Pulse or digital communications – Receivers – Particular pulse demodulator or detector
Reexamination Certificate
2001-12-27
2004-03-16
Vo, Don N (Department: 2631)
Pulse or digital communications
Receivers
Particular pulse demodulator or detector
C375S347000, C375S350000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06707864
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND
The present invention relates to communication systems imploring code division multiple access (CDMA) techniques. More particularly, the present invention relates to a transmission diversity scheme which can be applied to a CDMA communication.
Spatial diversity has been proposed for support of very high data rate users within third generation wide band code division multiple access systems. Using multiple antennas, the systems achieves better gains and link quality, which results in increased system capacity. Classically, diversity has been exploited through the use of either beam steering or through diversity combining.
More recently, it has been realized that coordinated use of diversity can be achieved through the use of space-time codes. Such systems can theoretically increase capacity by up to a factor equaling the number of transmit and receive antennas in the array. Space-time codes operate on a block of input symbols producing a matrix output over antennas and time.
In the past, space-time transmit diversity systems have transmitted consecutive symbols simultaneously with their complex conjugates. This type of system, though, may result in symbol overlap at the receiving end. The amount of overlap is dependent on the length of the impulse response of the propagation channel. In time division duplex (TDD) mode, this symbol overlap will have to be accounted for in the joint detection receiver. The joint detector will have to estimate the overlapping transmitted symbols and their conjugates, resulting in an increase in complexity of the joint detection.
In order to alleviate this increase in joint detection complexity, systems have been created which transmit two similar but different data fields. The first data field, having a first portion, D
1
, and a second portion, D
2
, is transmitted by the first antenna. A second data field is produced by modifying the first data field. The negation of the conjugate of D
2
, −D
2
*, is the first portion of the second data field and the conjugate of D
1
, D
1
*, is the second portion. The second data field is simultaneously transmitted by the second antenna.
Although this diversity transmission scheme reduces receiver complexity, receivers for this scheme are still very complex. Such receivers utilize two joint detection devices. Each joint detection device recovers the data field transmitted from one of the antennas individually. Such an implementation deals with cross interference between the two transmitted data fields by dealing with each antenna's transmission separately. As a result, each joint detection device treats the other antenna's transmission as noise. The symbols recovered from each joint detection device are combined using a decoder to determine {right arrow over (d)}
1
and {right arrow over (d)}
2
. A block diagram of this system is illustrated in FIG.
1
. The receiver in such a system has a high complexity due to the use of two joint detectors resulting in higher receiver expense.
Accordingly, there exists a need for alternate receiver implementations.
SUMMARY
The present invention is a method and system for receiving data transmitted using block space time transmit diversity (BSTTD) in a code division multiple access (CDMA) communication system. The system comprises a transmitter for transmitting a first data field using a first antenna and a second data field using a second antenna and a receiver. The receiver includes an antenna for receiving the first and second transmitted data fields, and a BSTTD joint detector which determines symbols of the first and second transmitted data fields using a minimum mean square error block linear equalizer model and an approximated Cholesky decomposition of the model.
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InterDigital Technology Corporation
Vo Don N
Volpe and Koenig P.C.
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