RU2574335C2 - Methods and arrangements for communications in low-power wireless communication networks - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: radio engineering, communication.

SUBSTANCE: invention can be used in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) wireless communication systems operating in the 1 GHz and lower frequency bands. A physical layer logic circuit may implement orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbols encoded with 32 subcarriers such as twenty data subcarriers, four pilot subcarriers, seven guard subcarriers, and one direct current (DC) subcarrier. Many embodiments may transform the OFDM symbols between frequency and time domains with a 32-point, fast Fourier transform or inverse fast Fourier transform. Some embodiments may up-convert and transmit a communication signal with the OFDM symbols at 1 MHz. Further embodiments may receive and detect a communication signal with the OFDM symbols at 1 MHz.

EFFECT: high transmission channel capacity.

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Description

State of the art

Embodiments of the invention relate to the field of wireless communications. More specifically, embodiments of the invention relate to the field of communication protocols between wireless transmitters and receivers.

Brief Description of the Drawings

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of an exemplary wireless network comprising a plurality of communication devices, including a plurality of fixed or mobile communication devices;

FIG. 1A-D depict alternative embodiments of an OFDM symbol for operating 1 MHz transceivers, as shown in FIG. one;

FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of an apparatus for generating and transmitting communications based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) in a wireless network;

FIG. 2A-D depict alternative embodiments in the form of a table with parameters arranged line by line, and the columns indicate data rotation for the operation of 1 MHz transceivers in FIG. 2;

FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of a flowchart of an algorithm for transmitting communications by a transmitter, as shown in FIG. 2; and

FIG. 4 shows an embodiment of a flowchart of an algorithm for receiving communications by a receiver, as shown in FIG. 2.

Detailed Description of Embodiments

The following is a detailed description of the new embodiments depicted in the accompanying drawings. However, the number of proposed parts is not intended to limit the expected variations of the described embodiments; on the contrary, the claims and detailed description cover all modifications, equivalents and alternatives that do not go beyond the essence and scope of the present ideas, as defined in the attached claims. The following detailed descriptions are designed to explain such embodiments to those skilled in the art. Embodiments may include orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems operating at 1 GHz and lower frequency ranges. In the frequency ranges of 1 GHz and lower, the bandwidth is limited, therefore, an IEEE 802.11n / ac system that uses a bandwidth of 20, 40, 80 and 160 MHz cannot be applied in some geographical regions. In many embodiments, systems have a bandwidth of about 1 to 10 MHz. In several embodiments, in a system such as 802.11n / ac, the clock frequency may be reduced to accommodate reduced bandwidth. For example, many embodiments reduce the clock frequency by N, so 20, 40, 80, and 160 MHz are divided by N, where N can take a value of, for example, 10, ensuring operability with bandwidths of 2, 4, 8, and 16 MHz . Embodiments may also provide a 1 MHz bandwidth in another manner. In some embodiments, the calculation of the 2, 4, 8, and 16 MHz bandwidths may be based on the IEEE 802.11ac system. In other embodiments, the signal calculation may be different from IEEE 802.11ac systems, removing, for example, signal calculations that are not needed at lower bandwidths.

In many embodiments, the physical layer logic may implement specific signal calculations for operating at 1 MHz. For example, in a 1 MHz operation, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbols may comprise twenty information subcarriers (tones), four pilot subcarriers, seven guard subcarriers, and one DC subcarrier. In other embodiments, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbols may comprise twenty-four information subcarriers (tones), two pilot subcarriers, five guard subcarriers, and one DC subcarrier. In other embodiments, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbols may comprise twenty-two information subcarriers (tones), four pilot subcarriers, five guard subcarriers, and one DC subcarrier. In other embodiments, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbols may comprise twenty-two information subcarriers (tones), two pilot subcarriers, seven guard subcarriers, and one DC subcarrier.

Such embodiments may transform orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbols between the frequency and time domains by a 32-point fast Fourier transform or an inverse fast Fourier transform. Some embodiments may upconvert and transmit a communication signal with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbols at a frequency of one megahertz. Additional embodiments may receive and detect a communication signal with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbols at a frequency of one megahertz.

Some embodiments may provide, for example, an internal and / or external “smart” power system and parameter control services. For example, some embodiments may allow the use of sensors to measure the consumption of electricity, water, gas and / or other utilities provided for a home or homes within a specific area, and transmit data on the amount of consumption of these services wirelessly to a measurement substation. Additional embodiments may use sensors to provide patient care services at home, in a clinic or hospital to monitor patient status parameters related to the main patient vital signs, such as drop detection, pill monitoring, weight monitoring, sleep apnea, blood sugar, heart rhythms and the like. Embodiments intended for such services typically require much lower data rates and significantly lower (ultra-low) power consumption compared to devices provided in IEEE 802.11n / ac systems.

Some embodiments reuse IEEE 802.11n / ac systems with new features that satisfy the requirements of lower data rates and ultra-low power consumption, reuse hardware and reduce implementation costs. Additional embodiments employ multi-stream combining. Several embodiments do not use outdated tuning methods and outdated signatures and do not implement multi-user mode, multi-channel input - multi-channel output (MIMO). And some embodiments utilize beamforming technology.

