Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Hyun-seok Yu

Hyun-Seok Oh

Yong-Suk Moon

Gin-Kyu Choi

Hye-Jeong Lee

Min-Goo Kim

Siu-Chuang Ivan Lu

Ji-Won Ha

Chae-Hag Yi

Hyun-Bae Lee

Young-Seok Lim

Do-Yun Kim

Sang-won Son

Sung-Jin Kim

Jun-ho Lee

Sang Won Son

Jeong-Won Lee

Young-seok Jung

Su-Jin Yoon

Hung-Su Park

Beom-Kon Kim

Hui-won Je

Hwan-Min Park

Jeong-Gyun Yu

Won-Seok Park

Jung-Hoon Joo

Provided is an antenna module including: a phased array having a plurality of antennas and configured to communicate a first RF signal and a second RF signal, which are polarized in different directions; a front-end radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) including a first RF circuit configured to process or generate the first RF signal and a second RF circuit configured to process or generate the second RF signal; and a switch circuit configured to connect each of the first RF circuit and the second RF circuit to a first port or a second port of the antenna module according to a control signal. The first and second ports are each connectable to a back end RFIC that processes or generates a baseband signal.

Phased array antenna module and communication device including the same

A wireless communication method using a plurality of antennas performed by a controller, the wireless communication method including obtaining a target transmission power level and beam forming information, determining at least one inactive antenna from among the plurality of antennas, based on the target transmission power level and the beam forming information, and controlling transmission signals provided to the plurality of antennas such that transmission via the at least one inactive antenna does not occur.

Methods and apparatuses for wireless communication using antenna array

Provided is an antenna module including: a phased array having a plurality of antennas and configured to communicate a first RF signal and a second RF signal, which are polarized in different directions; a front-end radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) including a first RF circuit configured to process or generate the first RF signal and a second RF circuit configured to process or generate the second signal; and a switch circuit configured to connect each of the first RF circuit and the second RE circuit to a first port or a second port of the antenna module according to a control signal. The first and second ports are each connectable to a back end RFIC that processes or generates a baseband signal.

A communication device and method operating in a wireless communication system is provided. The communication device includes a memory configured to store frequency history information; and a processor electrically connected to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to measure reception power of each of a plurality of first signals included in a first band, determine a first candidate frequency set according to a strength of each measured reception power, determine a second candidate frequency set updated from the first candidate frequency set based on the frequency history information, and determine whether a cell corresponding to each frequency included in the second candidate frequency set exists.

Communication device for performing carrier search in TD-SCDMA system and method of controlling same

A method for detecting a signal by a signal receiving apparatus is provided. The method includes detecting a part of block diagonal matrices included in a diagonal matrix based on at least one channel impulse response (CIR) for a received signal, detecting remaining block diagonal matrices excluding the part of block diagonal matrices from among block diagonal matrices included in the diagonal matrix, estimating modulation symbols from the received signal based on the diagonal matrix, generating a block diagonal matrix by multiplying one of second matrices included in a first matrix, which is generated by applying a circular extension scheme to a fourth matrix including third matrices, by a fast Fourier transform (FFT) matrix, generating a third matrix for one of the estimated modulation symbols, the third matrix includes vectors for channelization codes, and generating a vector based on the channelization codes or the at least one CIR.

Method for detecting signal in communication system and signal receiving apparatus thereof

A communication device and a method of controlling the same. The communication device includes at least one receiver configured to connect to a first antenna for receiving a first signal and a second antenna for receiving a second signal; and a processor electrically coupled to the at least one receiver, wherein the processor is configured to measure received signal strengths of the first signal and the second signal based on calibration operation for the first antenna and the second antenna, select one of the first antenna and the second antenna based on the measured received signal strengths, and control the at least one receiver to receive a signal through the selected one of the first antenna and the second antenna.

Communication device and method of controlling same

A method and apparatus for canceling interference during reception of a broadcast signal in a hybrid terminal including a broadcast receiver and a mobile communication terminal. In the interference cancellation apparatus, a gain controller adjusts transmission power of the mobile communication terminal, and a transmission power controller determines whether there is a burst of a broadcast signal that the broadcast receiver will receive. If there is a burst of the broadcast signal, the transmission power controller controls the gain controller to decrease transmission power of a mobile communication signal transmitted by the mobile communication terminal at a corresponding slot.

