WO2006073385A1 - A system and method of space-time equalization to mitigate effects of fading and scintillation for wireless communication - Google Patents

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WO2006073385A1
WO2006073385A1 PCT/US2004/044015 US2004044015W WO2006073385A1 WO 2006073385 A1 WO2006073385 A1 WO 2006073385A1 US 2004044015 W US2004044015 W US 2004044015W WO 2006073385 A1 WO2006073385 A1 WO 2006073385A1
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  • TITLE A SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SPACE-TIME EQUALIZATION TO MITIGATE EFFECTS OF FADING AND SCINTILLATION FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION
  • This invention relates to a system and method to improve data transmission performance of a radio frequency (RF) wireless and optical wireless digital communication link by reducing signal degradation due to fading and scintillating channel .
  • RF radio frequency
  • Another approach is to perform repeated transmission until an acknowledgement is received.
  • a detailed operation of this approach is disclosed and described in U. S . Patent No. 6, 043, 918.
  • This concept is similar to the reliable transport control protocol (TCP) at the network layer.
  • TCP transport control protocol
  • the challenge is to choose the right duration for the acknowledgement time-out without artificially inducing a data traffic bottleneck due to retransmission.
  • RF radio frequency
  • Still another object of the present invention to apply space-time sampling as compared to separate spatial or temporal sampling in receiver signal processing .
  • Still another object of the present invention to apply space-time equalization to single mode time modulated optical communication links for terrestrial wireless and satellite communications.
  • Still another object of the present invention to apply the space-time equalization to single beam time modulated RF PCT 1 ZlJSO"+--'4 1 ⁇ O.IB .58022002 R0/US //15 wireless communication links for terrestrial wireless and satellite communications .
  • Still another object of the present invention to apply space-time equalization to single mode space-time modulated optical communication links for terrestrial wireless and satellite communications .
  • Still another object of the present invention to apply space-time equalization to multimode space-time modulated optical communication links for terrestrial wireless and satellite communications .
  • Still another object of the present invention to apply space-time equalization to multimode multi-antenna space-time modulated optical communication links for terrestrial wireless and satellite communications . Still another object of the . present invention to apply space-time equalization to single beam. space-time modulated RF wireless communications link for terrestrial wireless and satellite communications .
  • Still another object of the present invention is to apply space-time equalization to multi-beam space-time modulated RF wireless communication links for terrestrial wireless and satellite communications .
  • Still another object of the present invention is to apply space-time equalization to multi-beam multi-antenna space-time modulated RF communication links for terrestrial wireless and PK T/ ⁇ soMv-'+ ⁇ s . se ⁇ eeoo ⁇ RO/US //15 satellite communications .
  • Still another object of the present invention is to maximize the throughput of a satellite transmission system by using space-time equalization.
  • the purpose of the present invention is to recover a wireless signal that has been spread in both space and time.
  • a wireless signal transverses through an atmospheric medium, the electromagnetic pulse is spread in both space and time .
  • the temporal technique ' of tapping delay line equalization is effective against the time spread dispersion. It only provides a partial solution to the problem.
  • the spatial dispersion resulting in beam spread, beam wander and multipath- remains ' uncompensated.
  • a properly designed spatial combiner that adheres to spatial sampling theorem is only effective against spatial dispersion;
  • a combined simultaneous equalization in space and time provides a complete solution to mitigate the effects of fading and scintillation.
  • the basis of the present invention disclosed herein is a PC 1 TVUSO 1 Mk/ 4M-DiS »i2e ⁇ Ei ⁇ OOB RO/US //15 direct application of the space-time system field theory to wireless RF and wireless optical communications .
  • the fundamental theory related to the present invention is described by Victor Io in "On A Statistical Space-Time Modulation Theory, " Proc . IEEE P .R. Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, pp. 584-589 , Victoria, B.C . , Canada, June 1989.
  • the space-time modulation provides capacity expansion by utilizing the three-dimensional spatial field in addition to the classical temporal domain.
  • the spatial modulation can be expressed in the form of changes in vector directions of the spatial carriers , Ex, Ey as well as the specific spatial location where the electric field is illuminated.
  • the relationship of the x,y components and the propagation direction z forms the basis functions for data transmission.
  • all data loading is limited in time along the propagation axis pointing at only one receiver location.
  • the temporal information carrier on the propagation axis becomes independent of the transverse plane where the relative phase position ( state of polarization) can be modulated..
  • Multiple spatial modes and feeds can also be generated from a single antenna aperture to transmit independently and concurrently to multitude of receiver locations .
  • the maximum data capacity may not be attainable .
  • a component of the space-time modulation theory known as the space-time sampling theorem can be used to construct the space-time channel model.
  • the space-time channel model enables optimal signal recovery and processing at the receiver. This general solution to combat scintillation effects is applicable to various signals including space-time modulated signal, temporally modulated spatially spread signal, spatially modulated temporally spread signal, and space-time modulated space-time spread signal.
  • each feed and each mode can be independently space-time modulated, and thus carry separate polarization modulated and temporal modulated messages .
  • the capacity is limited by the total number of independent RF feeds and optical modes supportable by the scintillation channel ..
  • the scintillation activities characterized by the correlation time and correlation distance will determine the space-time sampling parameters needed to perform optimal received signal recovery. Details of the signal processing are described by Victor Lo in the "Space-Time Optical Channel Model for Mobile FSO Networks" SPIE Proceedings, vol . 5160 , August 2003.
  • RF multi-feed design is described by Te-Kao Wu in "Meander-Line Polarizer for Arbitrary Rotation of Linear Polarization, " IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letter, vol . 4 , no . 6 , June 1994.