The logic circuits, modules, devices, and interfaces described herein may perform functions that may be implemented in hardware and / or code. Equipment and / or code may contain software, firmware, microcode, processors, end machines, chipsets, or combinations thereof, designed to perform functions.

Embodiments may facilitate the establishment of wireless communications. Some embodiments may include low-power wireless communications such as Bluetooth ®, wireless local area networks (WLANs), wireless metropolitan area networks (WMANs), wireless personal area networks (WPAN), cellular networks, the IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standard 802.11-2007, the IEEE Standard for Information Technology - Communications and Information Exchange between Systems - Local and Urban Networks - Specific Requirements - Part 11: Wireless Local Area Network Media Access Control (MAC) and Physical Specifications level (PHY) (http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.11-2007.pdf), network communications, messaging systems and smart devices to facilitate the interaction between such devices. In addition, some embodiments of wireless communications may include one antenna, while other embodiments may use multiple antennas.

Turning now to FIG. 1, an embodiment of a wireless communication system 1000 is shown. The wireless communication system 1000 includes a communication device 1010 that is connected to a network 1005 by wire or wirelessly. A communication device 1010 can establish wireless communication with a plurality of communication devices 1030, 1050 and 1055 through a network 1005. These communication devices 1010, 1030, 1050 and 1055 can include sensors, stations, access points, hubs, switches, routers, computers, laptop computers, laptops, cell phones, PDAs (personal digital assistants) or other wireless devices. Thus, communication devices can be mobile or fixed. For example, communication device 1010 may include measuring substations for monitoring water consumption within a community. Each of the houses within the community may contain a communication device, such as a communication device 1030 and a communication device 1030, that can be integrated with or connected to a water consumption meter. Periodically, the communication device 1030 may initiate communication with the measuring substation for transmitting data related to the water consumption data over a one-MHz channel. The communication device 1030 can encode symbols on twenty information subcarriers, four pilot subcarriers, seven guard subcarriers and one DC subcarrier and convert the symbols from the frequency domain to the time domain to create a communication signal. Moreover, the measuring station or other communication device can periodically initiate data exchange with the communication device 1030 via the one-MHz channel, interleaving the symbols with five columns multiplied by 4 Nbpscs (N bits per encoded symbol), for example, to update the software and hardware providing a communication device 1030. In other embodiments, the communication device 1030 can only send a response signal to the request and cannot contain a logic circuit, Otori initiates communication.

In other embodiments, communications device 1030 can encode characters with twenty-four information subcarriers (tones), two pilot subcarriers, five guard subcarriers, and one DC subcarrier and convert characters from the frequency domain to the time domain to create the communication signal. In other embodiments, communications device 1030 can encode characters with twenty-two information subcarriers (tones), four pilot subcarriers, five guard subcarriers, and one DC subcarrier and convert characters from the frequency domain to the time domain to create the communication signal. In other embodiments, communications device 1030 can encode characters with twenty two information subcarriers (tones), two pilot subcarriers, seven guard subcarriers, and one DC subcarrier, and convert characters from the frequency domain to the time domain to create the communication signal.

In other embodiments, communication device 1010 may provide for offloading data. For example, communication devices, which are low-power sensors, may include a data offload circuit, for example, establish communication using Wi-Fi, with another communication device, via a cellular network, and the like. in order to reduce power consumption while waiting for access, for example, to a measuring station and / or increasing the bandwidth. Communication devices that receive data from sensors, such as measuring stations, may include a data offload circuit, for example, establish a connection via Wi-Fi, another communication device, a cellular network, and the like. in order to reduce the load on the network 1005.

Network 1005 may be the interdependence of a number of networks. For example, the network 1005 can connect to a global network, such as the Internet or an intranet, and can communicate with wired or mobile local devices through one or more hubs, routers, or switches. In the present embodiment, the network 1005 communicatively connects communication devices 1010, 1030, 1050, and 1055.

Communication devices 1010 and 1030 comprise a memory 1011 and 1031, a logic level 1081, and a medium access control (MAC) sublayer 1038, respectively. A memory 1011, 1031, such as random access memory (DRAM), may store frames, preambles, and preamble structures or parts thereof. Frames, also referred to as MAC layer messaging protocol data units (MPDUs), and preamble structures can establish and maintain synchronized communication between the transmitting device and the receiving device.

The logical and MAC sublayer 1018, 1038 can generate frames and the physical layer of the logical channel 1019, 1039 can generate physical layer data units (PPDUs). More specifically, frame forming means 1012 and 1032 can generate frames and data block generating means 1013 and 1033 can generate PPDUs. The data block generating means 1013 and 1033 can generate PPDUs by encapsulating a payload containing frames generated by the frame forming means 1012 and 1032 to prefix the payload to be transmitted on one or more radio frequency channels through the antenna devices 1024 and 1044, respectively.

