Digital communication system

• US 4,849,990 A
• Filed: 02/04/1987
• Issued: 07/18/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fumio Ikegami, Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fumio Ikegami, Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Sasada, Masaaki, Ikegami, Fumio, Yoshida, Susumu, Ariyavisitakul, Sirikiat, Takeuchi, Tsutomu
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Assistant Examiner(s): Huseman, Marianne
• Application Number:
  US07/030,826
• Time in Patent Office: 895 Days
• Field of Search: 375/38, 375/40, 375/100, 375/102, 455/52, 455/65
• US Class Current: 375/267
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/02 by diversity reception

Abstract

The present invention provides two branches of a base station transmitter and a base station receiver, respectively, and inserts a delay circuit for ensuring a delay time difference between D and U waves required to obtain the best bit error rate for a DSK system, BPSK-RZ system, QPSK-RZ system or the like, into each system of the transmitter and the receiver, respectively, or into either the transmitter or the receiver of each system, thereby efficiently improving the bit error rate.

Claims

1. A digital communication system for transmitting to a receiving side digital signals comprising first and second predetermined information symbols digitized in a predetermined time slot generated from a signal source, comprising:

two signal transmission paths each having substantially different transmission time intervals between said signal source and an output of said receiving side,

delay means inserted into at least one of said signal transmission paths for setting the delay time of information signals being transmitted via said two signal transmission paths at a predetermined fraction of said time slot,

modulation means responsive to said digital signals for generating said information symbols by shifting carrier wave signal phases continuously twice by Δ

θ

/2 per 1/2 time slot with respect to first information symbols and continuously twice by -Δ

θ

/2 per 1/2 time slot with respect to second information symbols, and

demodulation means for combining said information signals received via said two signal transmission paths and for demodulating the original digital signal by delay detection,

whereby a bit error rate of said system is brought near a minimum relative to said predetermined time slot.

2. A digital communication system in accordance with claim 1, wherein

said two paths are cross-polarized with each other.

3. A digital communication system in accordance with claim 1, wherein

said two transmission paths are paths through two antennas deviating in position from each other.

4. A digital communication system in accordance with claim 1, wherein

said two transmission paths are paths through two antennas different in antenna propagation pattern from each other.

5. A digital communication system in accordance with claim 1, wherein

said two transmission paths are formed by two or three combinations of paths cross polarized with each other, paths through two antennas deviating in position from each other and paths through two antennas different in antenna propagation pattern from each other.

6. A digital communication system for exchanging between a base station and a mobile station digital signals comprising first and second predetermined information signals digitized in a predetermined time slot generating from a signal source, comprising:

two signal transmission paths each having substantially different delay time intervals between said base station and said mobile station,

delay means inserted into at least one of said two signal transmission paths for setting the delay time of information signals being transmitted via said two signal transmission paths at a predetermined fraction of said time slot,

modulation means responsive to said digital signals for generating said information signals by shifting carrier wave signal phases continuously twice by Δ

θ

/2 per 1/2 time slot with respect to first information symbols and continuously twice by -Δ

θ

/2 per 1/2 time slot with respect to second information symbols, and

demodulation means for combining said information signals received via said two signal transmission paths and for demodulating the original digital signal be delay detection,

whereby a bit error rate of said system is brought near a minimum relative to said predetermined time slot.

7. A digital communication system in accordance with claim 6, wherein

two antennas comprise the transmission system and and said two antennas forming the receiving system are respectively formed by two antennas orthogonally polarized with each other.

8. A digital communication system in accordance with claim 7, wherein

said two antennas forming the transmission system and said two antennas forming said receiving system are respectively formed by antennas having space diversity effects different in position from each other.

9. A digital communication system in accordance with claim 7, wherein

said antennas forming said transmission system and said antennas forming said receiving system are respectively formed by antennas having different antenna propagation pattern diversity effectes.

10. A digital communication system in accordance with claim 7, wherein

said antennas forming said transmission system and said antennas forming said receiving system are antennas aving diversity effects formed by a plurality of combinations of antennas having crossed polarization, antennas deviating in position from each other and antennas different in antenna pattern from each other.

11. A digital communication system in accordance with claim 7, wherein

said antenna in said first signal transmission path in said transmission system is commonly employed with said antenna in said first signal transmission path in said receiving system.

12. A digital communication system for transmitting to a receiving side digital signals comprising predetermined first and second information symbols digitized in a predetermined time slot generated form a signal source, comprising:

two signal transmission paths each having substantially different transmission time intervals between said signal source and an output of said receiving side,

delay means inserted into at least one of said signal transmission paths for setting the delay time of information signals being transmitted through said two signal transmission paths at a predetermined fraction of said time slot,

modulation means responsive to said digital signals for generating information signals by shifting carrier wave signal phases twice by Δ

θ

/2 per 1/2 time slot based on a π

/2 DSK system with respect to binary information symbols, and

demodulation means for combining said information signals received via said two signal transmission paths and for demodulating the original digital signal by delay detection,

whereby a bit error rate of said system is brought near a minimum relative to said predetermined time slot.

13. A digital communication system for transmitting to a receiving side digital signals comprising first and second predetermined information symbols digitized in a predetermined time slot generated from a signal source, comprising:

two signal transmission paths each having substantially different transmission time intervals between said signal source and an output of said receiving side,

delay means inserted into at least one of said signal transmission paths for setting the delay time of information signals being transmitted via said two signal transmission paths at a predetermined fraction of said time slot,

modulation means responsive to said digital signals for generating information signals by shifting carrier wave signal phases twice by π

/4 based on a π

/4 DSK system with respect to binary information symbols, and

demodulation means for combining said information signals received through said two signal transmission paths and for demodulating the original digital signal by delay detection,

whereby a bit error rate of said system is brought near a minimum relative to said predetermined time slot.

14. A digital communication system for transmitting to a receiving side digital signals comprising first and second predetermined information symbols digitized in a predetermined time slot generated from a signal source, comprising:

two signal transmission paths each having substantially different transmission time intervals between said signal source and an output of said receiving side,

delay means inserted into at least one of said signal transmission paths for setting the delay time of information signals being transmitted through said two signal transmission paths at a predetermined fraction of said time slot,

modulation means responsive to said digital signals for generating BPSK-RZ signals identical in amplitude and phase to BPSK signals in a first T/2 intervals of respective time slots T and effectively 0 in amplitude n a second T/2 intervals, with respect to binary information symbols, based on a BPSK-RZ system, and ion

demodulation means for combining said informat signals received through said two signal transmission paths and for demodulating the original digital signal by delay detection,

whereby a bit error rate of said system is brought near a minimum relative to said predetermined time slot.

15. A digital communication system for transmitting to a receiving side digital signals comprising first and second predetermined information symbols digitized in a predetermined time slot generated from a signal source, comprising:

two signal transmission paths each having substantially different transmission time intervals between said signal source and an output of said receiving side,

delay means inserted into at least one of said signal transmission paths for setting the delay time of information signals being transmitted via said two signal transmission paths at a predetermined fraction of said time slot,

modulation means responsive to said digital signals for generating QPSK-RZ signals identical in amplitude and phase to QPSK signals in first T/2 intervals of respective time slots T and effectively 0 in amplitude in second T/2 intervals, with respect to binary information symbols, based on a QPSK-RZ system, and

demodulation means for combining information signals received through said two signal transmission paths and for demodulating the original digital signal by delay detection,

whereby a bit error rate of said system is brought near a minimum relative to said predetermined time slot.