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Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 01, 2016
Applicant:

Ntt Docomo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Petra Weitkemper, Munich, DE;

Katsutoshi Kusume, Munich, DE;

Jamal Bazzi, Munich, DE;

Mikio Iwamura, Munich, DE;

Assignee:

NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 27/26 (2006.01); H04L 1/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 27/264 (2013.01); H04L 1/0668 (2013.01); H04L 27/2698 (2013.01);
Abstract

How to apply an Alamouti like space-time coding (or transmit diversity) to a Filter Bank Multicarrier (FBMC) transmission using Offset QAM (OQAM). In FBMC, due to the orthogonality in the real domain only, an intrinsic interference results thereof for the imaginary component. Simply adapting the Alamouti scheme to FBMC OQAM is not obvious since the intrinsic interference terms are not equivalent at each antenna since it depends on the surrounding symbols. The application proposes to use a precoding symbol chosen to cancel out (zero) the intrinsic interference individually for each antenna, ie a code rate of 1/2 (sending one data symbol requires two time units). A more elaborated embodiment proposes to choose the contiguous precoding symbols such that a virtual QAM Alamouti scheme is achieved, without rate loss.


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