Communication devices 1010, 1030, 1050, and 1055 may each contain a transceiver (RX / TX), such as transceivers (RX / TX) 1020 and 1040. In many embodiments, transceivers 1020 and 1040 perform orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). OFDM is a method of encoding digital data at several carrier frequencies. OFDM is a frequency division multiplexing scheme that is used as a multi-carrier digital modulation method. A large number of closely spaced orthogonal subcarriers are used to transmit data in the form of OFDM symbols. OFDM symbols are divided into several parallel streams or channels, one for each subcarrier and encoded by subcarriers on which OFDM symbols will be transmitted to the receiver, such as twenty information subcarriers, seven guard subcarriers, four pilot subcarriers and one DC subcarrier. Each subcarrier is modulated at a low symbol rate modulation scheme, maintaining a common data rate, similar to conventional single carrier modulation schemes in the same frequency band.

An OFDM system uses multiple carriers, or “tones,” for data transmission, pilot, protection, and nullification. Tone data is used to transmit information between the transmitter and receiver through one of the channels. Pilot signals are used to maintain channels and can provide time / frequency and channel tracking information. Protective tones can be inserted between characters, such as short preparatory field (STF) and long preparatory field (LTF), during transmission to prevent intersymbol interference (ISI), which may result from the multipath effect. These protective tones also match the spectral mask to the signal. DC nullification can be used to simplify direct conversion schemes at the receiver.

Each transceiver 1020, 1040 contains an RF transmitter and an RF receiver. The RF transmitter comprises an OFDM module 1022 that superimposes digital data, OFDM symbols encoded with tones, on the RF frequencies, also referred to as subcarriers, for transmitting data by electromagnetic radiation. In the present embodiment, the OFDM module 1022 may superimpose digital data in the form of OFDM symbols encoded with tones on the subcarriers for transmission. For the 1 MHz frequency band, in some embodiments, OFDM symbols may comprise 20 information tones, seven guard tones, four pilot tones, and one DC tone. In other embodiments, OFDM symbols may comprise 24 information tones, two pilot tones, five guard tones, and one DC tone; 22 information tones, four pilot tones, five guard tones and one DC tone; or 22 information tones, two pilot tones, seven guard tones, and one DC tone.

FIG. 1A illustrates an embodiment of an OFDM symbol 1060. An OFDM module 1022 can generate various OFDM symbols for different bandwidths, such as 2 MHz, 4 MHz, 8 MHz, and 16 MHz, and can generate an OFDM symbol 1060 for a channel with a 1 MHz bandwidth , for transceivers, such as the transceivers in FIG. 1, which corresponds to the inverse fast Fourier transform of 32 points. The OFDM symbol 1060 contains 32 tones, also called subcarriers, indexed from -16 to 15. These 32 tones include 20 information tones, seven guard tones, four pilot tones, and one DC tone . The four low-frequency tones are protective tones provided for filtering with decreasing frequency and increasing frequency. The zero-tone tone frequency is a constant current tone and is designed to suppress radio frequency interference. The DC tone may comprise a tone at a carrier frequency of, for example, 1 MHz. And the frequencies of tones of information and pilot signals are provided between the indices -12 to -1 and the indices from 1 to 12.

The RF receiver contains an OFDM module 1042, which receives electromagnetic energy at the RF frequency, extracts digital data from it. For 1 MHz operation, OFDM 1042 can extract OFDM symbols containing 20 information tones, seven guard tones and one DC tone, such as the OFDM symbol 1060 shown in FIG. 1A. In other embodiments, OFDM symbols may be encoded as an OFDM symbol 1062, 1064, or 1066, as shown in FIG. 1B-D, respectively, with interleaver configurations described in tables 252, 254, or 256, respectively.

FIG. 1 may depict several different embodiments including a multi-channel input-multi-channel output (MIMO) system, for example, with four spatial streams, and may depict generating systems in which one or more of communication devices 1010, 1030, 1050 and 1055 comprises a receiver and / or transmitter with a single antenna, including a system with one input and one output (SISO), a system with one input and many outputs (SIMO) and a system with many inputs and one output (MISO). The wireless communication system 1000 shown in FIG. 1, is intended to represent the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11ah standard system. Similarly, devices 1010, 1030, 1050, and 1055 are intended to represent IEEE 802.11ah devices.

The OFDM module 1022, 1032 converts the information signals into signals that are supplied to the elements of the antenna array 1024. The antenna array 1024 is an array of separate, separately excitable antenna elements. The signals applied to the elements of the antenna array 1024 cause radiation from the antenna array 1024 in one to four spatial channels. Thus, each spatial channel formed can carry information for one or more communication devices 1030, 1050, and 1055. Similarly, communication device 1030 includes a transceiver 1040 for receiving and transmitting signals from and to communication device 1010. Transceiver 1040 may include an antenna array 1044 capable of communicating with IEEE 802.11ah devices.

FIG. 2 illustrates an embodiment of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) device for communicating in a wireless network. The apparatus comprises a transceiver 200 connected to a medium access control (MAC) sublayer logic 201 and a physical layer logic 202. The MAC sublayer logic 201 may generate a frame and the physical layer logic 202 may encapsulate a frame (MPDU) with a preamble for generating a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) for transmission through the transceiver 200. For example, a frame generating means may generate a frame including the type of field that determines the fact of whether the frame is a control, control or information frame, and the subtype of the field to indicate the function of the frame. A control frame may include a frame ready to be sent, or a frame free to transmit. The control frame may comprise a navigation frame, a verification response frame, a frame in the response association, or a frame in the reassociation of the response. And the type of data frame is for data transmission.

