Reference signal communication method and system
First Claim
1. A communications system including a transmitter and a receiver which utilizes a modulated reference signal in order to reduce the effects of non-linearity and stationary interference on the recovery of the reference signal, the communications system comprising:
- a transmitter including at least one subcarrier modulator for generating at least one data modulated signal;
said transmitter further including means for generating a modulated reference signal which varies from reference signal baud interval to reference signal baud interval in a predetermined manner based upon a sequence of reference values;
a summer in said transmitter for summing the modulated reference signal and the at least one data modulated signal to form an overall composite signal;
means for transmitting the overall composite signal from the transmitter to a receiver, the receiver including;
(i) means for cancelling the effect of the modulation of the reference signal thereby forming a substantially unmodulated reference signal;
(ii) a first accumulator for accumulating the unmodulated reference signal in order to determine a reference signal estimate; and
(iii) means for using said reference signal estimate for at least one of;
facilitating baud clock recovery;
facilitating carrier frequency recovery; and
equalization.
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Abstract
A method and system are provided for the transmission and reception of a varying reference signal together with a data-modulated signal in a communication system. The reference signal is modulated by multiplying it by a predetermined reference value sequence and is summed together with the data-modulated signal in the transmitter system. The reference signal and reference value sequence generators are identically embodied in both the transmitter and receiver systems. The receiver system determines an estimate of the transmitted reference signal by canceling the effect of the reference signal modulation. The estimated reference signal may be removed from the received signal prior to demodulation of the data-modulated signal by subtracting the unmodulated reference signal estimate, which is multiplied in the receiver system with the known reference value sequence.
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14 Claims
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1. A communications system including a transmitter and a receiver which utilizes a modulated reference signal in order to reduce the effects of non-linearity and stationary interference on the recovery of the reference signal, the communications system comprising:
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a transmitter including at least one subcarrier modulator for generating at least one data modulated signal; said transmitter further including means for generating a modulated reference signal which varies from reference signal baud interval to reference signal baud interval in a predetermined manner based upon a sequence of reference values; a summer in said transmitter for summing the modulated reference signal and the at least one data modulated signal to form an overall composite signal; means for transmitting the overall composite signal from the transmitter to a receiver, the receiver including; (i) means for cancelling the effect of the modulation of the reference signal thereby forming a substantially unmodulated reference signal; (ii) a first accumulator for accumulating the unmodulated reference signal in order to determine a reference signal estimate; and (iii) means for using said reference signal estimate for at least one of;
facilitating baud clock recovery;
facilitating carrier frequency recovery; and
equalization. - View Dependent Claims (2, 12, 13)
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3. A method of transmitting an overall composite signal to a receiver including a data modulated signal and a varying reference signal, the method comprising the steps of:
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modulating source message bits so as to generate the data modulated subcarrier signal; generating a modulated reference signal which varies from reference signal baud interval to reference signal baud interval in a predetermined manner as a function of a sequence of reference values thereby reducing the effects of non-linearity and stationary interference on the recovery of the reference signal in the receiver; summing the data modulated signal and the modulated reference signal to form an overall composite signal; and transmitting the overall composite signal to the receiver. - View Dependent Claims (4)
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5. A method of receiving an overall composite signal including a modulated reference signal and a data modulated signal, the reference signal having been modulated in a corresponding transmitter, the method comprising the steps of:
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receiving the overall composite signal including the data modulated signal, and the modulated reference signal which varies from reference signal baud interval to reference signal baud interval in a predetermined manner; substantially cancelling the effect of the modulation in the reference signal so as to form a substantially unmodulated reference signal; accumulating the unmodulated reference signal in order to determine a reference signal estimate; and using the reference signal estimate to facilitate at least one of equalization, carrier recovery, and baud clock recovery thereby reducing the effects of at least one of non-linearity and stationary interference on the recovery of the reference signal in the receiver. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7)
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8. A receiver for receiving an overall composite signal including a varying reference signal and at least one data modulated signal, the reference signal varying from reference signal baud interval to reference signal baud interval in a predetermined manner as determined by a sequence of reference values in a corresponding transmitter, the receiver comprising:
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means for receiving the overall composite signal including the varying reference signal and a data modulated signal; means for cancelling the effect of the sequence of references values in the reference signal so as to form a non-varying reference signal; an accumulator for accumulating the non-varying reference signal in order to determine a reference signal estimate; and means for using the reference signal estimate for one of clock synchronization and equalization. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11)
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14. A method of receiving and processing a modulated reference signal from a transmitter, the method comprising the steps of:
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receiving the modulated reference signal which varies from reference signal baud interval to reference signal baud interval as determined by a sequence of reference values in the transmitter; substantially cancelling the effect of the modulation of the reference signal so as to form a substantially unmodulated reference signal; accumulating the substantially unmodulated reference signal in order to determine a reference signal estimate thereby reducing the effect of non-linearity on the recovery of the reference signal; and using the determined reference signal estimate for at least one of equalization, synchronization, and channel characteristic determination.
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