Abstract: A method for the treatment of wood or wood products, in which method moist wood or wood products (1) are dried by first pressing and further by heating so that a desired degree of dryness is reached. In a first stage, the wood or wood products (1) arranged between treating elements (2) are pressed between the treating elements (2) so that a considerable amount of water is removed from the wood being treated, next the treating elements (2) are locked so that the wood or wood products (1) remain compressed between the treating elements (2), and the combination of treating elements (2) and wood or wood products (1) between them thus formed is moved into a drying chamber (D), where the wood or wood products are dried further by applying heat. The invention also relates to an apparatus.

Abstract: A method and corresponding wireless communication equipment, for use for example in connection with automatic retransmission request protocols for orthogonal frequency and code division multiplexing (OFCDM) wireless communication, the method including: a step in which the wireless communication equipment communicates an original transmission of a signal including two symbol streams each conveyed by at least two subcarriers of a single wideband carrier, where each symbol stream is conveyed by each of the at least two subcarriers after multiplication by a respective factor, the factors associated with each symbol stream forming a multicode for the symbol stream and the respective multicodes for the two symbol streams being mutually orthogonal; and a step in which the wireless communication equipment retransmits the signal, with the retransmission such that one factor is reversed in sign for each subcarrier.

Abstract: The invention relates to a reception method and a receiver in a system comprising in each cell a base station communicating with terminals located in its area. A received signal comprises a sum signal of signals originating from several transmitters. The receiver comprises means for performing interference elimination and a simultaneous multi-user detection to the signal and means for searching signal parameters. In order to reduce the required computational capacity, the receiver further comprises means for removing the effect of the signals of the known users from the receives sum signal, and means for estimating the parameters of the unknown signals from a narrowband residual signal.

Abstract: A device for block transmission involving a first number of subcarriers (N), comprising: storage means for storing at least one transmission matrix having a dimension equal to the first number. The transmission matrix being arranged so that the columns of the transmission matrix represent a first transmission characteristic and the rows of the transmission matrix represent a second transmission characteristic. The transmission matrix comprises a second number (k) of block submatrices, each submatrix separated by at least one row and/or column from a further submatrix by a null matrix block.

Abstract: The invention relates to a radio system and a data mission method. In the method of the invention, a transmitter codes a signal to be transmitted such that at least two non-orthogonal channels are obtained; the transmitter transmits the coded channels via at least two different transmit antenna paths; and a receiver receives the signal. The transmit antenna paths are divided into at least two different groups; and the signals to be transmitted through the different groups are weighted in the transmitter by means of changeable weighting coefficients determined for each group.

Abstract: A closed-loop signalling method controls multiple transmit beams. The method also includes transmitting a plurality of beams from a first transceiver via a plurality of transmission channels to a second transceiver, evaluating, at the second transceiver, characteristics of the plurality of transmitted beams received at the second transceiver. The method also includes deriving, at the second transceiver, beamforming information for being fed back from the second transceiver to the first transceiver based on the evaluated characteristics. The beamforming information is usable for controlling, at the first transceiver, the transmitting of the plurality of beams. The method also includes selecting, at the second transceiver, at least one set of beamforming information for being fed back from the second transceiver via a feedback path to the first transceiver.

Abstract: A method for space-time-frequency coding pieces of data includes receiving a stream of a plurality of pieces of data in a multi-antenna transmission system, where the data may comprise a stream of orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) symbols, orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbols or the like. The pieces of data are then coded across space, time and frequency dimensions based upon a plurality of space-time-frequency (STF) codes. The pieces of data are coded such that one or more STF codes in the frequency dimension differ from one or more other STF codes in the frequency dimension. In this regard, the frequency dimension can include a plurality of frequency bins such that the pieces of data can be coded in a manner whereby the plurality of STF codes sequentially circulates through sets of at least one frequency bin in the frequency domain.

Abstract: A device and method for block transmission are provided including means for storing at least one transmission matrix relating to a set of symbols, and means for applying at least part of said at least one transmission matrix to symbols forming at least a subset of said set of symbols for forming processed symbols. The device and method further include means for generating at least one transmission signal based on said processed symbols, wherein said at least one transmission matrix is a direct product of a first matrix and a second matrix, said second matrix being different from an identity matrix, a size of each of the second matrix and the first matrix being at least two times two, and at least one entry of the first matrix having a complex value.

Abstract: A scheduler in a communication network comprising a communication channel which is shared by a plurality of user nodes, the communication channel having a succession of slots. The scheduler has a quality unit for receiving an indication of the quality of the communication channel for each user node. A delay unit for receiving a predetermined delay factor for each of at least some of the user nodes, the delay factor representing a level of tolerance to a time delay. A selection unit connected to the quality and delay units and being arranged to determine, for each slot, which of the user nodes is to use that slot based on the channel quality indication and the delay factors.

