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Robust transmission mode

US6278685A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 19, 1999
Grant dateAug 21, 2001
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Expiry dateAug 19, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L5/0007
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An interleaving/de-interleaving scheme for providing redundancy with both time and frequency diversity to data in OFDM symbols in a data transmission system. On the transmit side, encoded data to be modulated onto carriers in OFDM symbols is interleaved by storing the encoded data in an interleaver memory and reading multiple copies of the encoded data from the interleaver memory so that the encoded data copies are spread in time on non-consecutive symbols and in frequency on non-adjacent carriers. On the receive side, the multiple copies of the OFDM data are received, and phase noise computations are used to combine the multiple copies (in either metric or phase angle form) into one. From the combined copies a single metric value to be used in decoding the OFDM data is produced.

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