  • Optical multi-mode design is described by Gagliardi and Karp in "Optical Communications, " Wiley Interscience, New York, 1976. The same concept can be reduced to the simple case of single RF feed and single optical mode communication systems . It can also be extended to the complex case of RF multi-feed multi-antenna and optical multi-mode multi-antenna communication systems .
  • a single-feed single antenna link can be easily expanded to a multi-channel architecture using a multi- feed antenna with each feed . transmitting an independent spatial beam or channel.
  • a further extension is possible by deploying multiple antennas with each antenna carrying multiple, feeds.
  • the space-time equalizer recovers the spread signal power . It restores the system performance by maintaining the signal to noise power ratio . ' •
  • Another application is single mode free space optical communications with direct or indirect modulation.
  • the optical signal is amplified and transmitted through an optical antenna.
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  • BCOEi!ESO ⁇ S RO/US //15 With proper antenna pointing, the receiver optical antenna field of view and the transmit antenna beamwidth achieves a near line- of-sight geometry.
  • the optical space-time equalizer maximally recombines the received spread signal . This is followed by space-time demodulation and decoding.-
  • Yet another application of the invention is to extend the single mode space-time equalizer to a multi-mode single antenna space-time equalizer.
  • Another application of the invention is to extend the multi-mode single antenna space-time equalizer to a multi-mode multi-antenna space-time equalizer .
  • Yet another application of the invention is to equalize satellite signal transmission in single beam, single mode, multi-beam, multi-mode • and. multi-antenna systems at both the RF and optical bands .
  • Figure IA shows a block diagram illustrating the prior art method of temporal equalization of scintillation and fading effects using a tapped delay line for a single feed or a single mode antenna system at the baseband.
  • Figure IB is a block diagram illustrating the prior art P'C- ⁇ ,''UBOH,- '8 4. » ⁇ O.:l ⁇ :i; - r?SOC ⁇ QOS RO/US //15 method of temporal equalization of scintillation and fading effects using a tapped delay line for a single feed antenna system at the RF band.
  • Figure 1C is a block diagram illustrating the prior art method of temporal equalization of scintillation and fading effects using a tapped delay line for a single mode antenna system at the optical band.
  • Figure 2 is a schematic block diagram illustrating the prior art method of the internal processing of a tapped delay line temporal equalizer.
  • Figure 3A is a schematic block diagram illustrating one embodiment of a space-time equalizer of scintillation and fading effects for a single feed or single mode antenna system at the baseband according to the invention.
  • Figure 3B is a schematic block diagram illustrating another embodiment of a space-time equalizer of scintillation and fading .effects for a single feed antenna system at the RF band.
  • Figure 3C is a schematic block diagram illustrating another embodiment of a space-time equalizer of scintillation and fading effects for a single mode antenna system at the optical band.
  • Figure 4A is a schematic block diagram illustrating another embodiment of a space-time . equalizer of scintillation and fading effects for a multi-feed or a multi-mode antenna system at the baseband.
  • Figure 4B is a schematic block diagram illustrating another ⁇ >CT./"OSOH-/H 1 HHDI1S - *2SO ⁇ P.OOEi RO/US //15 ' embodiment of a space-time equalizer of scintillation and fading effects for a multi-feed antenna system at the RF band.
  • Figure 4C is a schematic block diagram illustrating another embodiment of a space-time equalizer of scintillation and fading effects for a multi-mode antenna system at the optical band.
  • Figure 5A is a schematic block diagram illustrating another embodiment of a space-time equalizer of scintillation and fading effects for a multi-feed or a multi-mode multi-antenna system at the baseband.
  • Figure 5B is a schematic block diagram illustrating another embodiment of a space-time equalizer of scintillation and fading effects for a multi-feed multi-antenna system at the RF band.
  • Figure 5C is a - schematic block diagram illustrating another embodiment of a space-time equalizer of scintillation and fading effects for a multi-mode multi-antenna system at the optical band.
  • Figure 6 is a schematic block diagram of a scintillation channel estimator to provide an estimation of channel power spectrum and its match filter.
  • a signal from a RF wireless, free-space optical and- satellite communication • link through a scintillation channel are degraded due to spatial and temporal dispersion.
  • the classical temporal technique of tap delay line equalization is only effective in, » c- ⁇ v uso **/ n-H'O .1 s » a ⁇ o ⁇ 2isos RO/US //15 against time dispersion.
  • the signal power is reassembled by space-time sampling within the four dimensional volume of the spatial and temporal spread.
  • the space-time equalizer can recover the lost signal power induced by the effects of an atmospheric scintillating medium. Wireless link outages can now be minimized.
  • This invention enhances the quality of services (QOS ) of a wireless data network by maintaining data throughput and link availability.
  • the prior art implementation of a temporal equalizer 10 using a tapped delay line for a single feed or a single mode antenna system at the baseband is shown in Figure IA.
  • the demodulated signal is sequentially passed through a line of delay elements at the baseband frequency, 60 in Figure 2.
  • the conjugate of the temporal impulse response function of the channel match filter is : h i *(t) , • , where: i is the time delay index from 1 to K, arid t is the reference ' time at the receiver .
  • These delay elements can be implemented digitally with shift registers .
  • the signal is tapped and scaled, 5O 1 to 50 K , according to the temporal channel match filter, h(t) . They are summed together, 40 as a combination of a temporally spread signal components .
  • temporal equalizer 20 ( Figure IB) can also be done in the RF domain at the front- P-CT,- USQH./W Q :ll5 -5BOS£ » OO£» RO/US //15 end of the receiver prior to demodulation.
