Amplitude and phase matching for layered modulation reception

• US 7,474,710 B2
• Filed: 10/03/2003
• Issued: 01/06/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DIRECTV, LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc. (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Oh, Joungheon, Shum, Kenneth, Chen, Ernest C., Chen, Jeng-Hong
• Primary Examiner(s): Bayard; Emmanuel
• Application Number:
  US10/532,524
• Publication Number:
  US 20060018406A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,922 Days
• Field of Search: 375/316, 375/340, 375/341, 375/324
• US Class Current: 375/316
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/18523 Satellite systems for providing broadcast service to terrestrial stations, i.e. broadcast satellite service arrangements specially adapted for satellite broadcast receiving H04H40/90; picture transmission via satellite H04N1/00103; television transmission via satellite H04N7/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/51 specially adapted for satellite broadcast systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 40/90 specially adapted for satellite broadcast receiving
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/07 characterised by processes or methods for the generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/183 Multiresolution systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/3488 Multiresolution systems

Abstract

An apparatus and method for receiving layered modulation signals is disclosed. A typical method includes receiving a layered modulation signal including an upper layer signal and a lower layer signal, demodulating and decoding the upper layer signal from the received layered modulation signal, estimating an upper layer amplitude factor and an upper layer phase factor from the received layered modulation signal. A substantially ideal upper layer signal is reconstructed from the demodulated and decoded upper layer signal including matching an ideal amplitude and an ideal phase by applying the upper layer amplitude factor and the upper layer phase factor to the reconstructed ideal upper layer signal. Finally, the reconstructed ideal upper layer signal is subtracted from the received layered modulation signal to produce the lower layer signal for processing.

Claims

1. A method of receiving layered modulation signals, comprising:

receiving a layered modulation signal including an upper layer signal and a lower layer signal;

demodulating and decoding the upper layer signal from the received layered modulation signal;

estimating an upper layer amplitude factor and an upper layer phase factor from the received layered modulation signal;

reconstructing a substantially ideal upper layer signal from the demodulated and decoded upper layer signal including matching an ideal amplitude and an ideal phase by applying the upper layer amplitude factor and the upper layer phase factor to the reconstructed ideal upper layer signal;

subtracting the reconstructed ideal upper layer signal from the received layered modulation signal to produce the lower layer signal for processing.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the layered modulation signal comprises separate non-coherent modulated signal layers.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the layered modulation signal comprises a layered multiple phase shift keyed (PSK) signal.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the upper layer phase factor and the upper layer amplitude factor are combined to form a complex multiplying factor, which is the complex correlation of a received signal vector and a reconstructed signal vector and normalized by a power of the reconstructed signal vector.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the complex multiplying factor is mathematically expressed by z_LS=(X^HX)⁻

1X^HR, where R is the received signal vector and X is the reconstructed signal vector.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the upper layer phase factor is estimated from a mean vector of a distribution of the received layered modulation signal relative to one or more nodes of the upper layer signal.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the upper layer phase factor is estimated for a plurality of nodes of the upper layer signal in combination.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the upper layer amplitude factor is estimated from a mean vector of a distribution of the received layered modulation signal relative to one or more nodes of the upper layer signal.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the upper layer amplitude factor is estimated for a plurality of nodes of the upper layer signal in combination.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the upper layer amplitude factor is estimated separately for one or more of a plurality of nodes of the upper layer signal.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the upper layer amplitude factor and the upper layer phase factor are further estimated from a transmission characteristic map.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the transmission characteristic map represents a non-linear distortion map of an amplifier characteristic of the transmission path.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the transmission characteristic map comprises an AM-AM map.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the transmission characteristic map comprises an AM-PM map.

15. An apparatus for receiving layered modulation signals, comprising:

a signal processor for demodulating and decoding an upper layer signal from a received layered modulation signal wherein the received signal includes the upper layer signal and a lower layer signal;

an estimator for estimating an upper layer amplitude factor and an upper layer phase factor from the received layered modulation signal;

a synthesizer for reconstructing a substantially ideal upper layer signal from the demodulated and decoded upper layer signal including matching an ideal amplitude and an ideal phase by applying the upper layer amplitude factor and the upper layer phase factor to the reconstructed ideal upper layer signal; and

a subtractor for subtracting the reconstructed ideal upper layer signal from the received layered modulation signal to produce the lower layer signal for processing.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the layered modulation signal comprises separate non-coherent modulated signal layers.

17. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the layered modulation signal comprises a layered multiple phase shift keyed (PSK) signal.

18. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the upper layer phase factor and the upper layer amplitude factor are combined in a complex multiplying factor, which is the complex correlation of a received signal vector and a reconstructed signal vector and normalized by a power of the reconstructed signal vector.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the complex multiplying factor is mathematically expressed by z_LS=(X^HX)⁻

X^HR, where R is a received signal vector and X is a reconstructed signal vector.

20. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the upper layer phase factor is estimated from a mean vector of a distribution of the received layered modulation signal relative to one or more nodes of the upper layer signal.

21. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the upper layer phase factor is estimated for a plurality of nodes of the upper layer signal in combination.

22. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the upper layer amplitude factor is estimated from a mean vector of a distribution of the received layered modulation signal relative to one or more nodes of the upper layer signal.

23. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the upper layer amplitude factor is estimated for a plurality of nodes of the upper layer signal in combination.

24. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the upper layer amplitude factor is estimated separately for one or more of a plurality of nodes of the upper layer signal.

25. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the upper layer amplitude factor and the upper layer phase factor are further estimated from a transmission characteristic map.

26. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the transmission characteristic map represents a non-linear distortion map of an amplifier characteristic of the transmission path.

27. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the transmission characteristic map comprises an AM-AM map.

28. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the transmission characteristic map comprises an AM-PM map.