Pulse or digital communications – Spread spectrum – Direct sequence
Patent
1997-12-31
2000-09-26
Bocure, Tesfaldet
Pulse or digital communications
Spread spectrum
Direct sequence
375332, H04K 100
Patent
active
061251364
ABSTRACT:
A method and an apparatus for demodulating trellis coded direct sequence spread spectrum communication signals are provided. A transmitted QPSK signal is received. Binary phase-shift keyed (BPSK) despreading is performed on the QPSK signal. The BPSK despreading includes correlating the in-phase and the quadrature components of the received QPSK signal with independent PN sequences for the each of the in-phase and the quadrature components. The despread signal is then demultiplexed, and the pilot signal and the BPSK data signal are recovered. The recovered pilot signal is used to provide a channel phase estimate and a channel magnitude estimate. The recovered BPSK data signal is demodulated, despread, and decoded. The despreading and decoding includes determining a number of cross-correlation terms of the received signal using a number of transmitted biorthogonal Walsh sequences. The cross-correlation terms are used as the branch metrics in a maximum likelihood decoding algorithm. The branch metrics may be computed with a Fast Walsh Transform scaled in response to the channel phase estimate from the recovered pilot signal. The maximum likelihood decoding algorithm may be a Viterbi algorithm in which the optimum path is the path with the maximum accumulated branch metric. The decoding algorithm recovers and outputs a transmitted data bit sequence.
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Jones William W.
Kenney Thomas J.
Bocure Tesfaldet
Sony Corporation
Sony Electronics Inc.
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