Device, system and method of wireless signal detection

• US 7,542,522 B2
• Filed: 09/20/2005
• Issued: 06/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Sorin, Simha, Finkelstein, Yuval, Ross, Rony
• Primary Examiner(s): Torres; Juan A
• Application Number:
  US11/229,543
• Publication Number:
  US 20070064842A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,351 Days
• Field of Search: 375/316, 455/270
• US Class Current: 375/316
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/1027 assessing signal quality or detecting noise/interference for the received signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

Some embodiments of the invention provide devices, systems and methods of wireless signal detection. For example, an apparatus in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes a detector to determine whether an incoming input includes a wireless communication signal intended for reception, based on an operation applied to a first auto-correlation value and a second auto-correlation value, wherein the first auto-correlation value represents a correlation between values of the incoming input at times separated by a first delay period, and wherein the second auto-correlation value represents correlation between values of the incoming input at times separated by a second, different, delay period; the first delay period is not an integer multiple of the second delay period, and the second delay period is not an integer multiple of the first delay period.

Claims

1. A detector comprising:

a master auto-correlator having an output auto-correlation value representing correlation between values of an input signal at times separated by a first delay period, T₁;

a slave auto-correlator having an output auto-correlation value representing correlation between values of the input signal at times separated by a second delay period, T₂, different from the first delay period;

a first logic circuit; and

a second logic circuit;

the output auto-correlation values of the master and slave auto-correlators are applied to the first and second logic circuits respectively whereby the outputs of the logic circuits indicate whether the input signal is a communication signal intended for reception.

2. The detector of claim 1 wherein the master and slave auto-correlators each has a comparator with a first threshold, TH1, applied to the comparator of the master auto-correlator and a second threshold, TH2, applied to the comparator of the slave auto-correlator where the output auto-correlation value of the master auto-correlator is a result of a comparison by its comparator between its auto-correlation value and the first threshold and the output auto-correlation value of the slave auto-correlator is a result of a comparison by its comparator between its auto-correlation value and the second threshold.

3. The detector of claim 1 wherein the first logic circuit is a logical AND gate with a first input connected to the output of the master auto-correlator and a second input connected to an output of logical NOT gate whose input is connected to the output of the slave auto-correlator and where the second logic circuit is a logical AND gate with a first input connected to the output of the master auto-correlator and a second input connected to the output of the slave auto-correlator.

4. The detector of claim 1 where the first delay period corresponds to a periodicity interval of a first wireless communication standard and the second delay period corresponds to a periodicity interval of a second communication standard.

5. The detector of claim 2 where the first delay period is not an integer multiple of the second delay period and the second delay period is not an integer multiple of the first delay period.

6. A method of detecting a communication signal intended for reception, the method comprising:

performing a first auto-correlation of an input signal at times separated by a first delay period, T₁, using a first auto-correlator, resulting in a first auto-correlation value; and

performing a second auto-correlation of the input signal at times separated by a second delay period, T₂, different form the first delay period, using a second auto-correlator, resulting in a second auto-correlation value; and

determining whether the input signal is intended for reception based on applying the first and second auto-correlation values to logical circuits.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the step of determining whether the input signal is intended for reception comprises applying the resulting auto-correlation values to one or more logical AND circuits whose outputs indicate whether the input signal is intended for reception.

8. The method of claim 6 wherein the step of performing a first auto-correlation comprises comparing an auto-correlation result of the first auto-correlation to a first threshold value to yield the first auto-correlation value and comparing an auto-correlation result of the second auto-correlation to a second threshold value to yield the second auto-correlation value.

9. The method of claim 6 wherein the first delay period is not an integer multiple of the second delay period and the second delay period is not an integer multiple of the first delay period.