Optimization of transmit signal polarization of an adaptive polarization array (APA)

• US 9,258,051 B2
• Filed: 06/11/2013
• Issued: 02/09/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LHC2 Inc.
• Original Assignee: LHC2 Inc.
• Inventors: Hillstrom, Timothy Leonard, Conley, Robert J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dao, Minh D
• Application Number:
  US13/915,625
• Publication Number:
  US 20130331039A1
• Time in Patent Office: 973 Days
• Field of Search: 455/67.11, 455/67.13, 455/67.16, 455/115.1, 455/226.1, 455/226.2, 455/226.3, 343/756
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/24 Combinations of antenna units polarised in different directions for transmitting or receiving circularly and elliptically polarised waves or waves linearly polarised in any direction circularly polarised patch antennas H01Q9/0428; circularly polarised horns H01Q13/0241; cross-polarised horns H01Q13/0258; polarisation converters H01Q15/242; cross-polarised rear feeds H01Q19/136; crossed polarisation dual antenna H01Q25/001
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/245 provided with means for varying the polarisation polarising devices H01Q15/24; tracking by comparing linear polarisation compounds G01S3/146; reducing depolarisation effects H04B7/00; polarisation diversity H04B7/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/10 Polarisation diversity; Directional diversity

Abstract

An Adaptive Polarization Array (APA) Algorithm is described for analyzing a wireless signal transmitted by an entity to determine a received polarization of the received wireless signal at a non-coherent receiver. The APA Algorithm determines a transmit polarization state for a transmitter to transmit signals to the entity based in part on the determined received polarization. The transmitter is an arbitrary-polarized transmitter configured to transmit signals at any polarization.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a first wireless signal in a non-coherent manner at a receiver;

determining a received polarization state of the first wireless signal;

adjusting a transmit polarization state of a transmitter to an adjusted transmit polarization state based at least in part on the determined received polarization state; and

transmitting a second wireless signal at the adjusted transmit polarization state, wherein determining the received polarization state of the first wireless signal is based at least in part on a mean of a complex array of a vertical component of the first wireless signal and a complex array of a horizontal component of the first wireless signal.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein:

the first wireless signal and the second wireless signal include wireless signals of a non-coherent system;

or

the first wireless signal and the second wireless signal include wireless signals of a coherent system, and the first wireless signal is received at a Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) that prevents successful carrier recovery of the first wireless signal by the receiver.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein:

the receiver is an arbitrary-polarized receiver; and

the transmitter is an arbitrary-polarized transmitter that includes at least two transmit antennas having non-equal polarization to emulate a single transmit antenna having adjustable transmit polarization states.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the adjusting the transmit polarization state of the transmitter comprises adjusting the adjusted transmit polarization state to the determined received polarization state.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the determining the received polarization state includes:

determining a solution for a first weighting of a first polarization channel of the transmitter;

determining a second weighting of a second polarization channel of the transmitter based at least in part on the solution; and

determining a carrier phase shift for at least one of the first polarization channel or the second polarization channel based at least in part on one or more complex arrays of the first wireless signal.

6. The method as recited in claim 5, wherein the adjusted transmit polarization state is based at least in part on:

applying the first weighting to the first polarization channel of the transmitter;

applying the second weighting to the second polarization channel of the transmitter; and

applying the carrier phase shift to at least one of the first polarization channel or the second polarization channel of the transmitter.

7. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the receiver receives the first wireless signal in the non-coherent manner from an endpoint.

8. The method as recited in claim 7, wherein the second wireless signal is transmitted to the endpoint.

9. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein receiving the first wireless signal and transmitting the second wireless signal is performed by a concentrator or a repeater.

10. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein determining the received polarization state of the first wireless signal is based at least in part on a power array of a signal reference.

11. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the received polarization state of the first wireless signal differs from a transmitted polarization state of the first wireless signal based at least in part on polarization scattering or fading differences in vertical and horizontal signal components in a channel used to transmit the first wireless signal.

12. A system comprising:

a receiver;

an arbitrary-polarized transmitter having adjustable transmit polarization states; and

control logic configured to;

calculate a polarization state of a first dual-polarized signal received in a non-coherent manner at the receiver; and

adjust a transmit polarization state of the arbitrary-polarized transmitter to transmit a second dual-polarized signal having a polarization at the calculated polarization state, wherein the transmit polarization state of the arbitrary-polarized transmitter is adjusted based at least in part on;

applying a first normalized magnitude weight to a vertical transmitter channel of the arbitrary-polarized transmitter;

applying a second normalized magnitude weight to a horizontal transmitter channel of the arbitrary-polarized transmitter; and

applying the carrier phase shift to at least one of the vertical transmitter channel or the horizontal transmitter channel of the arbitrary-polarized transmitter.

13. The system as recited in claim 12, wherein the arbitrary-polarized transmitter includes at least two transmit antennas having non-equal polarization to emulate a single transmit antenna having the adjustable transmit polarization states.

14. The system as recited in claim 12, wherein:

the receiver receives the first dual-polarized signal from an entity; and

the second dual-polarized signal is transmitted having the polarization at the calculated polarization state to the entity.

15. The system as recited in claim 12, wherein the calculated polarization state is based at least in part on determining a normalized weighting of a first polarization channel and an added phase differential of a horizontal carrier relative to a vertical carrier.

16. Control logic comprising:

memory;

one or more processors;

at least one module stored on the memory and executable by the one or more processors, the at least one module configured to;

estimate a received polarization state of a first wireless signal received in a non-coherent manner at a receiver from an entity;

determine values associated with the estimated received polarization state; and

apply the values to adjust an arbitrary-polarized transmitter to transmit a second wireless signal at the estimated received polarization state to the entity, wherein the values include weighting values and a carrier phase shift.

17. The control logic as recited in claim 16, the at least one module is further configured to, upon determining a requirement to transmit a third wireless signal to the entity, apply the values to adjust the arbitrary-polarized transmitter to transmit the third wireless signal at the estimated received polarization state to the entity.