Ceragon Networks Ltd.

Haggai Mizrahi

Isaac Rosenhouse

Gur Ballas

Oz Harel

Ofer Sharivker

David Heller

A method for optimizing reception of a polarized single-carrier transmission, including transmitting a polarized single-carrier transmission to a receiver, receiving feedback from the receiver of a figure of merit of the polarized single-carrier transmission, and electronically changing polarization of the polarized single-carrier transmission based on the feedback. A single-carrier communication transmitter including a source for a polarized single-carrier transmission signal, a circuit for receiving feedback from a receiver describing a figure of merit of a received polarized single-carrier transmission, and a circuit for changing polarization of the polarized single-carrier transmission signal, based on the feedback. Related apparatus, systems and methods are also described.

Polarization pre-coding for a single carrier communication system

A single-carrier-modulation communication system for transmitting data over a wireless link, the communication system including, on a first side of a wireless link one single-carrier-modulation receiver associated with a single antenna, on a second side of the wireless link a plurality of antennas and a plurality of single-carrier-modulation transmitters, each one of the plurality of transmitters associated with one of the plurality of antennas, the transmitters each further associated with a pre-coding filter, and the plurality of transmitters are arranged to each transmit same data via a respectively associated pre-coding filter and the associated antenna, using the pre-coding filters to perform beam-forming to the one receiver. Related apparatus and methods are also described.

Transmit diversity and receive diversity for single carrier modulation

A method for symbol timing synchronization in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication, the method including transmitting a first symbol sequence including a preamble symbol sequence Sfrom a first transmitting location, transmitting a second symbol sequence from a second transmitting location, the first and second symbol sequences being modulated onto a same carrier frequency, receiving a first mixture of the first and the second symbol sequences at a first receiving location, cross correlating the first mixture with a symbol sequence Pthereby producing a first correlation output, and determining a first timing offset for receiving the first symbol sequence based, at least in part, on the first correlation output. Related apparatus and methods are also described.

Using sequences for symbol timing synchronization in single-carrier modulation MIMO communication systems

A method for estimating interference between a plurality of carrier signals in a multi-channel system including injecting pilot symbols into a first carrier signal and transmitting the first carrier signal, transmitting a second carrier signal, receiving at least the first carrier signal and the second carrier signal, and estimating interference between the received first carrier signal and the received second carrier signal based, at least in part, on measuring the received first carrier signal when a pilot symbol of the first carrier signal is received. A multi-channel communication system including a plurality of transmitters for a plurality of carrier signals, a pilot symbol injector for injecting silent pilot symbols into at least one of the carrier signals, a plurality of receivers for the plurality of carrier signals, and an interference estimator configured to estimate interference between at least two of the plurality of carrier signals based, at least in part, on receiving silent pilot symbols in at least one of the at least two of the plurality of carrier signals. Related apparatus and methods are also described.

Estimating interference in multi channel systems

A method for estimating a Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) in a received signal including, for a fixed first set of a plurality of samples from the received signal, providing an initial noise estimate, starting with the initial noise estimate, iteratively improving the noise estimate, and estimating SNR based, at least partly, on the fixed first set of samples from the received signal and the noise estimate. Additional related apparatus and methods are also described.

SNR estimation

A protected point-to-point ACM communication system including at least a first component and a second component configured to provide live functionality and backup functionality for each other, at least a first receiver and a second receiver configured to receive an ACM transmission, one or more quality detectors configured to estimate quality of the received transmission of at least the first receiver and the second receiver, wherein at least one of the quality detectors is configured to estimate the quality of the received transmission using blind detection, and a controller configured to switch the live functionality of the protected point-to-point ACM communication system from one of the first component and the second component to another of the first component and the second component, based, at least partly, on the estimated qualities of the received transmissions of at least the first receiver and the second receiver. Related apparatus and methods are also described.

Protected variable data rate communication systems

A transmitter for transmitting data packets including a Media Access Control (MAC) address extractor configured to extract one or more MAC addresses from packet headers included in data packets, a MAC compression unit configured to provide compressed MAC data including one or more pointers associated with each of the one or more extracted MAC addresses respectively, a packet modifier configured to modify the data packets by adding the compressed MAC data to the data packets, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the modified data packets. A receiver for receiving data packets including compressed MAC data, the compressed MAC data including pointers associated with MAC addresses, including a receiving unit configured to receive data packets, a compressed MAC data extractor configured to find and extract compressed MAC data from received data packets, and a packet modifier configured to modify the received data packets by removing the compressed MAC data from the received data packet. Related apparatus and methods are also described.

MAC header compression using a pointer

A method of data transmission which includes providing a plurality of data streams, having different content, modulating the different data streams by respective modulators, multiplexing the modulated data streams into a single data stream alternately in time, such that the resultant stream includes at any specific time signals from fewer than all the data streams and transmitting the multiplexed single data stream onto a transmission channel.

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Petach-Tikva, Israel

Haggai Mizrahi