Method for digital wireless communications

• US 7,492,833 B2
• Filed: 07/31/2007
• Issued: 02/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Matsuoka, Akihiko, Murakami, Yutaka, Orihashi, Masayuki, Takabayashi, Shinichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Ghayour, Mohammad H
• Assistant Examiner(s): Williams, Lawrence B
• Application Number:
  US11/831,383
• Publication Number:
  US 20070268987A1
• Time in Patent Office: 567 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

In a multivalue modulation type with one pilot symbol inserted for every 3 or more symbols, signal points of each one symbol immediately before and after a pilot symbol are modulated using a modulation type different from that for pilot symbols. In this way, it is possible to suppress deterioration of the accuracy in estimating the reference phase and amount of frequency offset by pilot symbols and improve the bit error rate characteristic in the signal to noise ratio in quasi-coherent detection with symbols whose symbol synchronization is not completely established.

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 one of an I component or a Q component of said specific symbols is zero.

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

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