Spreadtrum Communications Corporation

Agere Systems Inc.

Rockwell International Corporation

Spreadtrum Communications (shanghai) Co., Ltd.

Other

Jingdong Lin

Jian Mg Cheng

Datong Chen

Yan Mei Zhang

Jiayi Zhuang

Tong Zhao

Yueheng Sun

Shengquan Hu

Yuan Xu

Yanshan Shi

Zhiqun Chen

Ling Lv

Jin Ji

Yi Kang

Ker Zhang

Yao Jingjing

Hongchao Deng

Justine Zhuang

Kang Yi

Ying Tian

Fei Xie

A collision avoidance method for subscribers to fight for a right to speak of a multi-party conversation in a digital intercommunication system includes: sending a frame of instructions from the transmitting subscriber to the receiving subscribers for declaring a beginning of a fight for phase; in a subset of frame moments during the fight-for phase, sending maintenance information by the transmitting subscriber to the receiving subscribers; in another subset of the frame moments during the fight-for phase, broadcasting a request for the right to speak by the receiving subscribers intending to obtain the right to speak in turn, the fight-for phase not closing until at least one of the receiving subscribers sends out a request message; hearing the request message, ceasing fighting for the right to speak by the other receiving subscribers; and the receiving subscriber obtaining the right to speak as a new transmitting subscriber and beginning to speak.

Collision avoidance methods and apparatus for intercommunication systems

An apparatus and method of an outer Forward Error Correcting (FEC) code for a mobile broadcast service based on TD-SCDMA network is disclosed.

Error correction methods and apparatus for mobile broadcast services

Networking methods of a Single Frequency Network (SFN) in communication systems are disclosed.

TD-SCDMA based SFN network and associated methods

A networking method of single frequency network in a TD-SCDMA system includes the steps of: (1) deciding a networking configuration scheme by a universal mobile telecommunications system terrestrial radio access network (UTRAN), (2) based on the decided networking configuration scheme, configuring an intra-frequency cell info list information element and an inter-frequency cell info list information element in system information and measurement control messages by the UTRAN, (3) transmitting signals over a servicing area by the UTRAN, and (4) receiving the system information and measurement control messages by a user equipment (UE) from the UTRAN, acquiring working mode configuration information of each frequency and each timeslot of a serving cell and neighboring cells, and judging whether there are duplicated cell information elements in the intra-frequency cell info list information element or the inter-frequency cell info list information element.

Networking method of single frequency network in TD-SCDMA system

A mobile TV broadcast system based on TD-SCDMA network is disclosed herein.

Mobile TV broadcast systems and methods based on TD-SCDMA network

A technique is provided for automatic frequency offset correction in a wireless communication system. After demodulating and decoding a received signal in a receiver, channel estimation is also performed. The technique further includes re-encoding and re-modulating the decoded and demodulated signal with a coding and modulation scheme different from the received signal. The signal is reconstructed signal on the basis of the re-encoded and re-modulated signal and estimated channel characteristics. A frequency error is estimated based on the reconstructed signal and the original received signal. A threshold for a comparator is determined on the basis of the estimated offset amount determined by the comparison threshold and the estimated frequency offset.

Method and apparatus for automatic frequency correction

A channel optimization system for use with a communications channel and method of separating and encoding signals associated with the communications channel. In one embodiment, the channel optimization system includes an assorter that receives first and second signals having disparate transmission characteristics and selects one of the first and second signals. The channel optimization system also includes a translator, coupled to the assorter, that encodes the selected one of the first and second signals into a symbol representation as a function of a transmission characteristic associated therewith.

Channel optimization system

The embodiments of this invention relate generally to wireless telecommunication systems and, more particularly, to spread spectrum code division multiple access communication systems that employ a pilot-channel for path search and acquisition and for allocating fingers of a multifinger correlator, such as one found in a RAKE receiver. While the path search is an important part of the RAKE process, conventional path search methods require a large storage space for implementing the required correlation algorithms. One of the advantages of this invention is the noticeable reduction of the required storage space.

Path search method for CDMA communication systems

A method of frequency tracking based on recovered data, for use in an automatic frequency control subsystem at the receiver of a mobile station, is disclosed. The frequency tracking mechanism derives frequency error information from the recovered data to determine the adjustment needed at the mobile station's local voltage controlled oscillator in order to track the frequency of the base station.

Method and apparatus for frequency tracking based on recovered data

A method of detecting a silent frame at a mobile station in a GSM transmission is disclosed. The method comprises first receiving a data burst intended for the mobile station. Then, a signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR) is determined for the data burst. If the SINR is below a predetermined threshold, then the data burst is determined as from a silent frame.

Method and apparatus for silent frame detection in a GSM communications system

A method for processing a received signal at a mobile receiver of a wireless communications system is disclosed. The method comprises demodulating the received signal to obtain an analog base band signal and converting the analog base band signal into a digital base band signal. The signal strength of the digital base band signal is estimated and, using the estimation, the digital base band signal is scaled by a scaling factor. The digital base band signal is equalized into an equalized digital signal which is then rescaled by a resealing factor.

Receiver signal dynamic range compensation based on received signal strength indicator

A method of frequency estimation for a GSM communications system is disclosed. First, the a frequency control channel data burst is received and downsampled into a plurality of subsets. Then, the subsets are filtered using an auto-regressive filter. The filtered subsets are then correlated and summed to determine a parameter r. The estimated frequency is calculated based upon the parameter r.

Method and apparatus for frequency estimation using iterative filtering in a GSM communications system

One of the common channels of the GSM system is the paging channel (PCH) for alerting the mobile station of an incoming call. The PCH message is scattered among four bursts as a result of coding, interleaving, and mapping processes before transmission. It is a waste of power for a handset to turn on and analyze all four bursts if the PCH message is a dummy one. Ideally, a handset needs to be able to make a determination whether a PCH message is a dummy one in as short of a time as possible and, if it is, turn off the power. Embodiments of this invention include methods and apparatus for enabling a handset to make this determination by merely analyzing the first received burst. Since most of the PCH messages are dummy ones, the proposed methods will cause noticeable savings in the power consumption of the GSM handsets.

Dummy PCH block detection for power saving in GSM handset

A method of detecting a tone signal from complex input samples r(n) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises calculating the phase difference of the samples r(n) as a signal x(n). Next, the signal x(n) is filtered with a notch filter to generate a notched output y(n). The power of both the signal x(n) and the notched output y(n) is estimated. The ratio of the powers of the notched output y(n) and signal x(n) is calculated. The tone signal is detected if the ratio is below a predetermined threshold for a predetermined duration of time.

Phase difference based frequency correction channel detector for wireless communication system

A method of determining a time slot timing based upon an input sequence r(n) is disclosed. The method comprises using a frequency correction channel detector to determine a first time slot end time based upon the input sequence r(n). Then, the frequency correction channel detector is used to determine a second time slot end time based upon an order reversed input sequence r(n). A time slot midpoint is calculated as the average of the first time slot end time and second time slot end time. The time slot midpoint is then used to estimate the time slot timing.

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