Data rate detection device and method for a mobile communication system

• US 6,792,041 B1
• Filed: 07/10/2000
• Issued: 09/14/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Min Goo, Lee, Young-Hwan, Choi, Soon-Jae, Kim, Beong-Jo, Kim, Se-Hyoung
• Primary Examiner(s): VO, DON NGUYEN
• Application Number:
  US09/613,114
• Time in Patent Office: 1,527 Days
• Field of Search: 375/225, 370/252, 370/395.64, 370/395.65, 379/93.08, 702/60, 702/62, 704/214, 704/219, 704/221, 704/229
• US Class Current: 375/225
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0262 Arrangements for detecting the data rate of an incoming signal

Abstract

A data rate detecting device detects a data rate for a received signal based on a variation of the energy for the respective received signals between the two adjacent intervals upon failure to receive information about the data rate, and performs channel decoding of the detected data rate information. First, the data rate detecting device divides an interval defined as between a lowest and highest one of a plurality of given data rates into m discriminating intervals. Then, the device calculates a difference between an average energy of received signals up to an i'"'"'th discriminating interval and an average energy of received signals for an (i+1)'"'"'th discriminating interval, wherein i is an integer is less than m. If the difference between the average energies is greater than or equal to a threshold value, the device determines that the received signal in the (i+1)'"'"'th discriminating interval is transmitted at a data rate corresponding to the i'"'"'th discriminating interval.

Claims

1. A method for detecting a data rate in a mobile communication system, comprising the steps of:

dividing an interval defined as between a lowest and highest one of a plurality of predetermined data rates into m discriminating intervals, wherein m is an integer; and

calculating a difference between an average energy of received signals up to an i'"'"'th discriminating interval and an average energy of received signals for an (i+1)'"'"'th discriminating interval, wherein i is an integer and is less than m; and

when the difference between the average energies is greater than or equal to a threshold value, determining that the received signal in the (i+1)'"'"'th discriminating interval is transmitted at a data rate corresponding to the i'"'"'th discriminating interval.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the threshold value is defined as A²/2, wherein A represents a transmission power level of the received signal up to the i'"'"'th discriminating interval.

3. A device for detecting a data rate in a mobile communication system, in which an interval is defined as between a lowest and highest one of a plurality of given data rates being divided into m discriminating intervals, wherein m is an integer, the device comprising:

an energy calculator for calculating an average energy of received signals up to an i'"'"'th discriminating interval and an average energy of received signals for an (i+1)'"'"'th discriminating interval, wherein i is an integer and is less than m;

an energy differentiator for calculating a difference between the average energy of received signals up to the i'"'"'th discriminating interval and the average energy of received signals for the (i+1)'"'"'th discriminating interval; and

a data rate decision block for determining a data rate corresponding to the i'"'"'th discriminating interval as a data rate for the received signal in the (i+1)'"'"'th discriminating interval, when the difference between the average energies calculated in the energy calculator is greater than a threshold value.

4. The device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the threshold value is defined as A²/2, wherein A represents a transmission power level of the received signal up to the i'"'"'th discriminating interval.

5. A method for detecting a data rate in a mobile communication system, in which a base station has previously provided a mobile station with information about a plurality of data rates variably serviceable and the mobile station detects one of the plurality of data rates as a data rate for a received signal, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) dividing an interval defined as between a lowest and highest one of the plurality of data rates into m discriminating intervals, wherein m is an integer; and

(b) calculating an average energy of a received signal corresponding to a first discriminating interval out of the m discriminating intervals;

(c) calculating an average energy of a received signal corresponding to a second discriminating interval next to the first discriminating interval;

(d) calculating a difference between the average energies obtained in steps (b) and (c); and

(e) estimating that the received signal for the second discriminating interval is transmitted at a data rate corresponding to the received signal for the first discriminating interval, when the difference between the average energies is greater than or equal to a threshold value, or

setting the first discriminating interval as the next discriminating interval when the difference between the average energies is greater than or equal to the threshold value,

the steps (b) to (e) for the received signals up to the newly set discriminating interval being repeated until the difference exceeds the threshold value.