Data transmission method and apparatus

• US 10,200,225 B2
• Filed: 03/29/2017
• Issued: 02/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Zhang, Jiayin, Zhu, Jun, Liu, Yalin, Lin, Yingpei
• Primary Examiner(s): Ebrahim, Anez C
• Application Number:
  US15/473,269
• Publication Number:
  US 20170207944A1
• Time in Patent Office: 678 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2602 Signal structure
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2603 Signal structure ensuring backward compatibility with legacy system
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/08 Learning-based routing, e.g. using neural networks or artificial intelligence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0044 allocation of payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

A method includes generating a preamble for a protocol version of a wireless local area network, where the preamble includes a legacy signal L-SIG field and a high efficiency signal HE-SIG field that are arranged in order, the HE-SIG field includes a first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing OFDM symbol and a second OFDM symbol that are arranged in order, and an input information bit of the first OFDM symbol is the same as that of the second OFDM symbol, and sending the preamble to a receive end device, so that the receive end device restores the preamble, and when determining that input information bits obtained after restoring the first OFDM symbol and the second OFDM symbol are the same, determines that the preamble is the preamble of the protocol version.

Claims

1. A data transmission method, comprising:

generating a preamble corresponding to a protocol version of a transmission on a wireless local area network, wherein the preamble comprises a high efficiency signal (HE-SIG) field, wherein the HE-SIG field comprises four symbols including a first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, a second OFDM symbol, a third OFDM symbol and a fourth OFDM symbol, wherein the four symbols are arranged in order, and input information bits of the first OFDM symbol are the same as that of the second OFDM symbol, and wherein input information bits of the third OFDM symbol are the same as that of the fourth OFDM symbol, wherein the input information bits of the third and fourth OFDM symbols include all left information bits except the input information bits of the first and second OFDM symbols, in information bits that need to be carried in the HE-SIG field, wherein the generating the preamble comprises processing the input information bits of the first and second OFDM symbol, by using a channel encoder, an interleaver, and a first modulator, to obtain the first OFDM symbol, and, by using the channel encoder, without interleaving, and a second modulator to obtain the second OFDM symbol, wherein the first modulator and the second modulator are same or different, and wherein the generating the preamble further comprises processing the input information bits of the third and fourth OFDM symbol, by using the channel encoder, the interleaver, and a third modulator to obtain the third OFDM symbol, and, by using the channel encoder, without interleaving, and a fourth modulator to obtain the fourth OFDM symbol, wherein the third modulator and the fourth modulator are the same or are different; and

sending the preamble to a receive end device.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein a time domain signal of the first OFDM symbol is different from a time domain signal of the second OFDM symbol.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first modulator is a binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) modulator, and the second modulator is a quaternary binary phase shift keying (QBPSK) modulator.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the third modulator is a BPSK modulator.

5. A data transmission method, comprising:

receiving a preamble sent by a transmit end device corresponding to a protocol version of a transmission on a wireless local area network, wherein the preamble comprises a high efficiency signal (HE-SIG) field, wherein the HE-SIG field comprises four symbols including a first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, a second OFDM symbol, a third OFDM symbol and a fourth OFDM symbol, wherein the four symbols are arranged in order, and wherein input information bits of the second OFDM symbol are the same as that of the first OFDM symbol, and input information bits of the third OFDM symbol are the same as that of the fourth OFDM symbol, wherein the input information bits of the third and fourth OFDM symbols include all information bits, other than the input information bits of the first and second OFDM symbols, in information bits that need to be carried in the HE-SIG field; and

processing the first OFDM symbol, the second OFDM symbol, the third OFDM symbol and the fourth OFDM symbol in the preamble, wherein the processing the first OFDM symbol, the second OFDM symbol, the third OFDM symbol and the fourth OFDM symbol in the preamble comprises parsing the first OFDM symbol to obtain the input information bits of the first and second OFDM symbols, by using a channel decoder, a de-interleaver, and a first de-modulator, and parsing the second OFDM symbol to obtain the input information bits of the first and second OFDM symbols, by using the channel decoder without de-interleaving, and further by using a second de-modulator, wherein the first de-modulator and the second de-modulator are the same or are different, and wherein the processing the first OFDM symbol, the second OFDM symbol, the third OFDM symbol and the fourth OFDM symbol in the preamble further comprises parsing the third OFDM symbol to obtain the input information bits of the third and fourth OFDM symbols, by using the channel decoder, the de-interleaver, and a third de-modulator, and parsing the fourth OFDM symbol to obtain the input information bits of the third and fourth OFDM symbols, by using the channel decoder without de-interleaving, and further by using a fourth de-modulator, wherein the third de-modulator and the fourth de-modulator are the same or are different.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein a time domain signal of the first OFDM symbol is different from a time domain signal of the second OFDM symbol.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the first de-modulator is a binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) de-modulator, the second de-modulator is a quaternary binary phase shift keying (QBPSK) de-modulator.