  • delay elements 62 j to 62 K are constructed using radio frequency phase shifters for delays and RF couplers for tapped output.
  • RF multipliers 5O 1 -SO x and summer 40 are used next for the multiplication and summation operations before amplification.
  • temporal equalizer 30 can be done in the optical frequency domain at thereceiver front-end.
  • delay elements, 62 X to 62 K are constructed using lens and optical splitters for delays and tapped output.
  • Optical multipliers 50 x -50 K and summer 40 are used next for signal multiplication and summation operations before optical demodulation.
  • FIG. 3A One embodiment of the invention of a baseband space-time equalizer for a wireless communication link with a single feed or a single mode antenna is illustrated in Figure 3A.
  • Equation 1 i is the time delay index from 1 to K, t is the reference time at the receiver, r is the reference spatial position of the receiver; and h*[r+( i x ,i y ) ;t] is a conjugate vector of the impulse response function at location r+(i x ,i y ) , where: i x #i y are spatial delays in reference to r, they range from unit sampling distance up to the full , K t ⁇ o s: E?
  • Each tapped delay line 10 receiving an input from one spatial sampling point augmenting the signal power collection from the original feed antenna.
  • the outputs of baseband tapped delay lines 10 are summed together 40 before decoding.
  • the separation between adjacent points is determined by the sampling distance up to the maximum width set by the baseband signal correlation distance.
  • Space-time match filter 76 is provided by channel estimator 70 ( Figure 6 ) .
  • Channel estimator 70 estimates space- time power spectrum 72 of the channel and derives a space-time match filter 76 to equalize, its effects . ' ⁇
  • FIG. 3B Another embodiment of the invention of space-time equalizer in the RF frequency domain for a wireless communication link with a single feed antenna is illustrated in Figure 3B. It consists of a plurality of RF tapped delay lines 20. Each tapped delay line 20 receives input from one spatial, sampling point. They are summed together 40 before RF amplification and demodulation . The separation between adjacent points is determined by the sampling distance up to the maximum width set by the RF signal correlation distance .
  • the space-time match • p c T / u s oi H- / « I- Mi o .1 s ,, H e o ⁇ e o o 5 RO/U S //15 filter is provided by channel estimator 70 ( Figure 6 ) .
  • Channel estimator 70 estimates the space-time power spectrum 12 oi the channel and derives a space-time match filter 76 to equalize its effects .
  • FIG 3C Yet another embodiment of the invention of space-time equalizer in the optical frequency domain for a wireless communication link with a single mode antenna is illustrated in Figure 3C. It consists of a plurality of optical tapped delay lines 30. Each tapped delay line 30 receives input from one spatial sampling point . They are summed together 40 before optical demodulation . The separation between adjacent points is determined by the sampling distance up to the maximum width set by the optical signal correlation distance .
  • the space-time match filter is provided by the channel estimator 70 ( Figure 6 ) .
  • Channel estimator ' 70 estimates space-time power spectrum 72 of the channel and derives space-time match filter 76 to equalize its effects .
  • FIG. 4A Another embodiment of the invention of baseband space-time equalizer for a wireless communication link with a multi-feed or multi-mode antenna is illustrated in Figure 4A,- It consists of a plurality of baseband tapped delay lines 10 for a plurality of .feeds or modes . They are individually summed 4O 1 to 40 H together before decoding. The separation between adjacent points of any one . feed or mode is determined by the sampling distance up to the maximum width set by the baseband signal PC ⁇ /us ⁇ H/ ⁇ * Q ;t.5 p esoeaoos RO/US //15 correlation distance .
  • Space-time match filter 76 is provided by channel estimators 7O 1 to 70 M .
  • FIG. 4B Another embodiment of the invention of space-time equalizer in the RF frequency domain for ,a wireless communication link with a multi-feed antenna is illustrated in Figure 4B. It consists of a plurality of RF tapped delay lines 20 for a plurality of feeds . They are individually summed together 4O 1 to 40 H before RF amplification and demodulation. Space-time match filter 76 is provided by the channel estimators 7O 1 to 70 M .
  • Figure 4C Another embodiment of the invention of space-time equalizer in the optical frequency domain for a wireless communication link with a multi-mode antenna is illustrated in Figure 4C . It consists of a plurality of optical tapped delay lines 30 for a plurality of feeds. They are individually summed together 4O 1 to 40 M before optical demodulation. Space-time match filter 76 is provided by the channel estimator, 7O 1 to 70 M .
  • FIG. 5A Another embodiment of the invention of baseband space-time equalizer for a wireless communication link with a multi-feed or multi-mode multi-antenna system is illustrated in Figure 5A. It consists of a plurality of baseband tapped delay lines 10 for a plurality of feeds or modes and a plurality of antennas . They are individually summed 4O 1 to 4O 10 , together before decoding. The separation between adjacent points of any one feed or mode of any one antenna is determined by the sampling distance up to ' PCT/USO 3 4..• •••' H-H-UJL « 3 , .. ⁇ ?.8OKHQoG RO/US //15 the maximum width set by the baseband correlation distance .
  • Space-time match filter 76 is provided by channel estimators 7O 1 to 70 r ⁇ .
  • FIG. 5B Another embodiment of the invention of space-time equalizer in the. RF frequency domain for a wireless communication link with a multi-feed multi-antenna system is illustrated in Figure 5B . It consists. of a plurality of RF tapped delay lines 20 for a plurality of feeds and a plurality of antennas . They are individually summed together 4O 1 to 40 m before RF amplification and demodulation. Space-time match filter 76 is provided by the channel estimators ' 7O 1 to 70 ⁇ 1 .
