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Time-domain transmit and receive processing with channel eigen-mode decomposition for MIMO systems

US6760388B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 7, 2001
Grant dateJul 6, 2004
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Expiry dateJun 26, 2022

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L2025/03605
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Techniques for processing a data transmission at the transmitter and receiver. In an aspect, a time-domain implementation is provided which uses frequency-domain singular value decomposition and “water-pouring” results to derive time-domain pulse-shaping and beam-steering solutions at the transmitter and receiver. The singular value decomposition is performed at the transmitter to determine eigen-modes (i.e., spatial subchannels) of the MIMO channel and to derive a first set of steering vectors used to “precondition” modulation symbols. The singular value decomposition is also performed at the receiver to derive a second set of steering vectors used to precondition the received signals such that orthogonal symbol streams are recovered at the receiver, which can simplify the receiver processing. Water-pouring analysis is used to more optimally allocate the total available transmit power to the eigen-modes, which then determines the data rate and the coding and modulation scheme to be used for each eigen-mode.

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