The transceiver 200 includes a receiver 204 and a transmitter 206. The transmitter 206 may include one or more encoders 208, an interleaver 209, a modulator 210, and an OFDM module 212. The encoder 208 of the transmitter 206 receives data for transmission from the physical layer logic 202. The physical layer logic 202 may send data to the transceiver 200 in blocks or characters, such as data bytes. Encoder 208 may encode data using any of a number of algorithms currently known or to be developed. Encoding may be performed to achieve one or more of many different goals. For example, encoding may be performed to reduce the average number of bits that must be sent to transmit each symbol of information to be transmitted. Encoding may be performed in order to reduce the likelihood of an error occurring in detecting a symbol in the receiver. Thus, the encoder can introduce redundancy into the data stream. Adding redundancy increases the bandwidth necessary for transmitting information, but reduces errors and provides signal transmission at a lower power. Encryption may also contain encryption for security.

In the present embodiment, encoder 208 may perform binary convolutional coding (BCC) or low density parity check (LDPC) coding, as well as other encodings. The signal from the output of encoder 208 is supplied to interleaver 209 as a data stream. In some embodiments, a stream analyzer may be located between encoder 208 and interleaver 209 to parse data into multiple data streams.

An interleaver 209 can compress the bits of the data stream, often referred to as spatial streams at this stage, to prevent long sequences of adjacent bits with noise from entering the decoder input at the receiver. An interleaver 209 can interleave data bits in a data stream by storing data in rows of memory, such as a buffer, cache, or other memory, interleaver 209 then outputs columns of data. Columns can include a bit of data from each of the rows of data stored in memory. The number of rows and columns depends on the number of subcarriers, as well as the number of encoded bits on one carrier (Nbpscs) for each spatial stream.

FIG. 2A illustrates an interleaving table 250 for a 1 MHz bandwidth. Table 250 describes the number of rows and columns that can be implemented for interleaving using, for example, an interleaver 209 for a channel with 1 MHz bandwidth using 32 subcarriers, including 20 information subcarriers, seven guard subcarriers, four pilot subcarriers and one DC subcarrier. For example, the first row of table 250 shows 1 * Nbpscs rows in 2 columns. Nbpscs may equal the number of coded bits per symbol (Ncbps) times the number of subcarriers (Nsd) of information or (Nbpscs = Ncbps * Nsd). Ncbps can equal Nsd times the modulation order (M), i.e. (Ncbps = Nsd * M), in which M is 1 for BPSK, 2 for QPSK, 4 for 16-QAM, 6 for 64-QAM, 8 for 256 QAM and 10 for 1024 QAM. Thus, the number of rows (N ROWS) for 1 MHz bandwidth and BPSK modulation and 20 information subcarriers in the first row of table 250 is Nrows = 1 * (20 * 1) * 20, where Npscs = 400, Ncbps = 20 and M = one.

Additional entries in table 250 also include 5 * Nbpscs rows of 4 columns and 4 * Nbpscs rows of 5 columns that are square than other entries in table 250. The actual number of rows can be determined as shown in the calculations above for the first rows of table 250. FIG. 2B-D describe alternative embodiments of interleaving tables 252, 254, and 256 based on respective OFDM symbols 1062, 1064, and 1066, respectively.

Modulator 210 of transmitter 206 receives data from interleaver 209. Modulator 210 is designed to convert each block of binary data received from encoder 208 into a unique continuous signal that can be transmitted using an antenna after conversion with increasing frequency and gain. Modulator 210 superimposes the received data blocks on the sine wave of the selected frequency. More specifically, the modulator 210 distributes the data blocks to a corresponding set of discrete sinusoid amplitudes, or a set of discrete sinusoid phases, or a set of discrete frequency shifts with respect to the frequency of the sinusoid. The output of modulator 210 may be a strip signal.

In one embodiment, modulator 210 may perform quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) by superimposing two separate k-bit symbols from the information sequence onto two quadrature carriers, cos (2πft) and sin (2πft). By means of QAM, two digital bitstreams are transmitted by changing (modulating) the amplitudes of two carrier waves using the amplitude shift keying (ASK) of the digital modulation scheme. Two carrier waves do not coincide in phase with each other by 90 ° and, thus, are called quadrature carriers or quadrature components. The modulated waves are summed, and the resulting signal can be a combination of phase shift keying (PSK) and amplitude shift keying (ASK). An integer of at least two phases and at least two amplitudes can be used.

In some embodiments, the modulator 210 distributes data blocks received from the encoder 208 using a four-point layout equidistant in a circle, which is referred to as quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK). With four phases, QPSK can encode two bits per character.

