Device and method for determining channel equalization and reception data of receiver for packet communication

• US 9,954,697 B2
• Filed: 12/17/2014
• Issued: 04/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Korea Institute Of Ocean Science & Technology
• Original Assignee: Korea Institute Of Ocean Science & Technology
• Inventors: Kim, Seung Geun, Lim, Yong Kon, Yun, Chang Ho, Park, Jong Won
• Primary Examiner(s): NEFF, MICHAEL R
• Application Number:
  US15/106,471
• Publication Number:
  US 20160337148A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,224 Days
• Field of Search: 375232
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03 Shaping networks in transmitter or receiver, e.g. adaptive shaping networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03019 adaptive, i.e. capable of adjustment during data reception
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2697 in combination with other modulation techniques

Abstract

Provided is an apparatus for equalizing a channel and determining reception data of a packet communication receiver. The apparatus includes: an input interface unit which receives a reception sample string of a packet having a midamble and location information of the midamble; a sample dividing unit which divides the reception sample string into a first sub sample string and a second sub string stream using the location information of the midamble; and a channel equalizing unit which performs channel equalization on the first sub sample string and the second sub sample string, respectively, using a channel equalizing algorithm of the channel equalizer.

Claims

1. A method for equalizing a channel and determining reception data of a packet communication receiver, the method comprising:

receiving a reception sample string of a packet having a midamble and location information of the midamble;

dividing the reception sample string into a first sub sample string and a second sub sample string using the location information of the midamble; and

performing channel equalization on the first sub sample string and the second sub sample string, respectively, using a channel equalizing algorithm of a channel equalizer,

wherein in the first sub sample string, a first symbol string is arranged in a first order of data 1 and the midamble and in the second sub sample string, a second symbol string is arranged in a second order of the midamble and data 2,

wherein the performing of the channel equalization includes;

rearranging the first order of the first sub sample string in reverse order to change arrangement of the first symbol string in a third order of a reversely arranged midamble and reversely arranged data 1;

training a filter coefficient of the channel equalizer using a reversely arranged reference midamble symbol string as a training signal; and

performing the channel equalization on the first sub sample string reversely arranged through the filter coefficient using the first sub sample string reversely arranged as an input reception signal of the channel equalizing algorithm of the channel equalizer.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the dividing includes:

dividing the reception sample string so as to superimpose the midamble.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the performing of the channel equalization includes:

defining a midamble binary data string as a first symbol S(0)=(1+j*0), defining a symbol string generated in accordance with a symbol mapping method of π

/4-DQPSK modulation as a reference midamble symbol string, defining the reference midamble symbol string which is rearranged in reverse order as the reversely arranged reference midamble symbol string, and using the reference midamble symbol string or the reversely arranged reference midamble symbol string as the training signal of the channel equalizer, wherein the j is imaginary unit.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the performing of the channel equalization includes:

training the filter coefficient of the channel equalizer using the reference midamble symbol string which is correctly arranged as the training signal; and

performing the channel equalization on the second sub sample string through the filter coefficient using the second sub sample string as the input reception signal of the channel equalizing algorithm of the channel equalizer.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the performing of the channel equalization includes:

considering that the first sub sample string is virtually rearranged in reverse order;

training the filter coefficient of the channel equalizer using the reversely arranged reference midamble symbol string as the training signal; and

performing the channel equalization on the first sub sample string which is virtually reversely arranged through the filter coefficient using the first sub sample string as the input reception signal of the channel equalizing algorithm of the channel equalizer.

6. The method according to claim 5, further comprising:

determining a symbol which is the closest to an output symbol of the channel equalizer in a corresponding symbol section among four candidate symbols of a constellation set of a π

/4 DQPSK signal, as a reception symbol in the corresponding symbol section, after the symbol section of the training signal, to use the determined symbol as the training signal.

7. The method according to claim 5, further comprising:

determining a reception symbol, based on signs of a real part and an imaginary part of an output signal of a filter of the channel equalizer, for a symbol section having one constellation of a constellation set of the π

/4 DQPSK signal; and

determining the reception symbol based on a comparison result of absolute values of the real part and the imaginary part of the output signal of the filter of the channel equalizer, for the symbol section having another constellation of the constellation set.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

using a last symbol of a reversely arranged midamble of an output symbol string of the channel equalizer by the first sub sample string which is reversely arranged as a reference symbol of differential demodulation for determining a transmission symbol in data 1 part; and

performing differential demodulation on a reversely arranged subsequent output symbol string of the channel equalizer of the data 1 part to determine transmission data.

9. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

using a last symbol of a reference midamble of an output symbol string of the channel equalizer by the second sub sample string to a symbol by binary data of data 2 as a reference symbol of differential demodulation for determining a transmission symbol, in data 2 part; and

sequentially performing differential demodulation on a correctly arranged subsequent output symbol string of the channel equalizer of the data 2 part to determine the transmission data.

10. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a computer program performing a method for equalizing a channel and determining reception data of a packet communication receiver, the method comprising:

receiving a reception sample string of a packet having a midamble and location information of the midamble;

dividing the reception sample string into a first sub sample string and a second sub sample string using the location information of the midamble; and

performing channel equalization on the first sub sample string and the second sub sample string, respectively, using a channel equalizing algorithm of a channel equalizer,

wherein in the first sub sample string, a first symbol string is arranged in a first order of data 1 and the midamble and in the second sub sample string, a second symbol string is arranged in a second order of the midamble and data 2,

wherein the performing of the channel equalization includes;

rearranging the first order of the first sub sample string in reverse order to change arrangement of the first symbol string in a third order of a reversely arranged midamble and reversely arranged data 1;

training a filter coefficient of the channel equalizer using a reversely arranged reference midamble symbol string as a training signal; and

performing the channel equalization on the first sub sample string reversely arranged through the filter coefficient using the first sub sample string reversely arranged as an input reception signal of the channel equalizing algorithm of the channel equalizer.