Abstract: A wireless device including a transceiver that utilizes a power supply is described. The wireless device includes a Global Positioning System (“GPS”) section having a plurality of GPS subsystems and a power controller in signal communication with the power supply and GPS section, wherein the power controller is configured to selectively power each GPS subsystem from the plurality of GPS subsystems.

Abstract: A wireless network of multiple base stations, each communicating with multiple remote terminals, exhibiting simpler design and enhanced inter-user and inter-base interference rejection. The downlink from a base to the multiple remote terminals employs a combination of time division multiplexing (TDM) and time division multiple access (TDMA) to multiplex signals carrying data to the remote terminals, and spreads the multiplexed signal with a pseudo-random noise (PN) sequence. The uplink from each remote terminal to the respective base uses orthogonal code division multiple access (O-CDMA) coding to multiplex a variable number of channels for each remote terminal. Short O-code sequences are derived based on pseudo-random maximal length sequences and quadratic residue sequences to introduce sufficient randomness into the multiple access coding to reject inter-base interference without the use of PN signal spectrum spreading.

Abstract: A communication device includes a transmitter and receiver. The transmitter includes an M-ary encoder configured to generate an M−1 number of distinctive symbols each comprising k bits. M is equal to 2k and k is a positive integer. The transmitter also includes a code generator configured to produce spread spectrum codeword sequences based on the symbols generated by the M-ary encoder and based on a first and a second Gold code polynomials. The transmitter sends a radio signal based on the spread spectrum codeword sequences. The receiver is configured to receive the radio signal. The receiver includes a first shift register configured to receive an input signal generated based on the received radio signal and a second shift register configured to receive and circularly shift a locally generated codeword sequence that is identical to the codeword sequence used to encode the symbols.