Method and apparatus for adaptive signaling in a QAM communication system
First Claim
1. An apparatus for providing adaptive signaling in a communication system, the apparatus having a transmitter comprising:
- a signaling bit encoder configured to selectively puncture, based on a log-likelihood ratio, one or more bits of a data symbol comprised of a plurality of bits with at least one signaling bit representing signaling information to achieve a punctured data symbol; and
a mapper configured to modulate the punctured data symbol according to a predetermined mapping scheme having predetermined characteristics, the transmitter configured to transmit the modulated punctured data symbol.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus to adaptively puncture bits within QAM modulated data symbols transmitted in a communication system in order to effect a signaling channel. The method and apparatus utilize inherent characteristics of a particular mapping scheme for the QAM constellation to selectively puncture particular bits within a data symbol with signaling information and predetermined binary values to selectively increase the log-likelihood ratio gains of those particular bits punctured with the signaling information. The log-likelihood ratios are used to obtain the signaling information and, thus, increasing the gain of the log-likelihood ratios affords greater reliability for the signaling information without increasing the required system resources.
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1. An apparatus for providing adaptive signaling in a communication system, the apparatus having a transmitter comprising:
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a signaling bit encoder configured to selectively puncture, based on a log-likelihood ratio, one or more bits of a data symbol comprised of a plurality of bits with at least one signaling bit representing signaling information to achieve a punctured data symbol; and
a mapper configured to modulate the punctured data symbol according to a predetermined mapping scheme having predetermined characteristics, the transmitter configured to transmit the modulated punctured data symbol. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A receiver configured for receiving, decoding and demodulating a data symbol encoded by a transmitter, which transmitter selectively punctures one or more bit locations of the data symbol comprised of a plurality of bits with at least one signaling bit representing signaling information to achieve a punctured data symbol and modulates the punctured data symbol according to a predetermined mapping scheme having predetermined characteristics, the transmitter configured to transmit the modulated punctured data symbol to the receiver, wherein the receiver comprises:
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a symbol-to-log-likelihood ratio calculator configured to receive the transmitted punctured data symbol and calculate a log-likelihood ratio for each bit of the received punctured data symbol; and
a signaling channel decoder configured to extract the signaling information from the at least one signaling bit in the punctured data symbol based on the calculated log-likelihood ratio of the at least one signaling bit. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method for providing signaling in a communication system comprising steps of:
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puncturing one or more particular bits of a data symbol comprised of a plurality of bits with at least one signaling bit representing signaling information to achieve a punctured data symbol, wherein the puncturing is based on a log-likelihood ratio;
modulating the punctured data symbol according to a predetermined mapping scheme having predetermined characteristics; and
transmitting the modulated punctured data symbol. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A method for receiving data, wherein one or more particular bits of a data symbol comprised of a plurality of bits are punctured with one or more signaling bits representing signaling information to achieve a punctured data symbol, wherein the punctured data symbol is modulated according to a predetermined mapping scheme having predetermined characteristics to produce a modulated data symbol, and wherein the method comprises steps of:
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receiving the modulated data symbol;
demodulating the modulated data symbol by calculating the log-likelihood ratio for each bit of the punctured data symbol based on the predetermined mapping scheme; and
decoding the signaling bits within the demodulated data symbol. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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