Guard intervals for wireless networks

• US 10,461,983 B2
• Filed: 03/30/2017
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Gagiev, Yaroslav P., Lomayev, Artyom, Maltsev, Alexander, Genossar, Michael, Cordeiro, Carlos
• Primary Examiner(s): Phunkulh, Bob A
• Application Number:
  US15/474,972
• Publication Number:
  US 20180062902A1
• Time in Patent Office: 943 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0413 MIMO systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 13/0014 Golay
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2863 Arrangements for combining access network resources elements, e.g. channel bonding modem pooling H04L25/14; routing of packets H04L45/00; multichannel or multilink protocols H04L69/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 23/00 Apparatus or local circuits for systems other than those covered by groups H04L15/00 - H04L21/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2605 Symbol extensions, e.g. Zero Tail, Unique Word [UW]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2613 Structure of the reference signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2636 with FFT or DFT modulators, e.g. standard single-carrier frequency-division multiple access [SC-FDMA] transmitter or DFT spread orthogonal frequency division multiplexing [DFT-SOFDM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2666 Acquisition of further OFDM parameters, e.g. bandwidth, subcarrier spacing, or guard interval length
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

This disclosure describes methods, apparatus, and systems to increase the transmission data rate in wireless networks, for example, by using one or more Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) and/or channel bonding techniques. In one embodiment, the disclosure describes the use of Golay Sequence Sets (GSS) to define guard intervals (GIs) for single carrier (SC) single channel bonding and multiple input multiple output (MIMO) transmission. In various embodiments, the disclosure describes the design of guard interval sequence for 3 types of guard intervals having lengths that can be classified as short, medium, and long. In another embodiment, the disclosure defines the guard interval for single channel transmission channel bonding and for MIMO transmission.

Claims

1. A device, comprising:

at least one memory that stores computer-executable instructions; and

one or more processors configured to access the at least one memory, wherein at least one processor of the one or more processors is configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to;

cause to establish, by the device, one or more communication channels between the device and a second device;

determine data to send, by the device, to the second device;

select, by the device, one or more Golay sequences;

determine, by the device, one or more guard intervals on the one or more communication channels based on the one or more Golay sequences, wherein;

each of the one or more guard intervals is based at least in part on one or more delay vectors, and

each of the one or more delay vectors is based at least in part on a length of the one or more guard intervals;

cause to send, by the device, to the second device, the guard intervals; and

cause to send, by the device, to the second device, the data, wherein the data comprises one or more modulation symbols, and the guard intervals are interspersed between the one or more modulation symbols.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the one or more communication channels further comprise single carrier modulation with channel bonding.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein a first guard interval of the one or more guard intervals has a length based at least in part on a channel bonding factor.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein a first guard interval of the one or more guard intervals has a length that is one of 32 symbols, 64 symbols, or 128 symbols.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein a first Golay sequence of the one or more Golay sequences is based at least in part on one or more weight vectors.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the one or more communication channels comprises a multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) communication channel.

7. The device of claim 6, wherein the one or more communication channel comprises the MIMO communication channel, and further comprises a (i) single user (SU) MIMO transmission, or (ii) a multi-user (MU) MIMO transmission.

8. The device of claim 1, further comprising a transceiver configured to transmit and receive wireless signals and an antenna coupled to the transceiver.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

determine data to send, by the processor, to a second device;

cause to establish, by the processor, one or more communication channels on a network, between the device and the second device;

select, by the processor, one or more Golay sequences;

determine, by the processor, one or more guard intervals on the one or more communication channels based on the one or more Golay sequences;

cause to send, by the processor, to a second device, the guard intervals, wherein;

each of the one or more guard intervals is based at least in part on one or more delay vectors, and

each of the one or more delay vectors is based at least in part on a length of the one or more guard intervals; and

cause to send, by the processor, to the second device, the data, wherein the data comprises one or more modulation symbols, and the guard intervals are interspersed between the one or more modulation symbols.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the one or more communication channels further comprise single carrier modulation with channel bonding.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein a first guard interval of the one or more guard intervals has a length based at least in part on a channel bonding factor.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein a first guard interval of the one or more guard intervals has a length that is one of 32 symbols, 64 symbols, or 128 symbols.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the one or more communication channels comprises a multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) communication channel.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the one or more communication channels comprises the MIMO communication channel, and further comprises a (i) single user (SU) MIMO transmission, or (ii) a multi-user (MU) MIMO transmission.

15. A method comprising:

establishing one or more communication channels on a network, between a device and a second device;

receiving one or more guard intervals on the one or more communication channels, the guard intervals being based on one or more Golay sequences, wherein;

each of the one or more guard intervals is based at least in part on one or more delay vectors, and

each of the one or more delay vectors is based at least in part on a length of the one or more guard intervals;

receiving data on the one or more communication channels, wherein the data comprises one or more modulation symbols, and the guard intervals are interspersed between the one or more modulation symbols;

determining first information based at least in part on the received one or more guard intervals and the data; and

sending, to the second device, the first information.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the one or more communication channels further comprise single carrier modulation with channel bonding.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the one or more communication channels comprises a multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) communication channel.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the wherein the one or more communication channels comprises a MIMO communication channel, and further comprises a (i) single user (SU) MIMO transmission, or (ii) a multi-user (MU) MIMO transmission.