  • FIG. 5C Another embodiment of the invention of space-time equalizer in the optical frequency domain for a wireless" communication link with a multi-mode multi-antenna system is illustrated in Figure 5C. It consists of a plurality of optical tapped delay lines 20 for a plurality of modes and a plurality of antennas . They are individually summed together 4O 1 to 4O j0 , before optical demo.dulation. Space-time match filter is provided by the channel estimators, 7O 1 to T0 m .
  • This invention is not to be limited by the embodiment shown in the drawings and described in the description which is given by way of example and not of limitation, but only in accordance with the scope of the appended claims .

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A system and method is disclosed for mitigating the scintillation and fading effects of baseband wireless, radio frequency wireless, optical wireless and satellite communication links. The system uses a space-time channel model to derive an optimal processing architecture for signal recovery through a scintillation channel. The signal power is collected by space­time sampling within the four dimensional volume of the spatial and temporal spread. Consequently, the space-time equalizer can effectively recover the lost signal power induced by the spreading effects of atmospheric scintillating medium. The advantages of this invention include a decrease in link outages resulting in higher link availability and more reliable data network services.

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TITLE ; A SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SPACE-TIME EQUALIZATION TO MITIGATE EFFECTS OF FADING AND SCINTILLATION FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION
This application is a Continuation-In-Part of Application Serial No. 10/325 , 370 , filed December 20 , 2002. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a system and method to improve data transmission performance of a radio frequency (RF) wireless and optical wireless digital communication link by reducing signal degradation due to fading and scintillating channel .
2. Background Information
With the growth of worldwide telecom infrastructure, broadband wireless connectivity via radio and optical frequencies has been considered to be the future of the global telecommunication industry. The communication efficiency associated with transmitting information is known to be dependent upon the signal design, error correction code as well as the characteristics of the transmission medium. While there are advancements in high-speed digital processing in the time domain to remove signal degradations at the receiver, there has been little progress to utilize the additional dimensions in the spatial domain to support data recovery operations . P C TV ' U SO tfrv-'»4-«+O JL S . Ξ O O R E1! O Q g RO/US //15
One approach to mitigate the effects of scintillation is error correction code as shown in U.S . Patent Application Publication No. 20020157060. For example, Reed-Solomon code in conjunction with data interleaver is effective in combating error bursts . The cost is the overhead associated with sending the parity bytes needed for the decoder, latency of decoding operation as well as complexity to implement the codec and inter'leaving/deinterleaving circuits .
Another approach is to perform repeated transmission until an acknowledgement is received. A detailed operation of this approach is disclosed and described in U. S . Patent No. 6, 043, 918. This concept is similar to the reliable transport control protocol (TCP) at the network layer. The challenge is to choose the right duration for the acknowledgement time-out without artificially inducing a data traffic bottleneck due to retransmission.
One other solution is to provide signal strength feedback to the transmitter (described in U. S . Patent No, 6 , 285 , 481 ) . Data transmissions can be suspended until scintillation activities subside allowing signal power to return back to the nominal level. However, link suspension reduces network availability and decreases subscriber satisfaction.
Also, a receiving system with multiple optical detectors is described and proposed in U.S . Patent No. 6 , 243 , 182. The patent shows a spatial combiner scheme to capture optical power lost iPCT..-'II5Sp»4.,'-H.a|-α.j..5 , HQOeEQOEi R0/US //15 due to scintillation. However, it does not reveal the critical design in calculating the spacing between detectors and the size of the array needed to accomplish the job of a spatial scintillation equalizer. Furthermore, no temporal equalization is suggested as part of an overall solution to the problem of scintillation.
It is one object of the present invention to provide a system and method to mitigate the effects of fading and scintillation on a radio frequency (RF) and optical wireless signals .
It is another object of the present invention to provide an optimal signal equalization scheme simultaneously in both the spatial and temporal domains .
Yet it is another object of the present invention to perform an optimal recovery of lost transmission power of the wireless signal at the receiver.
Still another object of the present invention to apply space-time sampling as compared to separate spatial or temporal sampling in receiver signal processing . Still another object of the present invention to apply space-time equalization to single mode time modulated optical communication links for terrestrial wireless and satellite communications.
Still another object of the present invention to apply the space-time equalization to single beam time modulated RF PCT1ZlJSO"+--'41^O.IB .58022002 R0/US //15 wireless communication links for terrestrial wireless and satellite communications .
Still another object of the present invention to apply space-time equalization to single mode space-time modulated optical communication links for terrestrial wireless and satellite communications .
Still another object of the present invention to apply space-time equalization to multimode space-time modulated optical communication links for terrestrial wireless and satellite communications .
Still another object of the present invention to apply space-time equalization to multimode multi-antenna space-time modulated optical communication links for terrestrial wireless and satellite communications . Still another object of the . present invention to apply space-time equalization to single beam. space-time modulated RF wireless communications link for terrestrial wireless and satellite communications .
Still another object of the present invention is to apply space-time equalization to multi-beam space-time modulated RF wireless communication links for terrestrial wireless and satellite communications .
Still another object of the present invention is to apply space-time equalization to multi-beam multi-antenna space-time modulated RF communication links for terrestrial wireless and PK T/υsoMv-'+^ϋ±s . seαeeooΞ RO/US //15 satellite communications .
Still another object of the present invention is to maximize the throughput of a wireless radio frequency transmission system by using space-time equalization. Still another object of the present invention is to maximize the throughput of a wireless optical transmission system by using space-time equalization.
Still another object of the present invention is to maximize the throughput of a satellite transmission system by using space-time equalization.