In another embodiment, the modulator 210 distributes the blocks of data received from the encoder 208 into a set of discrete carrier phases to produce a phase shift key (PSK) signal. The N-phase of the PSK signal is generated by distributing blocks of k = log ₂ N binary digits of the input sequence into one of the N corresponding phases θ = 2π (n-1) / n, where n is a positive integer, and which is less than or equal to N. Obtained equivalent low-frequency signal can be represented as

where g (t-nT) is a reference pulse whose shape can be optimized to increase the likelihood of accurate detection at the receiver, for example, by reducing intersymbol interference. Such embodiments may use binary phase shift keying (BPSK), the simplest form of phase shift keying (PSK). The BPSK uses two phases, which are separated by 180 °, which is the most reliable of all PSKs, because it accepts the highest level of noise and distortion for the demodulator. There are two signal phase states in BPSK: 0 and 180 degrees. Data is often differentially encoded before modulation.

In yet another embodiment, the modulator 210 distributes the blocks of data received from the encoder 208 alternately on two channels or streams, called I channel (“phased”) and Q channel (“phase quadrature”), which is called quadrature phase shift keying (SQPSK ) SQPSK is a phase shift keying method in which the phase transition of a carrier wave signal is 90 degrees or 1/4 cycle at a time. A 90 degree phase shift is known as phase quadrature. Single-phase transition does not exceed 90 degrees. There are four states in SQPSK: 0, +90, -90, and 180 degrees.

The output of modulator 209 is supplied to orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) module 212. OFDM module 212 may include a space-time block coding (STBC) module 211, a digital beamforming (DBF) module 214, and an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) module 215. The STBC module 211 may receive bitmap data from a modulator 209 corresponding to one or more spatial streams, and may distribute spatial streams to more spatio-temporal streams (also commonly referred to as data streams). In some embodiments, the implementation of STBC 211 can be controlled to pass spatial streams for situations in which, for example, the number of spatial streams is the maximum number of space-time streams. Additional embodiments may not use STBC.

OFDM module 212 superimposes or distributes modulated data generated as OFDM symbols onto a plurality of orthogonal subcarriers, such that OFDM symbols are encoded by subcarriers or tones. In some embodiments, OFDM symbols are provided to a digital beamforming module (DBF) module 214. Digital beamforming technologies can be used to increase the efficiency and throughput of the wireless system. Typically, a digital beamforming method utilizes digital signal processing algorithms that are implemented on received signals that are transmitted by a plurality of antenna elements. For example, a plurality of spatial channels may be formed and each spatial channel may be independently controlled to maximize the power of a signal transmitted and received from each of the plurality of user terminals. Additionally, a digital beamforming method can be applied to minimize multipath fading and avoid intra-channel interference.

OFDM module 212 may also comprise an inverse Fourier transform module that performs inverse discrete Fourier transform (IDFT) OFDM symbols. In the present embodiment, the IDFT may comprise an IDFT module 215 for performing IDFT data. When using the 1 MHz IDFT bandwidth, the 215 module performs the inverse DFT of 32 data stream points.

The output signal of the IDFT module 215 can be upconverted to the highest carrier frequency, or upconverted integrated conversion can be performed. Shifting the signal to a much higher frequency before transmission allows the use of a practical array of antennas. That is, the higher the transmission frequency, the smaller the antenna can be. Thus, the boost converter multiplies the modulated signal by a sine wave to obtain a signal with a carrier frequency that is the sum of the center frequency of the signal and the frequency of the sine wave. The action is based on trigonometric identity:

The signal at the total frequency (A + B) is transmitted and the signal at the difference frequency (A-B) is filtered out. Thus, a band-pass filter is provided for an ideal filtering process of everything except the transmitted information at the central (sum) carrier frequency.

The transceiver 200 may also include an antenna splitter 216 connected to the antenna array 218. Thus, in this embodiment, one antenna array is used for transmission and reception. During transmission, the signal passes through an antenna splitter 216, which delivers the converted signal carrying information at an increased frequency to the antenna. During transmission, the antenna splitter 216 prevents the signals to be transmitted to the input of the receiver 204. Upon receipt, the information signals received by the antenna array pass through the antenna splitter 216 to provide a signal from the antenna array to the receiver 204. The antenna splitter 216 then prevents the received signals to the input of the transmitter 206. Thus, the antenna splitter 216 acts as a switch for alternately connecting the receiver 204 and the transmitter 206 to the antenna elements.

Antenna array 218 emits information signals in a time-varying spatial distribution of electromagnetic energy that can be received using a receiver antenna. The receiver may then extract information from the received signal. Antenna elements can form numerous spatial channels that can be controlled to optimize system performance. Mutually, several spatial channels in the radiation pattern of the receiving antenna can be divided into different spatial channels. Thus, the radiation pattern of the antenna array 218 can be highly selective. Antenna array 218 may be implemented using a printed circuit board using metallization technology. For example, in the manufacture of antenna array 218, an asymmetric strip line, a symmetrical strip line, a slot line, and emitters can be used.

