Wireless network with enhanced data rate

• US 6,928,123 B2
• Filed: 04/12/2001
• Issued: 08/09/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Zehavi, Ephraim
• Primary Examiner(s): TSE, YOUNG TOI
• Application Number:
  US09/835,284
• Publication Number:
  US 20020040383A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,580 Days
• Field of Search: 375/261, 375/265, 375/298, 375/308, 341/61, 341/143, 714/759, 714/786, 714/794, 332/103
• US Class Current: 375/298
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00132 in a digital photofinishing system, i.e. a system where digital photographic images undergo typical photofinishing processing, e.g. printing ordering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00137 Transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00148 Storage information retrieval G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00169 Digital image input
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00281 with a telecommunication apparatus, e.g. a switched network of teleprinters for the distribution of text-based information, a selective call terminal details of transmission H04N1/00095; establishing a communication with one of a facsimile machine or another apparatus sharing a single line H04N1/32704; interfacing cordless telephone terminals with an accessory to increase the functionality of user interface H04M1/72409
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00312 with a digital transmission apparatus, e.g. a switched network of teleprinters for the distribution of text-based information, SMS or ISDN device transmitting or receiving via a computer, e.g. using e-mail, a computer network or the internet H04N1/00214; transmission of digital information H04L
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00315 with a radio transmission apparatus with a cordless telephone H04N1/00305; systems or arrangements for the transmission of a picture signal specially adapted for transmission via radio H04N1/00103; H04N1/00307 takes precedence; radio transmission systems H04B7/00; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/14 Spectrum sharing arrangements between different networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/14 using intermediate storage
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/22 Negotiating communication rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/20 Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

A high-speed transmitter for digital data having a variable data rare, the transmitter comprising a convolutional encoder, adapted to generate, for each group of k input bits in a bitstream, n coded output bits, such that k and n are integers, n equal to or greater than k, and at least one of k and n is variable responsive to the variable data rate of the transmitter; and a modulator, coupled to map the output bits generated by the encoder to a constellation of M symbols for transmission by the transmitter, M an integer, which is variable responsive to the variable data rate of the transmitter; and wherein for a given rate Rs of transmission of the symbols by the transmitter, the variable data rate Rb is given by Rb=Rs*log 2(M)*Rc, wherein Rc is a code rate equal to k/n.

Claims

1. A high-speed transmitter for digital data having a variable data rate, the transmitter comprising:

a convolutional encoder, adapted to generate, for each group of k input bits in a bitstream, n coded output bits, such that k and n are integers, n equal to or greater than k, and at least one of k and n is variable responsive to the variable data rate of the transmitter;

a modulator, coupled to map the output bits generated by the encoder to a constellation of M symbols for transmission by the transmitter, M an integer, which is variable responsive to the variable data rate of the transmitter; and

wherein for a given rate Rs of transmission of the symbols by the transmitter, the variable data rate Rb is given by Rb=Rs*log 2(M)*Rc, wherein Rc is a code rate equal to k/n.

2. A transmitter according to claim 1, wherein the rate of transmission of the symbols is substantially fixed at a standard rate.

3. A transmitter according to claim 2, wherein the standard rate is substantially equal to 11 million symbols per second.

4. A transmitter according to claim 1, wherein the constellation comprises a phase-shift-keyed constellation of order M.

5. A transmitter according to claim 4, wherein after mapping the output bits to the symbols, the modulator is adapted to rotate a phase of the symbols in accordance with a pseudo-random cover function.

6. A transmitter according to claim 1, wherein the encoder comprises a sequence of delay stages coupled to receive the input bits in a serial stream, and a plurality of adders, which are coupled to receive the input bits from the delay stages and to add the input bits together so as to generate at least two of the coded output bits in parallel.

7. A transmitter according to claim 6, wherein the modulator is configured to select the coded output bits from the encoder to be mapped to each of the symbols responsive to the variable data rate.

8. A method for variable-rate, high-speed transmission of digital data, comprising:

specifying a first bit rate at which the data are to be transmitted by a transmitter;

applying convolutional encoding to the data so as to generate, for each group of k input bits in a bitstream, n coded output bits, such that k and n are integers, n equal to or greater than k;

modulating the output bits to generate a constellation of M symbols, M a variable integer, for transmission of the modulated data at a given symbol rate and at the first bit rate;

specifying a second bit rate at which the data are to be transmitted, different from the first bit rate;

changing a value of at least one of k, n and M, so that after applying the convolutional encoding and modulating the output bits using the changed value, the transmitter transmits the modulated data at the given symbol rate and at the second bit rate; and

wherein for the given symbol rate Rs, changing the value of at least one of k, n end M comprises changing the value so that the second bit rare Rb is given by Rb=RS*log 2(M)*Rc, wherein Rc is a code rate equal to k/n.

9. A method according to claim 8, wherein the symbol rate is substantially equal to 11 million symbols per second.

10. A method according to claim 8, wherein modulating the output bits comprises applying phase shift keying of order M to generate the symbols.

11. A method according to claim 10, and comprising rotating a phase of the symbols in accordance with a pseudo-random cover function.

12. A method according to claim 8, wherein applying the convolutional encoding comprises passing the input bits in a serial stream through a sequence of delay stages, and adding the input bits from the delay stages together so as to generate at least two of the coded output bits in parallel.

13. A method according to claim 12, wherein modulating the output bits comprises selecting the coded output bits to be mapped to each of the symbols responsive to the variable-rate.