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The purpose of the present invention is to recover a wireless signal that has been spread in both space and time. As a wireless signal transverses through an atmospheric medium, the electromagnetic pulse is spread in both space and time . The temporal technique' of tapping delay line equalization is effective against the time spread dispersion. It only provides a partial solution to the problem. The spatial dispersion resulting in beam spread, beam wander and multipath- remains ' uncompensated. Conversely, a properly designed spatial combiner that adheres to spatial sampling theorem is only effective against spatial dispersion; To that end, a combined simultaneous equalization in space and time provides a complete solution to mitigate the effects of fading and scintillation. The basis of the present invention disclosed herein is a PC1TVUSO1Mk/ 4M-DiS »i2eθEiώOOB RO/US //15 direct application of the space-time system field theory to wireless RF and wireless optical communications . The fundamental theory related to the present invention is described by Victor Io in "On A Statistical Space-Time Modulation Theory, " Proc . IEEE P .R. Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, pp. 584-589 , Victoria, B.C . , Canada, June 1989. The space-time modulation provides capacity expansion by utilizing the three-dimensional spatial field in addition to the classical temporal domain. The spatial modulation can be expressed in the form of changes in vector directions of the spatial carriers , Ex, Ey as well as the specific spatial location where the electric field is illuminated. The relationship of the x,y components and the propagation direction z forms the basis functions for data transmission. When the spatial dimension is not being used as in the case of a linearly polarized signal, all data loading is limited in time along the propagation axis pointing at only one receiver location. Assuming a space-time separable channel, the temporal information carrier on the propagation axis becomes independent of the transverse plane where the relative phase position ( state of polarization) can be modulated.. Multiple spatial modes and feeds can also be generated from a single antenna aperture to transmit independently and concurrently to multitude of receiver locations . By utilizing both spatial and temporal modulation, total system throughput can be substantially increased. p' c τv u s α 4- ..■•■ ifn-o ;i.. s -.. s Q o 2 e o os RO/US //15
However, due to scintillation and fading effects of the propagation channel, the maximum data capacity may not be attainable . To mitigate the channel degradation, a component of the space-time modulation theory known as the space-time sampling theorem can be used to construct the space-time channel model. The space-time channel model enables optimal signal recovery and processing at the receiver. This general solution to combat scintillation effects is applicable to various signals including space-time modulated signal, temporally modulated spatially spread signal, spatially modulated temporally spread signal, and space-time modulated space-time spread signal. For an RF multi-feed and an optical multi-mode single antenna communication system for both terrestrial and satellite communications , each feed and each mode can be independently space-time modulated, and thus carry separate polarization modulated and temporal modulated messages . The capacity is limited by the total number of independent RF feeds and optical modes supportable by the scintillation channel .. The scintillation activities characterized by the correlation time and correlation distance will determine the space-time sampling parameters needed to perform optimal received signal recovery. Details of the signal processing are described by Victor Lo in the "Space-Time Optical Channel Model for Mobile FSO Networks" SPIE Proceedings, vol . 5160 , August 2003. The complexity of the receiver will increase quickly because each RF feed and each PCT/USO^/H-M-O-tS . e8O-?.2OOS RO/US //15 optical mode will have to be independently detected and demodulated. RF multi-feed design is described by Te-Kao Wu in "Meander-Line Polarizer for Arbitrary Rotation of Linear Polarization, " IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letter, vol . 4 , no . 6 , June 1994. Optical multi-mode design is described by Gagliardi and Karp in "Optical Communications, " Wiley Interscience, New York, 1976. The same concept can be reduced to the simple case of single RF feed and single optical mode communication systems . It can also be extended to the complex case of RF multi-feed multi-antenna and optical multi-mode multi-antenna communication systems .
One application of this space-time equalizer disclosed herein is for commercial fixed and mobile RF wireless services, where atmospheric scintillation and fading can degrade the system performance . A single-feed single antenna link can be easily expanded to a multi-channel architecture using a multi- feed antenna with each feed . transmitting an independent spatial beam or channel. A further extension is possible by deploying multiple antennas with each antenna carrying multiple, feeds. The space-time equalizer recovers the spread signal power . It restores the system performance by maintaining the signal to noise power ratio . '
Another application is single mode free space optical communications with direct or indirect modulation. The optical signal is amplified and transmitted through an optical antenna. P1CT ...-USOH-/4-4-ClJLS . BCOEi!ESOϋS RO/US //15 With proper antenna pointing, the receiver optical antenna field of view and the transmit antenna beamwidth achieves a near line- of-sight geometry. At the receiver, the optical space-time equalizer maximally recombines the received spread signal . This is followed by space-time demodulation and decoding.-
Yet another application of the invention is to extend the single mode space-time equalizer to a multi-mode single antenna space-time equalizer.
Another application of the invention is to extend the multi-mode single antenna space-time equalizer to a multi-mode multi-antenna space-time equalizer .
Yet another application of the invention is to equalize satellite signal transmission in single beam, single mode, multi-beam, multi-mode and. multi-antenna systems at both the RF and optical bands .
The above and other objects , advantages , and novel features of the invention will be more fully understood from the following detailed description and the accompanying drawings , in which: BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Figure IA shows a block diagram illustrating the prior art method of temporal equalization of scintillation and fading effects using a tapped delay line for a single feed or a single mode antenna system at the baseband. Figure IB is a block diagram illustrating the prior art P'C-ϊ,''UBOH,-'84.»ΨO.:lϊ:i; - r?SOCβQOS RO/US //15 method of temporal equalization of scintillation and fading effects using a tapped delay line for a single feed antenna system at the RF band.