Transceiver 200 may include a receiver 204 for receiving, demodulating, and decoding information transmitted by communication signals. Communication signals may contain, for example, 32 tones at 1 MHz carrier frequency. 32 tones may contain 20 tones of information, 7 guard tones, 4 pilot tones, and one DC tone, such as the OFDM packet 1060 shown in FIG. 1A. For example, an IEEE 802.11ah compliant data collection station can periodically receive data from low-power sensors that are integrated into IEEE 802.11ah compliant wireless communication devices. The sensors can operate in low power mode for a period of time, then they are activated periodically to collect data and periodically establish communication with a data collection station to transmit data collected using the sensor. In some embodiments, the sensor may actively initiate communication with the data collection station, transmit data indicating communication capabilities, and start transmitting data to the data collection station in response to the CTS or the like. In other embodiments, the sensor may transmit data to the data collection station in response to communication initiation by the data collection station. The receiver 204 may comprise one or more OFDM module 222, a demodulator 224, a deinterleaver 225, and a decoder 226. OFDM module 222 extracts the signal information as OFDM symbols from a plurality of subcarriers on which the signal information is modulated. For example, OFDM symbols may comprise data associated with 20 information subcarriers, four pilot subcarriers, seven guard subcarriers, and one DC subcarrier.

OFDM module 222 may include a fast Fourier transform (FFT) module 219, a DBF module 220, and an STBC module 221. Received signals are supplied from the antenna elements 218, down-converted to a lower frequency, and fed to the FFT module 219 to convert communication signals from time to time area to frequency domain. DBF module 220 converts N antenna signals into L information signals. And the STBC module 221 can convert data streams from space-time streams to spatial streams. In one embodiment, demodulation is performed in parallel on the FFT output. In another embodiment, a separate demodulator 224 performs demodulation separately.

Demodulator 224 demodulates spatial streams. Demodulation is the process of extracting data from spatial streams to obtain demodulated spatial streams. The method of demodulation depends on the way in which this information is modulated on the carrier of the received signal, and such information is included in the transmission vector (TXVECTOR) located in the communication signal. So, for example, if the modulation is BPSK, then demodulation includes phase detection for converting the phase information into a binary sequence. Demodulation provides a sequence of information bits for deinterleaver 225.

Reversed interleaver 225 may deinterleave the sequence of information bits. For example, interleaver 225 may store a sequence of bits in columns in memory and remove or remove bits from memory in rows to interleave bits of information. Decoder 226 decodes the interleaved data from demodulator 224 and transmits the decoded information, MPDU, to the MAC sublayer logic 202.

Those skilled in the art will understand that a transceiver may contain numerous additional function blocks not shown in FIG. 2, and that receiver 204 and transmitter 206 may be different devices, rather than being in the same transceiver. For example, embodiments of the transceiver may include random access memory (DRAM), a reference oscillator, a filtering scheme, spatial mappers, cyclic shift insertion modules, guard interval insertion modules, a synchronization circuit, possibly several frequency conversion steps and several amplification steps and etc. In addition, some of the functional modules shown in FIG. 2, can be integrated. For example, a digital beamforming module may be combined with an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing module.

In FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of a flowchart for transmitting communications using a transmitter, as shown in FIG. 2. The block diagram of the algorithm 300 begins with the reception of a frame from the frame forming means (element 305). The MAC sublayer logic may generate a frame for transmission to another communication device and may transmit the frame as an MPDU to a physical layer data generating unit that converts the data into a packet that can be transmitted to another communication device. The data generating unit may generate a preamble for encapsulating PSDUs (MPDUs from the frame forming means) in a PPDU form for transmission (element 310). In some embodiments, more than one MPDU may be encapsulated in a PPDU.

The process shown in the flowchart of algorithm 300 continues with a transmitter, such as transmitter 206, receiving PPDUs from a physical layer logic circuit. The transmitter may encode the PPDU with binary convolutional coding (BCC) or a low density parity check code (element 315) to control data transmission errors. More specifically, the transmitter can encode PPDUs through one or more coding schemes described in the PPDU preamble, such as BCC or LDPC.

The transmitter may compress the frame in one or more data streams (element 320). For example, a transmitter seal may receive a data frame in several data streams, for example, from a stream analyzer. The sealant can then store data from data streams in memory rows and output the data as data streams from memory columns, compressing the data bits for transmission.

The transmitter may modulate the data streams through a modulation and coding scheme indicated by the preamble, such as BPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM, 256-QAM, QPSK or SQPSK (element 325). For example, a data layout mapper can distribute sequences of bits in a data stream over layout points (complex numbers).

The OFDM transmitter module can distribute data stream streams of data points as OFDM symbols encoded, for example, with 32 tones in the 1 MHz bandwidth of the transmission channels (element 330). For example, the OFDM module may include an STBC encoder for distributing spatial streams of data layout points into space-time streams and a spatial resolver distributes space-time streams for transmission channels in the form of OFDM symbols encoded with 32 tones, such as 20 tones of information, seven guard tones, four pilot tones, and one DC tone. The spatial mapper can provide a direct distribution in which the data layout points from each space-time stream are distributed directly over the transmission channels (one-to-one correspondence). Spatial distribution can provide spatial expansion, in which the vectors of the data pickup points from all space-time streams are expanded by matrix multiplication to form an OFDM input encoded with 32 tones for all transmission channels. Or, a spatial mapper can provide a DBF in which each vector of data pickup points from all space-time streams is multiplied by a matrix of control vectors to obtain OFDM symbols encoded by 32 tones as input to the transmission channels.

