Method for synchronizing bluetooth packets

• US 7,295,546 B2
• Filed: 02/26/2003
• Issued: 11/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Reunam ki, Jukka
• Primary Examiner(s): Orgad; Edan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wong; Blanche
• Application Number:
  US10/378,036
• Publication Number:
  US 20040165576A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,721 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/350
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 7/041 using special codes as synchronising signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 7/046 using a dotting sequence
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/00 Synchronisation arrangements

Abstract

In Bluethooth medium rate packets, the access code and the header are frequently modulated by Gausian Frequency Shift Keying, and the actual payload is phase-modulated by a differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying or an 8-ary DQPSK scheme. Guard time and a synchronization sequence are placed between the header and the payload parts because of the need to change the modulation scheme and because of the ease in packet transfer. A sequence having a form of ABA is added to a Barker sequence having a form of BABBAAA for providing the synchronization sequence having the form of ABABABBAAA, where A and B are different states in a binary representation.

Claims

1. A method for improving synchronization between one communication device and another communication device using a packet, wherein the packet comprises an access code, a header and a payload segment, and the access code comprises an N-symbol synchronization word for synchronization purposes, wherein N is a positive integer and wherein the N-symbol synchronization word is a generalized Barker sequence either in a first form or a second form with symbols A and B, wherein

in the first form the generalized Barker sequence consists of a two-symbol part having a form of BA preceding an N-2 -symbol part, and wherein

in the second form the generalized Barker sequence consists of a two-symbol part having a form of AB following a different N-2 -symbol part, and wherein A is different from B in a binary representation, said method comprising:

adding at least a 3-symbol sequence having a form of ABA immediately preceding the N-symbol synchronization word when the generalized Barker sequence is in the first form, and

adding said at least 3-symbol sequence immediately following the N-symbol synchronization word when the generalized Barker sequence is in the second form.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising

modulating the extended synchronization word with a phase value for providing an at least N+3 differential phase shift keying symbols.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein A is equal to 1 and B is equal to 0.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein N is equal to 7, and the generalized Barker sequence in the first form is BABBAAA, and the generalized Barker sequence in the second form is AAABBAB.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein A is equal to 1 and B is equal to 0.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein N is equal to 11, and the generalized Barker sequence in the first form is BABBABBBAAA, and the generalized Barker sequence in the second form is AAABBBABBAB.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein A is equal to 1 and B is equal to 0.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein N is equal to 13, and the generalized Barker sequence in the first form is BABABBAABBBBB, and the generalized Barker sequence in the second form is BBBBBAABBABAB.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein B is equal to 1 and A is equal to 0.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein N is equal to 5, and the generalized Barker sequence in the first form is BABBB, and the generalized Barker sequence in the second form is BBBAB.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein said one and another communication devices comprise Bluetooth devices.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the packet comprises a Bluetooth packet.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the packet comprises a Bluetooth medium rate packet.

14. A data structure embodied in an electronically readable medium for storage in at least one of a plurality of communication devices to allow said at least one communication device to synchronize with another of said plurality of communication devices using a packet, wherein the packet includes a synchronization word, and said data structure is used to correlate with the synchronization word in the packet for synchronization purpose, said data structure comprising:

an N-symbol generalized Barker sequence, wherein N is positive integer, and

an extension part comprising at least a 3-symbol sequence having a form of ABA, wherein A and B are symbols and A is a different state from B in a binary representation, and wherein the generalized Barker sequence is either in a first form or a second form, wherein

in the first form the generalized Barker sequence consists of a two-symbol part having a form of BA preceding an N-2 -symbol part, and wherein

in the second form the generalized Barker sequence consists of a two-symbol part having a form of AB following a different N-2 -symbol part; and

wherein

when the generalized Barker sequence is in the first form, the extension part is immediately preceding the generalized Barker sequence, and

when the generalized Barker sequence is in the second form, the extension part is immediately following the generalized Barker sequence.

15. The data structure of claim 14, wherein N is equal to 7, and the generalized Barker sequence in the first form is BABBAAA, and the generalized Barker sequence in the second form is AAABBAB.

16. The data structure of claim 14, wherein N is equal to 11, and the generalized Barker sequence in the first form is BABBABBBAAA, and the generalized Barker sequence in the second form is AAABBBABBAB.

17. The data structure of claim 14, wherein N is equal to 13, and the generalized Barker sequence in the first form is BABABBAABBBBB, and the generalized Barker sequence in the second form is BBBBBAABBABAB.

18. The data structure of claim 14, wherein N is equal to 5, and the generalized Barker sequence in the first form is BABBB and the generalized Barker sequence in the second form is BBBAB.

19. The data structure of claim 14, wherein said plurality of communication devices include a mobile terminal.

20. The data structure of claim 14, wherein said plurality of communication devices include Bluetooth devices.