Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Phazr, Inc.

Eran Pisek

Yan E Wang

Shadi Abu-Surra

Jasmin Oz

Farooq Khan

Thomas M Henige

Robert Clark Daniels

Rakesh Taori

Khurram Muhammad

Joseph R Cleveland

Zhouyue Pi

Sridhar Rajagopal

Khalil Haddad

Paul Gilliland

Oren E Eliezer

William Joseph Semper

Sudhir Ramakrishna

Sidharth Balasubramanian

Ying Li

Changhoi Koo

Gary Xu

Ronald Webb

Bei Yin

Muryong Kim

Thirumalarao Voonna

Xiaoqing Fan

Mehrzad Malmirchegini

Shadi Abu-surra

A wireless transmitter includes a signal processing circuit configured to generate a plurality of first and second spatial streams signals. The transmitter includes a frequency shift circuit configured to selectively apply different frequency shifts to the first and second spatial streams signals. A wireless receiver includes a frequency shift circuit configured to selectively apply different frequency shifts to the received first and second spatial streams signals. The receiver also includes a signal processing circuit configured to process the first and second frequency shifted signals.

Systems and methods for bandwidth expansion and frequency scaling

Methods and systems for channel mapping in a densely deployed network are disclosed. The system includes a node comprising a plurality of base stations configured to communicate with client devices in a wireless communication network, wherein transmission from the base stations to the client devices is conducted on a downlink (DL) frequency band and transmission from the client devices to the base stations is conducted on an uplink (UL) frequency band. The DL frequency band is different from the UL frequency band. DL and UL frequency pairs for the base stations are assigned according to a channel mapping scheme that determines DL and UL frequency pairs based on a plurality of channel parameters. The channel parameters include, for example, received signal strength indicator (RSSI), signal to noise (S/N) ratio, channel capacity, and bit error rate (BER).

Methods and systems for channel mapping in a communication network

Methods and apparatuses for coding a codeword. An apparatus for decoding the codeword includes a memory configured to receive the codeword encoded based on a low-density parity check (LDPC) code H-matrix and a two-step lifting matrix and processing circuitry configured to decode the received codeword. An apparatus for encoding the codeword includes memory configured to store information bits to be encoded into the codeword and processing circuitry configured to encode the codeword based on based on a LDPC code H-matrix and a two-step lifting matrix. A code length of the LDPC code H-matrix lifted by the two-step lifting matrix is an integer multiple of 672 bits. The LDPC code block H-matrix may be an IEEE 802.11ad standard LDPC coding matrix. The two-step lifting matrix can be one of a plurality of two-step lifting matrices to generate a family of LDPC codes.

Channel coding framework for 802.11AY and larger block-length LDPC codes for 11AY with 2-step lifting matrices and in-place property

A wireless communications system includes an outside module configured to communicate with a radio base station. The outside module includes a wireless power receiver. The system includes an inside module configured to communicate with the outside module and to communicate with a communications device. The inside module includes a wireless power transmitter configured to wirelessly transmit power to the outside module.

Communications system bridging wireless from outdoor to indoor

A portable millimeter-wave wireless communications device relies on millimeter-wave spectrum for wireless communications. The millimeter-wave device may be a smart-phone, a laptop computer or a tablet computer. The millimeter-wave device may be a module that is added to an existing portable device such as a smart-phone, a laptop computer or a tablet computer to provide millimeter-wave communications capability. The module may be incorporated into a protective encapsulating case of such portable devices.

Portable millimeter-wave communications device

A wireless access point is configured to communicate in millimeter wave frequency bands in the downlink direction and in sub-6 GHz frequency bands in the uplink direction. The wireless access point includes a signal processing circuit configured to generate different spatial streams signals and a frequency shift circuit configured to apply different frequency shifts to the different spatial streams signals. The wireless access point includes a mixer driven by a local oscillator, which up-converts the frequency shifted signals to millimeter wave frequency band signals, wherein the millimeter wave frequency band signals are transmitted by a MIMO transmit antenna array. A wireless communication device applies different frequency shifts to the different spatial streams signals after down-converting the signals received at a higher millimeter wave frequency to a lower frequency below 6 GHz. The wireless communication device applies no frequency-shifts to different spatial streams signals transmitted at lower frequency below 6 GHz.