Figure 1C is a block diagram illustrating the prior art method of temporal equalization of scintillation and fading effects using a tapped delay line for a single mode antenna system at the optical band.
Figure 2 is a schematic block diagram illustrating the prior art method of the internal processing of a tapped delay line temporal equalizer.
Figure 3A is a schematic block diagram illustrating one embodiment of a space-time equalizer of scintillation and fading effects for a single feed or single mode antenna system at the baseband according to the invention. Figure 3B is a schematic block diagram illustrating another embodiment of a space-time equalizer of scintillation and fading .effects for a single feed antenna system at the RF band.
Figure 3C is a schematic block diagram illustrating another embodiment of a space-time equalizer of scintillation and fading effects for a single mode antenna system at the optical band.
Figure 4A is a schematic block diagram illustrating another embodiment of a space-time . equalizer of scintillation and fading effects for a multi-feed or a multi-mode antenna system at the baseband. Figure 4B is a schematic block diagram illustrating another ϊ>CT./"OSOH-/H1HHDI1S - *2SOΞP.OOEi RO/US //15 ' embodiment of a space-time equalizer of scintillation and fading effects for a multi-feed antenna system at the RF band.
Figure 4C is a schematic block diagram illustrating another embodiment of a space-time equalizer of scintillation and fading effects for a multi-mode antenna system at the optical band.
Figure 5A is a schematic block diagram illustrating another embodiment of a space-time equalizer of scintillation and fading effects for a multi-feed or a multi-mode multi-antenna system at the baseband. Figure 5B is a schematic block diagram illustrating another embodiment of a space-time equalizer of scintillation and fading effects for a multi-feed multi-antenna system at the RF band.
Figure 5C is a - schematic block diagram illustrating another embodiment of a space-time equalizer of scintillation and fading effects for a multi-mode multi-antenna system at the optical band.
Figure 6 is a schematic block diagram of a scintillation channel estimator to provide an estimation of channel power spectrum and its match filter. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
In accordance with the invention disclosed herein, a signal from a RF wireless, free-space optical and- satellite communication • link through a scintillation channel are degraded due to spatial and temporal dispersion. The classical temporal technique of tap delay line equalization is only effective in, » c- τv uso **/ n-H'O .1 s » a β o ≡ 2isos RO/US //15 against time dispersion. With this invention, the signal power is reassembled by space-time sampling within the four dimensional volume of the spatial and temporal spread. As a result, the space-time equalizer can recover the lost signal power induced by the effects of an atmospheric scintillating medium. Wireless link outages can now be minimized. This invention enhances the quality of services (QOS ) of a wireless data network by maintaining data throughput and link availability. The prior art implementation of a temporal equalizer 10 , using a tapped delay line for a single feed or a single mode antenna system at the baseband is shown in Figure IA. The demodulated signal is sequentially passed through a line of delay elements at the baseband frequency, 60 in Figure 2. The conjugate of the temporal impulse response function of the channel match filter is : hi*(t) , • , where: i is the time delay index from 1 to K, arid t is the reference ' time at the receiver . These delay elements can be implemented digitally with shift registers . At each element, 62j to 62K, the signal is tapped and scaled, 5O1 to 50K, according to the temporal channel match filter, h(t) . They are summed together, 40 as a combination of a temporally spread signal components .
Beside baseband, the implementation of temporal equalizer 20 (Figure IB) can also be done in the RF domain at the front- P-CT,- USQH./WQ:ll5 -5BOS£»OO£» RO/US //15 end of the receiver prior to demodulation. In this case, delay elements 62j to 62K are constructed using radio frequency phase shifters for delays and RF couplers for tapped output. RF multipliers 5O1-SOx and summer 40 are used next for the multiplication and summation operations before amplification.
Similarly, the implementation of temporal equalizer 30 (Figure 1C) can be done in the optical frequency domain at thereceiver front-end. In .this case, delay elements, 62X to 62K are constructed using lens and optical splitters for delays and tapped output. Optical multipliers 50x-50K and summer 40 are used next for signal multiplication and summation operations before optical demodulation.
One embodiment of the invention of a baseband space-time equalizer for a wireless communication link with a single feed or a single mode antenna is illustrated in Figure 3A. The conjugate vector of space-time impulse response function of the channel match filter at reference location r is: h* (r;t) = [h*(r;t) .... hi* (r;t) ... hκ* (r;t) ] (Equation 1 ) where: i is the time delay index from 1 to K, t is the reference time at the receiver, r is the reference spatial position of the receiver; and h*[r+( ix,iy) ;t] is a conjugate vector of the impulse response function at location r+(ix,iy) , where: ix#iy are spatial delays in reference to r, they range from unit sampling distance up to the full
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, K tø o s: E? O O S RO/US //15 correlation distance, and h* [r+(Lχ /Ly) ; t] is the conjugate vector of the impulse response function at locations r+(Lχ/Ly, where: Lx, Ly are the correlation distances in x,y directions of the receiver .
