multiple antennas and combine them to obtain a higher overall signal to noise ratio. Multi-level ranking is employed to determine the weight assigned to each channel and, once the channels are weighted the weighted signals are added together. In a two-level example the first level ranks the signals according to fidelity of the signal. This is done by calculating cross correlation coefficients, where highest coefficient indicates best fidelity. The second level ranks the channels according to peak to average power ratio. The lowest value indicates the best channel. The two rankings are combined to generate the weight coefficient for each channel prior to combining the signals from all the channels.

Communication Device, Vehicle, Method and Computer Program for Communication in a Mobile Communication System
20210014935 · 2021-01-14 ·

A communication device for communication in one or more mobile communication systems has a selection device for coupling one or more mobile radio antennas to one or more signal paths on the basis of a selection signal. The communication device also has a transceiver module, which is designed to generate the selection signal and to communicate in the one or more mobile communication systems by way of the coupled mobile radio antennas. The transceiver module is designed to select, on the basis of two or more user identifications, different mobile radio antennas for communication in the one or more mobile communication systems by way of the selection signal. The transceiver module is designed to take isolation and/or correlation between the mobile radio antennas into account in the selection.

Diversity receiver configurations with wide-band downstream amplifiers

Disclosed herein are configurations and devices for amplifying radio-frequency signals. The devices and configurations include using a wide-band or tunable downstream amplifier to amplify signals in a downstream or back-end module. The signals are first filtered and amplified by an upstream or front-end module that receives a diversity signal from a diversity antenna.

Radio-frequency switch and control method therefor

A radio-frequency switch includes: at least two signal transmission modules, each signal transmission module includes a common port, a first series branch module, a second series branch module and a branch port; a parallel branch module; and a ground port. The parallel branch module is disposed between the ground port and a first terminal, and the first terminal is disposed between the first series branch module and the second series branch module. The common port is further connected with common ports of the other signal transmission modules in the radio-frequency switch, and the branch port is further connected with branch ports of the other signal transmission modules in the radio-frequency switch. State switching of the radio-frequency switch is realized by changing states of the first series branch module, the second series branch module and the parallel branch module.

APPARATUS AND METHOD OF RECOVERING BEAM PATTERN IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
20200382195 · 2020-12-03 ·

The disclosure relates to a pre-5.sup.th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4.sup.th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). An operation method of a communication node in a wireless communication system is provided. The operation method includes generating a default beam pattern, based on a plurality of radio-frequency (RF) paths, by applying beamforming parameters, detecting a path failure associated with at least one RF path among the plurality of RF paths, identifying beamforming parameters based on the default beam pattern in response to the detection, and generating a recovered beam pattern associated with the default beam pattern based on the identified beamforming parameters, wherein the beamforming parameters for generating the recovered beam pattern are determined based on a shape of the default beam pattern.

Interference cancellation for receivers with multiple antennas
10849133 · 2020-11-24 · ·

The present disclosure describes apparatuses and methods of interference cancellation for receivers with multiple antennas. In some aspects, an interference packet transmitted by an interfering device of a wireless environment is received via multiple antennas of a device. Based on the interference packet, an interference channel that describes interference in the wireless environment is estimated. The device then receives an intended packet through the wireless environment in which the interfering device is operating. At least a portion of interference received with the intended packet, such as interference caused by other interfering packets, is cancelled using the interference channel By so doing, a receiver may reduce effects of interfering packets or signals of the wireless environment to improve receive performance (e.g., bit-error rate) for packets that are intended for reception by the device.