Abstract: The transmit diversity and symbol rate in a wireless mobile system are increased by allocating the complex symbols to be transmitted in accordance with a time-space slot format that incorporates non-orthogonal-based matrices, defined as matrices whose format is such that the product of the matrix and its Hermitian transpose is other than the identity matrix times a real number other than unity. The non-orthogonal-based matrices are indexed by antenna and by symbol period. Copies and complex conjugates (or negative complex conjugates) of the same symbol that are transmitted from different antennas are mutually separated into non-adjacent parts of the slot. Each non-orthogonal-based “space-time” matrix is composed of orthogonal-based matrices, i.e., matrices other than non-orthogonal-based matrices. Preferably, sequences of complex conjugates are time-reversed in the slot.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of encoding a digital signal, to a receiver and to a transmitter including mechanisms for encoding symbols, including bits, in blocks of a given length, mechanism for encoding each block into a given number of channel symbols to be transmitted over several separate channels, and at least three transmit antenna paths for transmitting the channel symbols. In the solution of the invention, the transmitter converts the symbols into a form in which the sum energy of channel symbols mapping at least one symbol in a block is higher than the sum energy of channel symbols mapping another symbol in the block.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a diversity transmission method and system, wherein a transmission signal is divided into a plurality of subsignals. A first set of the subsignals in transmitted using a first diversity transmission scheme, and a second set of said subsignals is transmitted using a second diversity transmission scheme. Thus, a joint coordination between different types of diversity transmission schemes is proposed so as to achieve a significant capacity increase at a moderate complexity.

Abstract: A data transmission system and a data transmission method between two transceivers are provided. At least one of the transceivers employs more than one radiation patterns for transmitting and receiving a signal. The symbols to be transmitted are divided into blocks, which are encoded using a first space-time coding and one block is transmitted from each radiation pattern. The receiver checks whether retransmission is required and then transmits a retransmission message to the transmitter and stores at least some of the blocks in a memory. The transmitter encodes at least some of the same blocks using a second space-time coding and retransmits the blocks. The receiver receives the blocks using one or more antennas and performs a combined detection or decoding with the blocks in the memory.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for transmitting a digital signal consisting of symbols, which arrangement comprises a coder (308) for coding complex symbols to channel symbols in blocks having the length of a given K, means (312) for transmitting the channel symbols via several different channels and two or more antennas (314 to 318). The coder (308) is arranged to code the symbols using a code matrix, which can be expressed as a sum of 2K elements, in which each element is a product of a symbol or symbol complex conjugate to be transmitted and a N×N representation matrix of a complexified anti-commutator algebra, extended by a unit element, and in which each matrix is used at most once in the formation of the code matrix. A code matrix is also provided which is formed by matrices of a portion of the symbols placed on the diagonal of the code matrix and by matrices of a second portion of symbols along the anti-diagonal of the code matrix.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for detecting a signal are disclosed, wherein first set of symbols represents a signal received in a receiver. A second set of symbols is estimated, representing the signal transmitted at a transmitter using a sphere decoding technique. The estimation may employ at least two modulation schemes. Reliability information relating to bits forming a symbol may be determined for at least one symbol of the second set. Furthermore, reliability information relating to the signal may be taken into account in estimating at least one symbol of the second set.

Abstract: A data transmission method and system is provided. Symbols to be transmitted are encoded (200) in a first transceiver into at least two data flows using space-time coding. The data flows are transmitted by means of at least three radiation patterns (218 to 224) to a second transceiver (230). The radiation patterns (218 to 224) transmitting the data flows in the first transceiver are varied.

Abstract: An interference cancellation method and a receiver operating according to the method, in which multiple access interference cancellation of a received signal is performed and a confidence coefficient for estimates obtained from the received signal is calculated. In order to effect a reliable interference cancellation, the receiver utilizes the calculated confidence coefficients to control the multiple access interference cancellation.

Abstract: A transmitter and an applicable method comprising an antenna system for achieving two transmit paths, a first modulator for modulating a signal to be transmitted into complex modulation symbols, and a second modulator for constructing layered channel symbols as linear combinations of the complex modulation symbols is disclosed. The second modulator constructs channel symbols by using first and second non-zero coefficients when performing the linear combination. The ratio of the first and second coefficients is not a real number. The channel symbols are transmitted by using a first non-zero total power for transmission on a first transmit path, and a second non-zero total power for transmission on a second transmit path, wherein the first and second total powers are not equal.

Abstract: The performance and symbol rate in a wireless mobile system are increased by forming a transmission code matrix using transformed orthogonal codes, in such a way that the code is robust to channel statistics and operates well in both Ricean and (correlated) Rayleigh channels. Furthermore, the invention enables high symbol rate transmission using multiple transmit antennas, and one or multiple receive antennas, and obtains simultaneously high diversity order and high symbol or data rate.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for transmitting a digital signal consisting of symbols, which arrangement comprises a coder (308) for coding complex symbols to channel symbols in blocks having the length of a given K, means (312) for transmitting the channel symbols via several different channels and two or more antennas (314 to 318). The coder (308) is arranged to code the symbols using a code matrix, which can be expressed as a sum of 2K elements, in which each element is a product of a symbol or symbol complex conjugate to be transmitted and a N×N representation matrix of a complexified anti-commutator algebra, extended by a unit element, and in which each matrix is used at most once in the formation of the code matrix. A code matrix is also provided which is formed by matrices of a portion of the symbols placed on the diagonal of the code matrix and by matrices of a second portion of symbols along the anti-diagonal of the code matrix.