It consists of a plurality of baseband tapped delay lines 10. Each tapped delay line 10 receiving an input from one spatial sampling point augmenting the signal power collection from the original feed antenna. The outputs of baseband tapped delay lines 10 are summed together 40 before decoding. The separation between adjacent points is determined by the sampling distance up to the maximum width set by the baseband signal correlation distance. Space-time match filter 76 is provided by channel estimator 70 (Figure 6 ) . Channel estimator 70 estimates space- time power spectrum 72 of the channel and derives a space-time match filter 76 to equalize, its effects . ' ■
Another embodiment of the invention of space-time equalizer in the RF frequency domain for a wireless communication link with a single feed antenna is illustrated in Figure 3B. It consists of a plurality of RF tapped delay lines 20. Each tapped delay line 20 receives input from one spatial, sampling point. They are summed together 40 before RF amplification and demodulation . The separation between adjacent points is determined by the sampling distance up to the maximum width set by the RF signal correlation distance . The space-time match p c T / u s oi H- / « I- Mi o .1 s ,, H e o ≡ e o o 5 RO/U S //15 filter is provided by channel estimator 70 (Figure 6 ) . Channel estimator 70 estimates the space-time power spectrum 12 oi the channel and derives a space-time match filter 76 to equalize its effects . Yet another embodiment of the invention of space-time equalizer in the optical frequency domain for a wireless communication link with a single mode antenna is illustrated in Figure 3C. It consists of a plurality of optical tapped delay lines 30. Each tapped delay line 30 receives input from one spatial sampling point . They are summed together 40 before optical demodulation . The separation between adjacent points is determined by the sampling distance up to the maximum width set by the optical signal correlation distance . The space-time match filter is provided by the channel estimator 70 ( Figure 6 ) . Channel estimator ' 70 estimates space-time power spectrum 72 of the channel and derives space-time match filter 76 to equalize its effects .
Another embodiment of the invention of baseband space-time equalizer for a wireless communication link with a multi-feed or multi-mode antenna is illustrated in Figure 4A,- It consists of a plurality of baseband tapped delay lines 10 for a plurality of .feeds or modes . They are individually summed 4O1 to 40H together before decoding. The separation between adjacent points of any one . feed or mode is determined by the sampling distance up to the maximum width set by the baseband signal PCτ/usαH/ιμ*Q;t.5 p esoeaoos RO/US //15 correlation distance . Space-time match filter 76 is provided by channel estimators 7O1 to 70M.
Another embodiment of the invention of space-time equalizer in the RF frequency domain for ,a wireless communication link with a multi-feed antenna is illustrated in Figure 4B. It consists of a plurality of RF tapped delay lines 20 for a plurality of feeds . They are individually summed together 4O1 to 40H before RF amplification and demodulation. Space-time match filter 76 is provided by the channel estimators 7O1 to 70M. Another embodiment of the invention of space-time equalizer in the optical frequency domain for a wireless communication link with a multi-mode antenna is illustrated in Figure 4C . It consists of a plurality of optical tapped delay lines 30 for a plurality of feeds. They are individually summed together 4O1 to 40M before optical demodulation. Space-time match filter 76 is provided by the channel estimator, 7O1 to 70M.
Another embodiment of the invention of baseband space-time equalizer for a wireless communication link with a multi-feed or multi-mode multi-antenna system is illustrated in Figure 5A. It consists of a plurality of baseband tapped delay lines 10 for a plurality of feeds or modes and a plurality of antennas . They are individually summed 4O1 to 4O10, together before decoding. The separation between adjacent points of any one feed or mode of any one antenna is determined by the sampling distance up to ' PCT/USO34..••••'H-H-UJL«3 ,.. ϋ?.8OKHQoG RO/US //15 the maximum width set by the baseband correlation distance .
Space-time match filter 76 is provided by channel estimators 7O1 to 70 .
Another embodiment of the invention of space-time equalizer in the. RF frequency domain for a wireless communication link with a multi-feed multi-antenna system is illustrated in Figure 5B . It consists. of a plurality of RF tapped delay lines 20 for a plurality of feeds and a plurality of antennas . They are individually summed together 4O1 to 40m before RF amplification and demodulation. Space-time match filter 76 is provided by the channel estimators '7O1 to 70^1.
Another embodiment of the invention of space-time equalizer in the optical frequency domain for a wireless" communication link with a multi-mode multi-antenna system is illustrated in Figure 5C. It consists of a plurality of optical tapped delay lines 20 for a plurality of modes and a plurality of antennas . They are individually summed together 4O1 to 4Oj0, before optical demo.dulation. Space-time match filter is provided by the channel estimators, 7O1 to T0m. This invention is not to be limited by the embodiment shown in the drawings and described in the description which is given by way of example and not of limitation, but only in accordance with the scope of the appended claims .

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P C 1", •' U SO "■■«■ / ""IM-II-O JL S« , «>? 8 O K iB O O ≡ RO/US //15WHAT IS CLAIMED IS :
1. A system for mitigating the effects of scintillation on a wireless link comprising; a channel estimator generating a channel match filter output; at least one summer; a plurality of tapped delay lines connecting each spatial sampling point around an original wireless link feed, receiving said channel match filter output from said channel estimator to perform space-time equalization by recombining the space-time spread signal by said summer.
2. The system according to Claim 1 in which said wireless , link is an RF wireless link having at least one feed; said plurality of tapped delay lines are a plurality of baseband tapped delay lines .
3. The system according to Claim 2 in which said RF wireless link having at least one feed is an RF wireless link having multiple feeds .
4. The system according to Claim 3 in which said RF wireless link having multiple feeds is an RF wireless link having multiple feeds and multiple antennas . jp c τ/ y B J0Rj1-1. •• 841401 JL »5 ,„ e e 01 E E o Q B RO/US //15
5. The system according to Claim 1 in which said wireless link is an optical wireless link having at least one mode; said plurality of tapped delay lines are a plurality of baseband tapped delay lines .
6. The system according to Claim 5 in which optical wireless link having at least one mode is an optical wireless link having multiple modes .
7. The system according to Claim 6 in which optical wireless link having multiple modes is an optical wireless link having multiple modes and multiple antennas .
8. The system according to Claim 1 in which said wireless link comprises an RF wireless link having at least one feed; said plurality of tapped delay lines are a plurality of RF tapped delay lines .
