Scheme for spread spectrum multiple access coding

• US 6,331,997 B1
• Filed: 02/10/2000
• Issued: 12/18/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LinkAir Communications, Inc.
• Original Assignee: LinkAir Communications, Inc.
• Inventors: Li, Daoben
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): AL BESHRAWI, TONY
• Application Number:
  US09/501,666
• Time in Patent Office: 677 Days
• Field of Search: 375/130, 375/200, 375/207, 375/206
• US Class Current: 375/130
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/707 using direct sequence modulation
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7097 Interference-related aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2201/709709 Methods of preventing interference
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 13/004 Orthogonal
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 13/007 LAS, i.e. LA, LS and LAS codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 13/10 Code generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 13/14 Generation of codes with a zero correlation zone

Abstract

This invention publishes a spread spectrum multiple access coding technique applied in any wireless digital telecommunication system involving Code Division Multiple Access and spread spectrum technique. The group of basic pulses has normalized amplitudes and duration of 1 and polarity; the number of basic pulses is ascertained by practical factors; there is no equal interval between basic pulses on time axis, and asymmetry of pulses'"'"' positions is employed to achieve arranging coding. This coding scheme can control and minimize the side lobes of auto-correlation and cross-correlation functions, then simplify the design of a CDMA system, so a wireless digital telecommunication system with large capacity can be established effectively to solve the contradiction between ever increasing demand for telecommunication capacity and limited frequency resources.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

generating a plurality of pulses having polarity and a plurality of different time intervals between successive pulses;

generating a plurality of codewords from the plurality of pulses using the polarity of each pulse;

generating codewords such that a cross-correlation between any two codewords in the plurality of codewords has side lobes that have the values of zero, positive amplitude squared, and minus amplitude squared;

generating codewords that have a zero correlation window in an auto-correlation function; and

wherein the cross-correlation function has a magnitude equal to the amplitude squared and wherein a width of the zero correlation window equals to two times the shortest interval of the plurality of intervals.

2. The method of claim 1 including generating a set of spread-spectrum multiple access codes using a large-area code-division-multiple-access system.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein generating a plurality of pulses includes generating a plurality of pulses such that each interval between the plurality of pulses is unequal in interval time to the intervals between the other pulses.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein generating a plurality of pulses includes generating one time interval that is an odd number larger than the time of the shortest interval.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein generating a plurality of codewords includes causing each codeword to be different from the other codewords by assigning for each respective codeword a polarity to each pulse in the plurality of pulses.

6. The method of claim 1 including generating codewords that are orthogonal.

7. The method of claim 1 including generating codewords that are bi-orthogonal.

8. The method of claim 1 including generating codewords that are trans-orthogonal.

9. The method of claim 1 including spread-spectrum processing each pulse by a pulse compression code.

10. The method of claim 1 including spread-spectrum processing each pulse by a Barker sequence.

11. The method of claim 1 including spread-spectrum processing each pulse by linear frequency modulation.

12. The method of claim 11 further including time off-setting and overlapping each said codeword in the plurality of codewords.

13. The method of claim 1 further including using different orthogonal modulating frequencies for a plurality of time off-set codewords in the plurality of codewords.

14. A method comprising:

generating a plurality of pulses having polarity and a plurality of different time intervals between successive pulses;

generating a plurality of codewords from the plurality of pulses using the polarity of each pulse, and

spread-spectrum processing each pulse by a pulse compression code.

15. A method comprising:

generating a plurality of pulses having polarity and a plurality of different time intervals between successive pulses;

spread-spectrum processing each pulse by a pulse compression code;

generating a plurality of codewords from the plurality of pulses using the polarity of each pulse; and

time off-setting and overlapping each said codeword in the plurality of codewords.