Time division multiplexed transmission of OFDM symbols
US6347071B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 13, 1998 |
| Grant date | Feb 12, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 13, 2018 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L5/023
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) technique which is time division multiplexed to reduce the overall effect on individual services from conditions such as selective fading. In accordance with the principles of the present invention, all available subcarriers in a channel are assigned to fewer than all of the requesting services, e.g., to just one particular service for a period of time. The period of time is preferably independent of the length of a conventional data frame. Thereafter, a second service is assigned access to the use of all available subcarriers for a period of time corresponding to its required bandwidth, and so on until all requesting services are allotted a portion of time for access to all available subcarriers. Any one service may utilize any number of the available subcarriers in a particular superframe containing one cycle of transmissions for all services.
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