Wireless system using different bands in the transmit and receive direction and applying frequency shifts for bandwidth expansion

In a packet-based communication system, a transmitter and a receiver implement low power synchronization techniques. The transmitter transmits a packet that includes a two-part preamble. A first part of the two-part preamble is transmitted at a first reduced bandwidth that is smaller than a second bandwidth of the channel, and at least one of a second part of the two-part preamble and another portion of the packet is transmitted at the second bandwidth of the channel. The receiver includes an interleaved analog-to-digital converter (ADC) including multiple sub-ADCs. The receiver turns on a first subset of the multiple sub-ADCs during an idle listening period, and turns on a second subset of the multiple sub-ADCs upon detection of a completion of the first part of the two-part preamble, wherein the first subset of the multiple sub-ADCs is less than the second subset of the multiple sub-ADCs.

Method and apparatus to enable low power synchronization for large bandwidth wireless LAN systems

An encoding apparatus includes a processor and a communication interface operably coupled to a distributed storage system (DSS) that includes n storage device nodes. The processor is coupled to the communication interface, and configured to encode the nodes according to an XF erasure code by: dividing a number of symbols of original data into k data packets; selecting k of the storage device nodes to store the k data packets and n&#x2212;k other storage device nodes to store parity packets; outputting the k data packets to the k selected storage device nodes; obtaining an XF code generator matrix; generating n&#x2212;k parity packets according to a function of the k data packets and the XF code generator matrix; and outputting the n&#x2212;k parity packets to each of the n&#x2212;k other storage device nodes.

XF erasure code for distributed storage systems

A communication system is configured to use coded modulation architecture using sparse regression codes. A transmitter includes a plurality of antenna and processing circuitry configured to: divide a data signal into a plurality of layers, allocate power individually to each of the plurality layers, encode a subset of the plurality of layers, the subset comprising a number of layers less than the whole, and interleave the subset of the plurality of layers. A receiver includes a plurality of antenna and processing circuitry configured to divide a received data signal into a plurality of layers and perform layer-by-layer decoding on the received data and control signals.

Coded modulation architecture using sparse regression codes

A JSALE encoder includes a first encryption layer to apply a first encryption key to a plaintext input data. The JSALE encoder includes a row encoding module to: generate parity bits of a current layer of an H-matrix by applying a LDPC encoding process to the encrypted input data, and generate a cryptcoded data appending the parity bits to the encrypted input data. The JSALE encoder includes a second encryption layer to initiate each subsequent round of the JSALE process through round Nr and to output a ciphertext after the Nr round.

Method and apparatus of joint security advanced LDPC cryptcoding

A receiver, such as a mobile station or base station, includes a sliding window-decoder. An antenna in the receiver is configured to receive a protograph-based spatially coupled low density parity check (SC-LDPC) code from a transmitter. The sliding window-decoder is configured to perform a SC-LDPC decoding operation on the SC-LDPC code using a sliding window. The SC-LDPC code includes a parity check matrix. The sliding window includes a subset of protograph sections on which decoding calculations are iteratively performed. The sliding window-decoder performs a stopping rule configured to cease the decoding calculations as a function of a syndrome of one or more check nodes (CNs) in the sliding window.

SC-LDPC codes for wireless communication systems: framework and zigzag-window decoder

An apparatus and method decode LDPC code. The apparatus includes a memory and a number of LDPC processing elements. The memory is configured to receive a LDPC codeword having a length equal to a lifting factor times a base LDPC code length, wherein the lifting factor is greater than one. The number of LDPC processing elements configured to decode the LDPC codeword, wherein each of the number of LDPC processing elements decode separate portions of the LDPC codeword.

Apparatus and method for decoding LDPC codes in a communications system

A receiver in a communication system is provided that includes a synchronization module and a channel estimator. The synchronization module is configured to identify an end of a cyclic prefix (CP) in a received signal using slope detection by monitoring a detection metric threshold in the received signal. The channel estimator is configured to estimate a complex noise variance using guard band subcarriers.

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