The transmitter can convert OFDM symbols encoded, for example, with 32 tones for operating in the 1 MHz bandwidth, to the time domain using an inverse Fourier transform, such as a 32-point inverse Fourier transform (element 335). After that, the transmitter can convert the OFDM symbols with increasing frequency for transmission (element 340) and transmit the OFDM symbols as a communication signal via an antenna (n) to transmit the signal to another communication device (element 345). If it is necessary to transfer a larger number of frames (element 360), then the process can start again on element 305.

In FIG. 4 shows an embodiment of a flowchart for a receiver 400 for detecting and receiving communications, as shown in FIG. 2. The process, as shown in the flowchart of algorithm 400, begins with a receiver, such as a receiver 204, that detects and receives a communication signal from the transmitter through one or more antennas, such as an antenna element of the antenna array 218 (element 405). The receiver can downconvert the communication signal (element 410) and convert the communication signal to the frequency domain using, for example, a 32-point FFT for the 1 MHz bandwidth of the communication signal (element 415).

The transmitter can extract OFDM symbols encoded with 32 tones for the 1 MHz channel from the communication signal (element 420) and demodulate OFDM symbols to obtain demodulated symbol data streams (element 425). For example, a demodulator, such as demodulator 224, demodulates the information signal through, for example, BPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM, 256-QAM, QSPK or SQPSK and outputs the signal as a bit stream to a deinterleaver, such as deinterleaver 225 to FIG. 2.

Reverse interleaver can reverse the interleave bits in the bit stream, storing bits, for example, in 5 columns and deleting bits in 4 * Nbpscs lines. And a decoder, such as decoder 226, decodes the signaling information from the deinterleaver to determine PPDUs (element 435) through, for example, BCC or LDPC. The transmitter may then extract the MPDUs from the PPDUs (element 440) and transmit the MPDUs to the MAC sublayer logic, such as the MAC sublayer logic 202 (element 445).

Another embodiment is implemented as a software product for implementing the systems and methods described with reference to FIG. 1-4. Some embodiments may take the form of a fully hardware implementation, all software, or an embodiment comprising both hardware implementation elements and software elements. One embodiment is implemented as software that includes, but is not limited to, firmware, resident software, microcode, etc.

Moreover, embodiments may take the form of a computer program product (or machine-accessible product) available for use by a computer or computer-readable medium, providing program code for use by or in connection with a computer or any system. For the purposes of this description, a computer or machine-readable medium available for use may be any device that may contain, store, communicate, distribute, or deliver a program for use, by or in connection with an instruction execution system, device, or device.

The carrier may be an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared or semiconductor system (or device or device). Examples of computer-readable media include a semiconductor or solid state memory, magnetic tape, a removable computer diskette, random access memory (RAM), read-only memory (ROM), a hard disk and an optical disk. Current examples of optical discs include a read-only compact disc (CD-ROM), a rewritable compact disc (CD-R / W), and a DVD.

The data processing system is designed to store and / or execute program code and will include at least one processor connected directly or indirectly to memory elements via the system bus. The memory elements may include local memory used in the actual execution of the program code, a storage device of data arrays and cache memory, which provide temporary storage of at least some program code in order to reduce the number of times the code data arrays are retrieved from the storage device lead time.

The logic circuit, as described above, may be part of an integrated circuit chip. The design of the chip is carried out in the graphic computer programming language and is stored on the computer’s storage medium (for example, on a disk, tape, physical hard disk or virtual hard disk, for example, when accessing a network storage device).

If the manufacturer does not produce integrated circuits or photolithographic masks used for the manufacture of microcircuits, the manufacturer transfers the resulting design using physical means (for example, by providing a copy of the information carrier on which the design is stored) or electronically (for example, via the Internet) directly or indirectly to such manufacturers. The stored design is then converted to the appropriate format (e.g. GDSII) for production.

The resulting integrated circuits can be supplied by the manufacturer in the form of a raw plate (that is, in the form of a single plate having several open-circuit microcircuits), as a open-chip or in a housing. In the latter case, the crystal is installed in one crystal case (for example, a plastic crystal holder case with type J terminals for surface mounting on all four sides that are attached to the motherboard or another higher-level case) or in a multi-chip integrated module (for example, a ceramic case which has one or both surface or internal wiring). In any case, the crystal is then integrated with other crystals, discrete circuit elements and / or other signal processing devices, as part of either (a) an intermediate product, for example, a motherboard, or (b) the final product.