9. The system according to Claim 8 in which said RF wireless link is an RF wireless link having multiple feeds .
10. The system according to Claim 9 in which said RF wireless link having multiple feeds is an RF antenna system with multiple feeds and multiple antennas . l>c τ ., yS O4../s.i..H.«J :lLS .- SβOKBOOS RO/US //15
11. The system according to Claim 1 in which said wireless link is an optical wireless link having at least one mode; said plurality of tapped delay lines are a plurality of optical tapped delay lines .
12. A system according to Claim 11 in which optical wireless link having at least one mode is an optical wireless link having multiple modes .
13. A system according to Claim 12 in which optical wireless link having multiple modes is an optical wireless link having multiple modes and multiple antennas .
14. A system according to Claim 3 in which said at least one summer is a plurality of summers for summing the outputs of said multiple feeds.
15. A system according to Claim 4 in which said at least one summer is a plurality of summers for summing the outputs of said multiple feeds and multiple antennas .
16. The system according to Claim 6 in which said at least one summer is a plurality of summers for summing the outputs of said multiple modes .
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17. A system according to Claim 7 in which said at least one summer is a plurality of summers for summing the outputs of said multiple modes and multiple antennas .
18. The system according to Claim 9 in which said at least one summer is a plurality of summers for summing the outputs of said multiple feeds .
19. A system according to Claim 10 in which said at least one summer is a plurality of summers for summing the outputs of said multiple feeds and multiple antennas .
20. The system according to Claim 12 in which said at least one summer is a plurality of summers for summing the outputs of said multiple modes .
21. The system according to Claim 13 in which said at least one summer is a plurality of summers for summing the outputs of said multiple modes and multiple antennas .
22. The system according to Claim 3 in which said channel estimator comprises a power spectrum computer for computing the space-time channel power spectrum. PCT.-'USQ*/n-H-OXS n E1!SOKE:OOS RO/US //15
23. The system according to Claim 4 in which said channel estimator comprises a power spectrum computer for computing the space-time channel power spectrum.
24. The system according to Claim 6 in which said channel estimator comprises a power spectrum computer for computing the space-time channel power spectrum.
25. The system according to Claim 7 in which said channel estimator comprises a power spectrum computer for computing the space-time channel power spectrum.
26. The system according to Claim 9 in which said channel estimator comprises a power spectrum computer for computing the space-time channel power spectrum.
27. The system according to Claim 10 in which said channel estimator comprises a power spectrum computer for computing the space-time channel power spectrum.
28. The system according to Claim 12 in which said channel estimator comprises a power spectrum computer for computing the space-time channel power spectrum. B>CT .••■USO4 /WOJ K -5BOEKOOEi RO/US //15
29. The system according to Claim 13 in which said channel estimator comprises a power spectrum computer for computing the space-time channel power spectrum.
30. A method of mitigating the effects of scintillation on a wireless link comprising; processing channel measurement data to generate an estimate of the space-time channel power-spectrum; processing of a space-time channel power-spectrum to derive a space-time channel match filter output; processing a wireless link having at least one feed with a plurality of tapped delay lines and said channel match filter output to produce a space-time spread signal; summing said space-time spread signal output of said plurality of tapped delay lines to perform a space-time equalization.
31. The method according to Claim 30 in which said wireless link having at least one feed being processed with a plurality of baseband tapped delay lines is an RF wireless link with baseband equalization.
32. The method according to Claim 31 in which said RF wireless link having multiple feeds being processed with a plurality of baseband tapped delay lines is a multi-feed RF wireless link with baseband equalization. P C IVlJ B O Mk/ 1MWOJ, S . S SO Si:* O O 5 RO/US //15
33. The method according to Claim 32 in which said RF wireless link having multiple feeds , multiple antennas being processed with a plurality of baseband tapped delay lines is a multi-feed, multi-antenna RF wireless link with baseband equalization.
34. The method according to Claim 30 in which said wireless link having at .least one mode being processed with a plurality of baseband tapped delay lines is an optical wireless link with baseband equalization.
35. The method according to Claim 34 in which said optical wireless link having multiple modes being processed with a plurality of baseband tapped delay lines is a multi-mode optical wireless link with baseband equalization .
36. The method according to Claim 35 in which said optical wireless link having multiple modes and multiple antennas with a plurality of baseband tapped delay lines is a multi-mode, muiti- antenna optical wireless link with baseband equalization.
37. The method according to Claim 30 in which said wireless link having at least one feed being processed with a plurality of RF tapped delay lines is an RF wireless link with RF equalization. i"> c T. •■' u s CJ H- ■■■•' 11WO .t 1S. m 5 a o £» e o o »s RO/US //15
38. The method according to Claim 37 in which said RF wireless link having multiple feeds being processed with a plurality of RF tapped delay lines is a multi-feed RF wireless link with RF equalization.
39. The method according to Claim 38 in which said RF wireless link having multiple feeds , multiple antennas being processed with a plurality of RF tapped delay lines is a multi- feed, multi-antenna RF wireless link with RF equalization .
40. The method according to Claim 30 in which said wireless, link having a lest one mode being processed with a plurality of optical tapped delay lines is an optical wireless link with optical equalization.
41. The method according to Claim 40 in which said optical wireless link having multiple modes being processed 'with a plurality • of optical tapped delay lines is a multimode optical wireless link with optical equalization. .
42. The method according to Claim 41 in which said optical wireless link having multiple modes , multiple antennas being processed with a plurality of optical tapped delay lines is a multi-mode, multi-antenna optical wireless link with optical equalization.
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