Method and apparatus for canceling interference in a hybrid terminal supporting both broadcast service and mobile communication service, and a hybrid terminal thereof

A gap filler apparatus providing cyclic delay diversity in a digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) system. In the gap filler apparatus, a receiver receives an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal transmitted as a broadcasting signal. A symbol synchronization unit acquires symbol synchronization of the OFDM signal, detects a guard interval of an OFDM symbol using the symbol synchronization, determines a sample length, by which the OFDM symbol is cyclic-delayed within the guard interval, and cyclic-delays the OFDM signal by the determined sample length. An amplifier amplifies the cyclic-delayed OFDM signal. A transmitter transmits the amplified OFDM signal to a wireless network.

Gap filler apparatus and method for providing cyclic delay diversity in a digital multimedia broadcasting system, and broadcasting relay network using the same

An optimum I/Q imbalance compensating apparatus and method in a zero-IF OFDM receiver. In the apparatus, a first compensator generates a first symbol by removing interference from a second distorted symbol on an (N&#x2212;m+1)subcarrier from a first distorted symbol on an msubcarrier by a first compensation coefficient in an OFDM FFT signal of Nsubcarriers. A first hard decider generates a first compensated symbol by hard-decision on the first symbol, an error calculator generates an error symbol by subtracting the first received symbol from the first compensated symbol. A second compensator generates a second symbol by eliminating interference from the first distorted symbol from the second distorted symbol using a second compensation coefficient. A second hard decider generates a second compensated symbol by hard-decision on the second symbol, and an adaptive controller updates the first compensation coefficient using the error symbol and the second compensation symbol.

Apparatus and method for optimally compensating for imbalance between in-phase and quadrature-phase in a zero-IF OFDM receiver

An apparatus and a method for improving the performance of an error correction code in response to the influence of error propagation are disclosed. A receiver of a mobile communication system, which transmits/receives data at a high speed by means of the plurality of transmission antennas and the plurality of reception antennas, estimates a transmission signal of a specific path from a first received signal according to a preset criterion, measures an error component for each symbol of the estimated transmission signal, performs an error correction for symbols having a corresponding error component exceeding a preset value, detects transmission data from all symbols through a predetermined signal reverse-processing procedure, reconstructs a transmission signal from the transmission data, subtracts the reconstructed transmission signal from the received signal to generate a second received signal, and repeats the above operations until transmission data of all paths are detected from the second received signal.

Apparatus and method for canceling an interference signal in a mobile communication system using multiple antennas

An apparatus and method for improving the performance of an error correction code against the effects of error waves in a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) communication system are provided. In a receiver of the MIMO communication system, a Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) receiver unit estimates transmitted signals from at least two paths using signals received at each of receive antennas, a signal deprocessor selects one of the estimated signals, stores the other estimated signal, assigns weighting values to the selected signal and a previous detected signal, combines the weighted signals, and detects transmitted data from the combined signal, a signal reproducer reproduces a transmitted signal from the detected transmitted data, and a subtractor updates the received signals by subtracting the reproduced transmitted signal from the received signals and provides them to the MMSE receiver unit.

Apparatus and method for cancelling interference in a mobile communication system using multiple antennas

An apparatus and a method capable of effectively allocating sub-carriers for a plurality of users and transmitting the sub-carriers to users through multiple antennas in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDMA) mobile communication system are provided. A sub-carrier allocation method reduces transmission power by taking a desired bit rate and power budget into consideration. The sub-carriers are optimally allocated to each antenna, so that peak to average power ratio (PARR) is reduced and Quality of Service (QoS) is improved. The apparatus and the method are adaptable for multi-users and obtain space diversity gain through multiple antennas.

Apparatus and method for sub-carrier allocation in a multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communication system

An apparatus and method for assigning sub-carriers in an orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) system are disclosed. In the apparatus and method, data is transmitted through at least one transmit antenna. At least two sub-carriers in a predetermined frequency band are assigned to a user equipment (UE), for data transmission. A Node B groups sub-carriers available to the OFDM system into sub-carrier groups, each having at least two sub-carriers, transmits data to the UE on sub-carriers in the sub-carrier groups, selects at least one sub-carrier group for the UE based on channel condition information about each of the sub-carrier groups received from the UE, and assigns the selected sub-carrier group to the UE.

Apparatus and method for assigning sub-carriers in an orthogonal frequency division multiplex system

An apparatus and method for receiving a signal in a MIMO communication system are provided. In the signal receiving method, a first received signal received at each of the receive antennas is equalized in a predetermined first method. Each of the equalized transmit antenna signals is despread with a plurality of spreading codes used in a transmitter. The strongest transmit antenna signal is detected among the despread transmit antenna signals, and decoded in a predetermined second method, for error verification. The verified strongest transmit antenna signal is reproduced as an interference signal. A second received signal is generated by subtracting the interference signal from the first received signal and equalized in the first method. The above operation is repeated on the equalized transmit antenna signals except the strongest transmit antenna signal.

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Hyun-seok Yu