Apparatus and method for digital wireless communications

• US 7,359,454 B2
• Filed: 02/20/2004
• Issued: 04/15/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Tianma Microelectronics Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Murakami, Yutaka, Takabayashi, Shinichiro, Orihashi, Masayuki, Matsuoka, Akihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Ghayour, Mohammed
• Assistant Examiner(s): WILLIAMS, LAWRENCE B
• Application Number:
  US10/781,839
• Publication Number:
  US 20040161054A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,516 Days
• Field of Search: 375/298, 375/261, 375/223, 375/347, 375/152, 370/335, 370/342, 370/503, 455/522
• US Class Current: 375/298
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2027/0024 at the receiver end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2027/0087 Out-of-band signals, (e.g. pilots)
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2027/0093 Intermittant signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/0008 arrangements for allowing a transmitter or receiver to use more than one type of modulation negotiating modulation type for two-way transmission paths H04L5/1453
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/206 using a pair of orthogonal carriers, e.g. quadrature carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/34 Amplitude- and phase-modulated carrier systems, e.g. quadrature-amplitude modulated carrier systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/3405 Modifications of the signal space to increase the efficiency of transmission, e.g. reduction of the bit error rate, bandwidth, or average power
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/3455 in order to facilitate carrier recovery at the receiver end, e.g. by transmitting a pilot or by using additional signal points to allow the detection of rotations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 7/04 Speed or phase control by synchronisation signals H04L7/0075 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 7/06 the synchronisation signals differing from the information signals in amplitude, polarity or frequency or length

Abstract

A digital wireless communication apparatus includes a first modulator that modulates a pilot symbol according to a first modulation scheme, and a second modulator that modulates specific symbols according to a second modulation scheme, the second modulation scheme being different than the first modulation scheme. A third modulator modulates symbols other than the pilot symbol and the specific symbols according to a third modulation scheme, the third modulation scheme being different than the first and second modulation schemes. A timing controller controls timing such that the specific symbols are inserted immediately before and after the pilot symbol. The signal points of the specific symbols are allocated on an imaginary line that connects the origin point and a signal point of the pilot symbol on a signal space diagram.

Claims

1. A digital wireless communication method comprising:

modulating a pilot symbol according to a first modulation scheme;

modulating specific symbols according to a second modulation scheme, the second modulation scheme being different than the first modulation scheme;

modulating symbols other than said pilot symbol and said specific symbols according to a third modulation scheme, the third modulation scheme being different than the first and second modulation schemes; and

order controlling such that said specific symbols are inserted immediately before and after said pilot symbol;

wherein signal points of the specific symbols are allocated on an imaginary line that connects the origin point and a signal point of the pilot symbol on a signal space diagram; and

wherein the signal point of the pilot symbol is allocated on an in-phase axis or a quadrature axis.

2. The digital wireless communication method according to claim 1, wherein said third modulation scheme is selected from a 64 QAM modulation scheme, a 16 QAM modulation scheme, and a QPSK modulation scheme.

3. The digital wireless communication method according to claim 1, wherein said pilot symbol signal point has an amplitude greater than the maximum amplitude of signal points modulated according to the third modulation scheme in the signal space diagram.

4. A digital wireless communication apparatus comprising:

a first modulator that modulates a pilot symbol according to a first modulation scheme;

a second modulator that modulates specific symbols according to a second modulation scheme, the second modulation scheme being different than the first modulation scheme;

a third modulator that modulates symbols other than said pilot symbol and said specific symbols according to a third modulation scheme, the third modulation scheme being different than the first and second modulation schemes; and

an order controller that controls order such that said specific symbols are inserted immediately before and after said pilot symbol;

wherein signal points of the specific symbols are allocated on an imaginary line that connects the origin point and a signal point of the pilot symbol on a signal space diagram; and

wherein the signal point of the pilot symbol is allocated on an in-phase axis or a quadrature axis.

5. The digital wireless communication apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said third modulation scheme is selected from a 64 QAM modulation scheme, a 16 QAM modulation scheme, and a QPSK modulation scheme.

6. The digital wireless communication apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said pilot symbol signal point has an amplitude greater than the maximum amplitude of signal points modulated according to the third modulation scheme in the signal space diagram.