Rockwell Collins, Inc.

Daniel M Zange

Michael N Newhouse

Robert J Frank

Karl F Hoech

Dana J Jensen

Richard L Robertson

Scott J F Zogg

Gunther B Frank

Bruce S Kloster

Wayne A Kraus

Joseph F Jiacinto

Kent D Benson

Kenneth M Peterson

David K Baugh

A method is provided to control scheduling of transmission and reception by a TDMA radio. This method allows individual transmissions and receptions to be independently configured for different frequencies, coding rates, modulation schemes, in fact anything which the radio modem allows to be configured. In addition, this scheduling and configuration may be configured and reconfigured in real time without disrupting radio operations.

Real time control and management of a TDMA radio

A spread spectrum communication system includes a transceiver configured to transmit a spread spectrum waveform. The spread spectrum waveform comprises transmitted signals at varying frequencies within a radio frequency spectrum of operation. The frequency variation is controlled according to a hopping sequence. A spectral sensor of the communication system is configured to dynamically scan the radio frequency spectrum of operation and to generate channel occupancy data based upon the scans. A real time hopping sequence generator is configured to dynamically generate the hopping sequence in real time as a function of the channel occupancy data.

Cognitive spectral sensor-based PN hopping/spreading sequence generator

A method for transmitting data from a transmitter to a receiver in an ad hoc large scale directional network includes the followings steps. A first training sequence is sent by a transmitter in an ad hoc directional network. The first training sequence is received by a receiver in the ad hoc directional network. The receiver determines a first apparent direction from which the first training sequence is sent. The receiver sends a second training sequence to the transmitter. The transmitter determines a second apparent direction from which the second training sequence is sent. The transmitter directs a signal with the first training sequence to the receiver. The transmitter sends the signal with the first training sequence to the receiver. The receiver receives the first training sequence. The receiver is directed to the first apparent direction to receive the signal.

Ad hoc large scale directional networks

A method of correlating a signal to a synchronization pattern is disclosed. The signal has a waveform with frequency and phase angle components that may be varied, at each repeated signal pulse, to communicate a change in a bit pattern of the signal. A synchronization pattern is generated using knowledge of phase rotation direction due to two consecutive bits in a synchronization key. The signal is compared with the synchronization pattern. It is determined whether the comparison of the signal and the synchronization pattern indicate a correlation between the signal and the synchronization pattern.

Off-symbol correlation technique

An orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communications system transmits data on a plurality of subcarriers and has a featureless synchronization signal. The OFDM communications system transmits synchronization tones on pseudorandomly selected subcarriers. A receiver generates the same synchronization tones and performs a correlation on the received signal with the receiver synchronization tones. The correlation is performed at the beginning and the end of the synchronization symbol. A product of the two correlations results in a magnitude peak and a phase difference. The magnitude peak is used to determine the location in time of the sync symbol and the phase difference is used to determine the frequency offset of the received signal.

Featureless synchronization in multi-user OFDM

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Daniel M Zange