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1. A communication device configured to establish wireless communication through multiplexing (OFDM) with orthogonal frequency division, the communication device comprising:
a data unit linker configured to generate a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU);
an interleaver logic configured to interleave the bits of a data stream generated for a 1 MHz (1 MHz) bandwidth, in which the bits are arranged in a table having eight columns and 3 * N _BPSCS rows, where N _BPSCS indicates the number of encoded bits per subcarrier; and
An OFDM module configured to convert PPDUs to a plurality of OFDM symbols, an OFDM symbol is encoded by a plurality of subcarriers, a plurality of subcarriers includes twenty-four data subcarriers, two pilot subcarriers, five guard subcarriers, and one DC subcarrier. 2. A communication device according to claim 1, comprising:
modulator logic configured to modulate the plurality of subcarriers by a modulation format selected from a group containing binary phase shift keying (BPSK), 64-point quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) data mapping, 256-point QAM data mapping, quadrature phase shift keying ( QPSK). 3. The communication device of claim 2, wherein the modulator logic is configured to modulate said plurality of subcarriers with a coding rate selected from the group consisting of coding rate 1/2, coding rate 3/4, coding rate 2/3, and speed 5/6 encoding. 4. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the OFDM module comprises:
logic of the inverse discrete Fourier transform, configured to perform the inverse discrete Fourier transform (IDFT) on a variety of subcarriers. 5. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the OFDM module comprises:
a digital beamforming module, configured to convert a plurality of information signals into a plurality of antenna signals. 6. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the OFDM module comprises: a space-time block code (STBC) module, configured to deploy multiple spatial streams into multiple spatial-temporal streams. 7. The communication device according to claim 1, configured to transmit an OFDM signal wirelessly over a 1 MHz channel. 8. A communication device configured to establish wireless communication by means of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), the communication device comprising:
antenna array; and
a receiver comprising:
a circuit configured to couple to an antenna array and configured to receive a plurality of OFDM symbols, an OFDM symbol encoded by a plurality of subcarriers, a plurality of subcarriers includes twenty-four data subcarriers, two pilot subcarriers, five guard subcarriers and one forward current subcarrier (DC); and
deinterleaver logic, configured to recover the original bit sequence for the 1 MHz (1 MHz) frequency band and arrange the bit sequence in a table having eight columns and 3 * N _BPSCS rows, where N _BPSCS indicates the number of encoded bits per subcarrier. 9. The communication device according to claim 8, in which the receiver contains:
demodulator logic configured to demodulate the plurality of subcarriers by a modulation format selected from a group containing binary phase shift keying (BPSK), 64-point quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) data mapping, 256-point QAM data mapping, quadrature phase shift keying ( QPSK). 10. The communication device according to claim 9, in which
the demodulator logic is configured to demodulate the plurality of subcarriers based on a coding rate selected from the group consisting of coding rate 1/2, coding rate 3/4, coding rate 2/3, and coding rate 5/6. 11. The communication device according to claim 8, in which
the receiver contains a logic circuit of the inverse discrete Fourier transform, configured to convert the communication signal from the time domain to the frequency domain. 12. The communication device according to claim 8, in which
the receiver is configured to receive an OFDM signal wirelessly over a 1 MHz channel. 13. The wireless communication system is configured to establish wireless communication by means of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), the wireless communication system comprising:
a communication device comprising:
a data unit linker configured to generate a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU);
a transceiver configured to connect to a data unit composer and configured to convert PPDU to OFDM symbols, an OFDM symbol encoded by a plurality of subcarriers, a plurality of subcarriers include twenty-four data subcarriers, two pilot subcarriers, five guard subcarriers and one DC subcarrier (DC), while the transceiver contains an interleaver, configured to interleave the data bits of the data stream generated for the one MHz (1 MHz) bandwidth in which the bits are located s table having eight columns and 3 rows * N _BPSCS where N _BPSCS denotes the number of coded bits per subcarrier; and
antenna array with the ability to connect to a transceiver. 14. The wireless communications system of claim 13, wherein the transceiver comprises:
modulator logic configured to modulate the plurality of subcarriers by a modulation format selected from a group containing binary phase shift keying (BPSK), 64-point quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) data mapping, 256-point QAM data mapping, quadrature phase shift keying ( QPSK). 15. The wireless communication system of claim 14, wherein the modulator logic is configured to modulate the plurality of subcarriers with a coding rate selected from the group consisting of coding rate 1/2, coding rate 3/4, coding rate 2/3, and 5/6 coding rates. 16. The wireless communication system of claim 13, wherein the transceiver comprises an inverse discrete Fourier transform logic configured to perform inverse discrete Fourier transform (IDFT) on a plurality of subcarriers. 17. The wireless communication system of claim 13, wherein
the transceiver is configured to transmit and receive an OFDM signal wirelessly over a 1 MHz channel. 18. The method of transmitting a communication signal provides communication over a wireless local area network (WLAN), the method comprising:
interleaving bits of a data stream generated for a one-MHz bandwidth in which the bits are arranged in a table having eight columns and 3 * N _BPSCS rows, where N _BPSCS indicates the number of encoded bits per subcarrier;
generating a communication signal by orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) including a plurality of subcarriers, wherein the plurality of subcarriers includes twenty-four data subcarriers, two pilot subcarriers, five guard subcarriers, and one DC subcarrier; and
OFDM transmission of a communication signal over a single MHz (1 MHz) channel. 19. The method according to p. 18, containing:
modulating said plurality of subcarriers by a modulation format selected from a group comprising binary phase shift keying (BPSK), 64-point quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) data mapping, 256-point QAM data mapping, quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK). 20. The method according to p. 18, containing:
modulating said plurality of subcarriers based on a coding rate selected from the group consisting of coding rate 1/2, coding rate 3/4, coding rate 2/3, and coding rate 5/6. 21. The method according to p. 18, containing:
performing an inverse discrete Fourier transform on a plurality of subcarriers to generate an OFDM communication signal.

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