8. The method according to claim 5, wherein the third de-modulator is a BPSK de-modulator.

9. A transmit end device, for transmitting a preamble corresponding to a protocol version of a transmission on a wireless local area network, comprising:

a channel encoder;

an interleaver;

a first modulator;

a second modulator;

a third modulator;

a fourth modulator; and

a transmitter;

wherein the preamble comprises a high efficiency signal (HE-SIG) field, the HE-SIG field comprises four symbols including a first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, a second OFDM symbol, a third OFDM symbol and a fourth OFDM symbol, wherein the four symbols are arranged in order, and input information bits of the first OFDM symbol are the same as that of the second OFDM symbol, and input information bits of the third OFDM symbol are the same as that of the fourth OFDM symbol;

wherein the input information bits of the third and fourth OFDM symbols include all information bits, other than the input information bits of the first and second OFDM symbols, in information bits that need to be carried in the HE-SIG field;

wherein the input information bits of the first and second OFDM symbol are processed by the channel encoder, the interleaver, and the first modulator to obtain the first OFDM symbol;

wherein the input information bits of the first and second OFDM symbol are processed by the channel encoder, without interleaving, and further by the second modulator to obtain the second OFDM symbol, wherein the first modulator and the second modulator are the same or are different;

wherein the input information bits of the third and fourth OFDM symbol are processed by the channel encoder, the interleaver, and the third modulator to obtain the third OFDM symbol;

wherein the input information bits of the third and fourth OFDM symbol are processed by the channel encoder, without interleaving, and further by the fourth modulator to obtain the fourth OFDM symbol, wherein the third modulator and the fourth modulator are same or different; and

wherein the transmitter is configured to send the preamble to a receive end device.

10. The device according to claim 9, wherein a time domain signal of the first OFDM symbol is different from a time domain signal of the second OFDM symbol.

11. The device according to claim 9, wherein the first modulator is a binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) modulator, the second modulator is a quaternary binary phase shift keying (QBPSK) modulator.

12. The device according to claim 9, wherein the third modulator is a BPSK modulator.

13. A receive end device, for receiving a preamble sent by a transmit end device corresponding to a protocol version of a transmission on a wireless local area network, comprising:

a channel decoder;

an de-interleaver;

a first de-modulator;

a second de-modulator;

a third de-modulator; and

a fourth de-modulator;

wherein the preamble comprises a high efficiency signal (HE-SIG) field, the HE-SIG field comprises four symbols including a first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, a second OFDM symbol, a third OFDM symbol and a fourth OFDM symbol, wherein the four symbols are arranged in order, and input information bits of the second OFDM symbol are the same as that of the first OFDM symbol, and input information bits of the third OFDM symbol are the same as that of the fourth OFDM symbol;

wherein the input information bits of the third and fourth OFDM symbols include all left information bits except the input information bits of the first and second OFDM symbols, in information bits that need to be carried in the HE-SIG field;

wherein the first OFDM symbol is parsed to obtain the input information bits of the first and second OFDM symbols, by the channel decoder, the de-interleaver, and the first de-modulator;

wherein the second OFDM symbol is parsed to obtain the input information bits of the first and second OFDM symbols, by the channel decoder without de-interleaving, and further by a second de-modulator, wherein the first de-modulator and the second de-modulator are the same or are different; and

wherein the third OFDM symbol is parsed to obtain the input information bits of the third and fourth OFDM symbols, by the channel decoder, the de-interleaver, and the third de-modulator; and

wherein the fourth OFDM symbol is parsed to obtain the input information bits of the third and fourth OFDM symbols by the channel decoder, without de-interleaving, and further by the fourth de-modulator, wherein the third de-modulator and the fourth de-modulator are the same or are different.

14. The device according to claim 13, wherein a time domain signal of the first OFDM symbol is different from a time domain signal of the second OFDM symbol.

15. The device according to claim 13, wherein the first de-modulator is a binary phase shift keying (BPSK) de-modulator, the second de-modulator is a quaternary binary phase shift keying (QBPSK) de-modulator.

16. The device according to claim 13, wherein the third de-modulator is a BPSK de-modulator.