Increased capacity communications for OFDM-based wireless communications systems/methods/devices
First Claim
1. A communications method comprising:
- forming a data vector comprising N data elements;
N≧
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subjecting the data vector to a transformation and forming a transformed vector responsive to said subjecting;
inserting at least one pilot symbol into the transformed vector and forming an augmented vector responsive to said inserting; and
transmitting by a transmitter the augmented vector;
wherein subjecting the data vector to a transformation occurs prior to said inserting at least one pilot symbol into the transformed vector and forming an augmented vector and wherein transmitting by a transmitter the augmented vector comprises transmitting by the transmitter simultaneously in time a plurality of sub-carriers;
wherein the transformation distributes an element/component/dimension of the data vector over a plurality of elements/components/dimensions of the transformed vector; and
wherein an element/component/dimension of the transformed vector comprises a superposition of values of a plurality of elements/components/dimensions of the data vector.
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Abstract
Numerous embodiments are provided that may be used to provide enhanced capacity and/or Quality-of-Service for OFDM-based systems such as LTE and/or WiMAX. Various service/device modes and/or applications are also provided. According to embodiments of the invention, a transformation may be performed on a data vector by a transmitter, prior to the transmitter transmitting the data vector, to distribute elements of the data vector over an available frequency space, thus providing robustness to channel anomalies such as fading and/or interference. The transformation may be based upon a Fourier transform or a truncated Butler matrix. At a receiver, an inverse of the transformation may be applied to recover data. The receiver and/or transmitter may be configured with an antenna array that may comprise a two-dimensional lattice of antenna elements, and may further be configured to estimate a number of resolvable signal paths and to form a spatial filter/rake that is matched to the number of resolvable signal paths. Embodiments relating to architectures, systems, methods, devices, software, firmware and/or computer program products are provided.
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48 Claims
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1. A communications method comprising:
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forming a data vector comprising N data elements;
N≧
2;subjecting the data vector to a transformation and forming a transformed vector responsive to said subjecting; inserting at least one pilot symbol into the transformed vector and forming an augmented vector responsive to said inserting; and transmitting by a transmitter the augmented vector; wherein subjecting the data vector to a transformation occurs prior to said inserting at least one pilot symbol into the transformed vector and forming an augmented vector and wherein transmitting by a transmitter the augmented vector comprises transmitting by the transmitter simultaneously in time a plurality of sub-carriers; wherein the transformation distributes an element/component/dimension of the data vector over a plurality of elements/components/dimensions of the transformed vector; and wherein an element/component/dimension of the transformed vector comprises a superposition of values of a plurality of elements/components/dimensions of the data vector. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A communications system comprising a transmitter that is configured:
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to form a data vector comprising N data elements;
N≧
2;to subject the data vector to a transformation and to form a transformed vector responsive to having subjected the data vector to the transformation; to insert at least one pilot symbol into the transformed vector and to form an augmented vector responsive to having inserted the at least one pilot symbol into the transformed vector; and to transmit the augmented vector; wherein the transmitter is configured to subject the data vector to the transformation prior to inserting the at least one pilot symbol into the transformed vector and prior to forming the augmented vector and wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit the augmented vector by transmitting simultaneously in time a plurality of sub-carriers; wherein the transformation distributes an element/component/dimension of the data vector over a plurality of elements/components/dimensions of the transformed vector; and wherein an element/component/dimension of the transformed vector comprises a superposition of values of a plurality of elements/components/dimensions of the data vector. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48)
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