Full duplex device-to-device cooperative communication

• US 10,778,403 B2
• Filed: 08/29/2018
• Issued: 09/15/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
• Inventors: Luo, Fa-Long, Schmitz, Tamara, Chritz, Jeremy, Cummins, Jaime
• Primary Examiner(s): Song, Rebecca E
• Application Number:
  US16/116,365
• Publication Number:
  US 20190081767A1
• Time in Patent Office: 748 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/525 with means for reducing leakage of transmitter signal into the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/026 Co-operative diversity, e.g. using fixed or mobile stations as relays
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0623 Auxiliary parameters, e.g. power control [PCB] or not acknowledged commands [NACK], used as feedback information
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0854 using error minimizing algorithms, e.g. minimum mean squared error [MMSE], "cross-correlation" or matrix inversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/02 Details ; arrangements for supplying electrical power along data transmission lines systems for transmitting signals via power distribution lines H04B3/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/14 Two-way operation using the same type of signal, i.e. duplex
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/1461 Suppression of signals in the return path, i.e. bidirectional control circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup

Abstract

Examples described herein include apparatuses and methods for full duplex device-to-device cooperative communication. Example systems described herein may include self-interference noise calculators. The output of a self-interference noise calculator may be used to compensate for the interference experienced due to signals transmitted by another antenna of the same wireless device or system. In implementing such a self-interference noise calculator, a selected wireless relaying device or wireless destination device may operate in a full-duplex mode, such that relayed messages may be transmitted as well as information from other sources or destinations during a common time period (e.g., symbol, slot, subframe, etc.).

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

approaching a plurality of devices via a vehicle;

transmitting, from a transceiver of the vehicle, a first message to a base station via the plurality of devices via a first set of antennas of the vehicle on a carrier during a first time period; and

contemporaneously receiving, at the transceiver, respective codes corresponding to a second message via respective signals transmitted from at least two of the plurality of devices, wherein the respective codes are generated using a particular data vector based on distributed space-time coding (DSTC), wherein the second message is provided to the plurality of device by the base station; and

reconstructing a second message from the signals by combining the respective signals with a self-interference noise signal generated based on the first message.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating the self-interference noise signal based on the first message.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the first message comprises transmitting the first message on a sidelink to the plurality of devices.

4. A system comprising:

a stationary communications device;

a plurality of devices in communication with the stationary communications device; and

a vehicle configured to move past the plurality of devices,

wherein the vehicle is configured to communicate with the stationary communications device via the plurality of devices, wherein the vehicle is configured to transmit a first message to the stationary communications device via the plurality of devices via a first set of antennas on a carrier of a radio frequency bandwidth during a first time period and to receive a second message from the stationary communications device via at least two of the plurality of devices via a second set of antennas on the carrier of the radio frequency during the first time period, wherein the vehicle is configured to contemporaneously receive respective portions of the second message from the two or more of the plurality of devices via distributed space-time coding (DSTC), wherein, in DSTC, each of the two or more of the plurality of devices is configured to transmit respective codes generated using a particular data vector, wherein, to receive the second message, the vehicle is configured to generate an interference signal to filter the first message from signals received at the second set of antennas.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the vehicle includes a self-interference noise calculator configured to generate an interference signal associated with the second set of antennas based on the first message.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the vehicle is configured to transmit the first message during a first portion of the first time period and to receive the second message during a second portion of the first time period.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the vehicle is configured to transmit a third message to at least one of the plurality of devices based on the second message.

8. The system of claim 4, wherein the vehicle configured to combine the respective codes received from the two or more of the plurality of devices to reconstruct the second message.

9. The system of claim 4, wherein the first message is an acknowledgement message.

10. The system of claim 4, wherein the first message is a negative acknowledgment message.

11. The system of claim 4, wherein the plurality of devices include user equipment, drones, base stations, other vehicles, or combinations thereof.

12. A vehicle comprising:

a transceiver configured to transmit a first message on a carrier to a plurality of devices via a first set of antennas during a first time period and to receive a second message on the carrier from at least one of the plurality of devices via a second set of antennas, wherein the transceiver is further configured to generate a self-interference noise signal based on the first message and combine the self-interference noise signal with signals received from the second set of antennas to reconstruct the second message, wherein the transceiver is configured to receive the second message from two or more of the plurality of devices via distributed space-time coding by contemporaneously receiving a respective code derived from a data vector from each of the two or more of the plurality of devices.

13. The vehicle of claim 12, wherein the transceiver is configured to transmit a third message to the plurality of devices in response to the second message.

14. The vehicle of claim 12, wherein the first message is an acknowledgement message or a negative acknowledgment message.