Time-frequency code spreading method and apparatus in OFDMA system

• US 8,351,485 B2
• Filed: 09/27/2008
• Issued: 01/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Beijing Xinwei Telecom Technology Company Limited (Beijing Xinwei Technology Group Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Beijing Xinwei Telecom Technology Company Limited (Beijing Xinwei Technology Group Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Li, Hang
• Primary Examiner(s): Bayard, Emmanuel
• Application Number:
  US12/680,394
• Publication Number:
  US 20100246641A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,564 Days
• Field of Search: 375/146, 375/260, 370/329
• US Class Current: 375/146
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2634 Inverse fast Fourier transform [IFFT] or inverse discrete Fourier transform [IDFT] modulators in combination with other circuits for modulation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2647 Arrangements specific to the receiver only equalisation H04L27/01
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0016 Time-frequency-code

Abstract

The present invention provides a time-frequency code spreading method in an OFDMA system. The method includes: converting a transmission message into one or more modulating signal vectors, and each bit of the transmission message is spread onto all vector elements of a modulating signal vector; mapping one or more modulating signal vectors to a set of time-frequency grids, wherein in an OFDMA time-frequency plane, two time-frequency grids to which any two vector elements in each modulating signal vector are mapped do not have the same frequency location or time location. In addition, the present invention also provides a time-frequency code spreading apparatus in an OFDMA system.

Claims

1. A time-frequency code spreading method in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) system, comprising:

converting a transmission message into one or more modulating signal vectors by a vector converting module of the OFDMA system, wherein each bit of the transmission message is spread onto all vector elements of one modulating signal vector; and

mapping the one or more modulating signal vectors to a set of time-frequency grids by a mapping processing module of the OFDMA system, wherein in an OFDMA time-frequency plane, two time-frequency grids to which any two vector elements in each modulating signal vector are mapped do not have the same frequency location or time location.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein converting a transmission message into one or more modulating signal vectors comprises:

dividing the transmission message into multiple bit vectors;

converting each bit vector into a symbol vector according to a given modulation method; and

mapping each symbol vector to obtain a modulating signal vector, wherein a dimension number of the modulating signal vector is larger than or equal to a dimension number of the symbol vector.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein mapping each symbol vector to obtain a modulating signal vector comprises:

multiplying each symbol vector by a code spreading matrix whose dimension number matches with the dimension numbers of the symbol vector and the modulating signal vector to obtain the modulating signal vector;

wherein the code spreading matrix is a real matrix or a complex matrix.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein mapping the one or more modulating signal vectors to a set of time-frequency grids comprises:

dividing all the time-frequency grids in each time slot into multiple basic subsets which are not intersected with each other, wherein the number of sub-carriers contained in each basic subset is the same, and the number of time-frequency grids contained in each sub-carrier is the same, and the time-frequency grids contained in each subcarrier are time-continuous in the time slot; and

mapping the one or more modulating signal vectors to the time-frequency grids of an allocated basic subset, if the time-frequency grids of one basic subset are used up, the rest modulating signal vectors are mapped to a next allocated basic subset.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein mapping the one or more modulating signal vectors to the grids comprises:

inserting one or more null symbols in the modulating signal vector.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving one or more modulating signal vectors, and checking all bits contained in the one or more modulating signal vectors, to recover the transmission message.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the receiving comprises:

extracting one or more modulating signal vectors from time-frequency grids according to a mapping rule between the modulating signal vectors and the time-frequency grids, checking the modulating signal vectors to obtain one or more symbol vectors, and demodulating and decoding the one or more symbol vectors to recover the transmission message.

8. A time-frequency code spreading apparatus in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) system, comprising:

a vector converting module, adapted to convert a transmission message into one or multiple modulating signal vectors, wherein each bit of the transmission message is spread onto all vector elements of one modulating signal vector; and

a mapping processing module, adapted to map the one or more modulating signal vectors to a set of time-frequency grids, wherein in an OFDMA time-frequency plane, two time-frequency grids to which any two vector elements in each modulating signal vector are mapped do not have the same frequency location or time location.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the vector converting module comprises:

a bit vectoring module, adapted to divide the transmission message into multiple bit vectors;

a symbol vectoring module, adapted to map each bit vector to obtain a symbol vector; and

a modulating signal vector generating module, adapted to convert each symbol vector into a modulating signal vector, wherein a dimension number of the modulating signal vector is larger than or equal to a dimension number of the symbol vector.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the modulating signal vector generating module obtains the modulating signal vector by multiplying each signal vector by a code spreading matrix whose dimension number matches with the dimension numbers of the symbol vector and the modulating signal vector.

11. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the mapping processing module comprises:

a grid dividing module, adapted to dividing all the time-frequency grids in each time slot into multiple basic subsets which are not intersected with each other, wherein the number of sub-carriers contained in each basic subset is the same, and the number of time-frequency grids contained in each sub-carrier is the same, and the time-frequency grids contained in each sub-carrier are time-continuous in the time slot; and

a signal mapping module, adapted to map the one or more modulating signal vectors to the time-frequency grids of an allocated basic subset, if the time-frequency grids of one basic subset are used up, the rest modulating signal vectors are mapped to a next allocated basic subset.

12. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the signal mapping module is further adapted to insert one or more null symbols in the modulating signal vector.

13. The apparatus of claim 8, further comprising:

a receiving processing module, adapted to receive one or more modulating signal vectors, and check all bits contained in the one or more modulating signal vectors, to recover the transmission message.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the receiving processing module is adapted to extract one or more modulating signal vectors according to a mapping rule adopted by the mapping processing module, check the modulating signal vectors to obtain one or more symbol vectors, and demodulate and decode the one or more symbol vectors to recover the transmission message.