Techniques for successive peak reduction crest factor reduction

• US 10,594,530 B2
• Filed: 05/29/2018
• Issued: 03/17/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apex AI Industries LLC, Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Geng, Jifeng, Wang, Feng, Kang, Insung
• Primary Examiner(s): Tadese, Berhanu
• Application Number:
  US15/991,759
• Publication Number:
  US 20190372817A1
• Time in Patent Office: 658 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 23/16 Spectrum analysis; Fourier analysis
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/0475 with means for limiting noise, interference or distortion H04B1/0483 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2621 Reduction thereof using phase offsets between subcarriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2624 by soft clipping
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/02 Arrangements for optimising operational condition

Abstract

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described methods, systems, and devices may include sampling an input signal to obtain one or more signal windows. An amplitude of a first sample within a first signal window of the one or more signal windows may be determined to exceed an amplitude threshold. A series of cancellation pulses may be combined with the first sample within the first signal window to obtain a reduced signal, the reduced signal including one or more reduced samples each having an amplitudes within the amplitude threshold. The series of cancellation pulses may be based on a characteristic of the first sample. The reduced signal may then be transmitted. The series of cancellation pulses may be based on, for example, an envelope of the first sample. In some cases, the series of cancellation pulses may be based on a phase of the first sample.

Claims

1. A method for wireless communication, comprising:

sampling an input signal to obtain one or more signal windows;

determining that an amplitude of a first sample within a first signal window of the one or more signal windows exceeds an amplitude threshold;

combining a series of cancellation pulses with the first sample within the first signal window to obtain a reduced signal, the reduced signal comprising one or more reduced samples with amplitudes within the amplitude threshold, wherein the series of cancellation pulses comprises a first cancellation pulse and a second cancellation pulse, the second cancellation pulse being based at least in part on a first reduction of the first sample using the first cancellation pulse, and wherein the series of cancellation pulses is based at least in part on a characteristic of the first sample; and

transmitting the reduced signal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the characteristic of the first sample comprises an envelope of the first sample.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the series of cancellation pulses is based at least in part on a phase of the first sample.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining that an amplitude of a second sample within a second signal window of the one or more signal windows of the reduced signal exceeds the amplitude threshold, wherein the series of cancellation pulses is based at least in part on a characteristic of the second sample.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein an envelope of the second sample is based at least in part on the first cancellation pulse, and the second cancellation pulse is based at least in part on an envelope of the second sample.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the series of cancellation pulses is based at least in part on a phase of the first sample and a phase of the second sample, wherein the phase of the first sample and the phase of the second sample are different.

7. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

determining that an amplitude of a third sample within a third signal window of the one or more signal windows exceeds the amplitude threshold, wherein the series of cancellation pulses is based at least in part on an envelope of the third sample.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the series of cancellation pulses comprises a recursive series of cancellation pulses.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein an amplitude of the each of the one or more reduced samples of the reduced signal is less than the amplitude threshold.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

applying a frequency domain rotation to the series of cancellation pulses within the first signal window to obtain a series of frequency shifted cancellation pulses, the series of frequency shifted cancellation pulses being frequency shifted relative to the input signal, wherein combining the series of cancellation pulses with the first sample comprises combining the series of frequency shifted cancellation pulses with the first sample.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

applying a first frequency domain rotation to the input signal to obtain a rotated input signal comprising the first sample.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

applying a second frequency domain rotation to the reduced signal.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the second frequency domain rotation is different than the first frequency domain rotation.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a length of the one or more signal windows based at least in part on a bandwidth of the input signal, a sampling rate of the input signal, a resource block allocation of the input signal, or a combination thereof.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the series of cancellation pulses is based at least in part on a Hanning window.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein a length of the Hanning window is the same as a length of a signal window of the one or more signal windows.

17. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

processing the reduced signal with a filter to obtain a filtered reduced signal.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

applying hard clipping to the filtered reduced signal to obtain an output signal to transmit the reduced signal.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein a peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of the output signal is within a target PAPR.

20. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

applying a trough conditioner to the input signal.

21. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:

means for sampling an input signal to obtain one or more signal windows;

means for determining that an amplitude of a first sample within a first signal window of the one or more signal windows exceeds an amplitude threshold;

means for combining a series of cancellation pulses with the first sample within the first signal window to obtain a reduced signal, the reduced signal comprising one or more reduced samples with amplitudes within the amplitude threshold, wherein the series of cancellation pulses comprises a first cancellation pulse and a second cancellation pulse, the second cancellation pulse being based at least in part on a first reduction of the first sample using the first cancellation pulse, and wherein the series of cancellation pulses is based at least in part on a characteristic of the first sample; and

means for transmitting the reduced signal.

22. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:

a processor;

memory in electronic communication with the processor; and

instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to;

sample an input signal to obtain one or more signal windows;

determine that an amplitude of a first sample within a first signal window of the one or more signal windows exceeds an amplitude threshold;

combine a series of cancellation pulses with the first sample within the first signal window to obtain a reduced signal, the reduced signal comprising one or more reduced samples with amplitudes within the amplitude threshold, wherein the series of cancellation pulses comprises a first cancellation pulse and a second cancellation pulse, the second cancellation pulse being based at least in part on a first reduction of the first sample using the first cancellation pulse, and wherein the series of cancellation pulses is based at least in part on a characteristic of the first sample; and

transmit the reduced signal.

23. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the characteristic of the first sample comprises an envelope of the first sample.

24. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the series of cancellation pulses is based at least in part on a phase of the first sample.

25. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the instructions are further executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

determine that an amplitude of a second sample within a second signal window of the one or more signal windows of the reduced signal exceeds the amplitude threshold, wherein the series of cancellation pulses is based at least in part on a characteristic of the second sample.

26. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the series of cancellation pulses comprises a recursive series of cancellation pulses.

27. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the instructions are further executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

apply a frequency domain rotation to the series of cancellation pulses within the first signal window to obtain a series of frequency shifted cancellation pulses, the series of frequency shifted cancellation pulses being frequency shifted relative to the input signal, wherein the instructions to combine the series of cancellation pulses with the first sample comprise instructions to combine the series of frequency shifted cancellation pulses with the first sample; and

apply a second frequency domain rotation to the series of cancellation pulses within a second signal window.

28. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the instructions are further executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

apply a first frequency domain rotation to the input signal to obtain a rotated input signal comprising the first sample; and

apply a second frequency domain rotation to the reduced signal.

29. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the series of cancellation pulses is based at least in part on a Hanning window.

30. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing code for wireless communication, the code comprising instructions executable by a processor to:

sample an input signal to obtain one or more signal windows;

determine that an amplitude of a first sample within a first signal window of the one or more signal windows exceeds an amplitude threshold;

combine a series of cancellation pulses with the first sample within the first signal window to obtain a reduced signal, the reduced signal comprising one or more reduced samples with amplitudes within the amplitude threshold, wherein the series of cancellation pulses comprises a first cancellation pulse and a second cancellation pulse, the second cancellation pulse being based at least in part on a first reduction of the first sample using the first cancellation pulse, and wherein the series of cancellation pulses is based at least in part on a characteristic of the first sample; and

transmit the reduced signal.