Industrial Technology Research Institute

Jia-Wei Liu

Chorng-Ren Sheu

Ming-Chien Tseng

Chuan-Yuan Huang

Jia-Ming Chen

Shi-Yang Chen

The disclosure provides an electronic device including a coupler, a transceiver, and a control circuit. The coupler generates a coupled downlink signal according to a downlink signal from a head-end unit. The transceiver switches between the transmission of a downlink signal and the reception of an uplink signal according to a control signal. The control circuit receives the coupled downlink signal, generates a status counting signal according to the power status of the coupled downlink signal, and generates the control signal according to the status counting signal. Only when the level of the coupled downlink signal is lower than an amplitude threshold level with a duration longer than a status counting time, the control circuit converts the status counting signal from a first logic level to a second logic level opposite to the first logic level. Otherwise, the control circuit maintains the status counting signal on the first logic level.

Electronic device and data control method

Communication methods and communication devices are disclosed. The communication method, performed by a communication device, including: receiving a time-domain OFDM symbol; converting the time-domain OFDM symbol to a frequency-domain OFDM symbol containing a plurality of pilot sub-carrier received signals; extracting the plurality of pilot sub-carrier received signals from the frequency-domain OFDM symbol; estimating a plurality of first frequency-domain channel average responses (CARs) of pilot sub-carriers according to the plurality of pilot sub-carrier received signals and a plurality of pilot sub-carrier transmitted signals; determining a pilot sub-carrier number parameter for a sub-carrier block according to a statistical information of channel delay; splitting all sub-carriers into a plurality of sub-carrier blocks according to the pilot sub-carrier number parameter; and estimating second frequency-domain CARs of all sub-carriers by performing weighting average and interpolation based on the first frequency-domain CARs of the pilot sub-carriers in all sub-carrier blocks.

Communication device capable of channel estimation and method thereof

A method for inter-carrier interference cancellation is provided. A time-domain received signal is detected to obtain information of an inter-symbol interference free region. Multiple cyclic useful symbols are obtained from the time-domain received signal according to the information of the inter-symbol interference free region and a set of multi-step windowing coefficients is generated. Adjusted cyclic useful symbols are obtained by multiplying the cyclic useful symbols by the set of multi-step windowing coefficients, respectively, and then combined in a time domain to obtain a time-domain combination signal. The inter-carrier interference of each of sub-carriers of the time-domain combination signal is centralized on neighboring D sub-carriers. The time-domain combination signal is transformed into a frequency-domain received signal. The frequency-domain received signal and its corresponding channel response matrix are divided into overlapped signal blocks according to D. Successive inter-carrier interference cancellation is performed on each signal block in parallel to obtain estimation data.

Apparatus and method for inter-carrier interference cancellation

A signal receiving method of a receiver includes following steps. Multiple time-domain received signals are transformed into multiple frequency-domain received signals, and channel response matrices corresponding to the frequency-domain received signals are estimated. The frequency-domain received signals are STBC decoded and multiple original combination signals are obtained based on the corresponding channel response matrices. The frequency-domain received signals are rearranged, and the rearranged frequency-domain received signals are STBC decoded and multiple rearrangement combination signals are obtained based on the corresponding channel response matrices. The original combination signals and the rearrangement combination signals are randomly chosen and summed to obtain multiple complex signals. The complex signal with minimum interference power is selected and then the selected signal is used to cancel interference and compensate the channel effect to obtain the detected data.

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Jia-Wei Liu