Patents Assigned to RF DSP Inc.
  • Publication number: 20180191527
    Abstract: This invention presents methods for calibrating the channel state information in a multi-antenna system, especially for estimating channels transmitting in one direction using signaling transmitted in the other direction. The methods comprise transmitting a first and a second reference signal wherein one is a function of the other, and using the estimate of the channel in one direction, and the received signals from the two reference signals to obtain an estimate of the channel in the other direction between a transmitter of the multi-antenna system to an external wireless device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: RF DSP Inc.
    Inventors: Dengkui Zhu, Ping Liang
  • Publication number: 20180167191
    Abstract: This invention presents methods for wireless communication systems implementing SCFD operation comprising adaptively configuring FDPs based on the directional antennas at each BS; measuring the interference levels among UEs located in areas covered by an FDP and determining the UE group that transmits and receives data on the same time-frequency resource(s) under the same FDP; and measuring the channels among neighboring BSs to cancel the interferences between two BSs with SCFD operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: RF DSP Inc.
    Inventor: Ping LIANG
  • Publication number: 20180153992
    Abstract: This invention presents methods for targeting and killing types of cells or organisms using Magneto-Electric Nano-Particles under the control of an external magnetic field. A method was also presented for using Magneto-Electric Nano-Particles to stimulate or rejuvenate cells under an external magnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: RF DSP Inc.
    Inventor: Ping Liang
  • Publication number: 20180152226
    Abstract: This invention presents a method for frequency resource allocation in a MU-MTMO system comprising assigning UEs with CQI higher than a predefined value and/or CEE lower than a predefined value and/or SII lower than a predefined value to a first group and the rest UEs to a second group, allocating different frequency resource to each group, and applying different precoding or decoding algorithm to each group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicant: RF DSP Inc.
    Inventor: Ping LIANG
  • Publication number: 20180139703
    Abstract: This invention presents methods for power allocation for each data stream on each transmitting antennas in MU-MIMO wireless communication systems comprising the BS computing the temporary beamforming matrix, constructing special matrices and vectors with the maximum transmitting power on each antenna, the allocated power to each data stream, the channel quality of each data stream, and the amplitude of each element of the temporary beamforming matrix, calculating the power allocated to each data stream on each antenna with the calculated special matrices and vectors, and adjusting each element of the temporary beamforming matrix to obtain the final beamforming matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: RF DSP Inc.
    Inventors: Dengkui Zhu, Boyu Li, Ping Liang
  • Publication number: 20180115343
    Abstract: This invention presents a repeater enhanced MU-MIMO wireless communication system com-prising a BS, a plural of repeaters, and a plural of UEs, where a repeater estimates the channel between itself and its upper communication node in the system, a repeater computes equalization coefficients based on the estimation of the channel coefficients, and a repeater applies the equalization coefficients to reduce the channel delay spread or increase the coherence bandwidth of the channel between communication nodes containing the BS, the UEs, or the repeaters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: RF DSP Inc.
    Inventors: Junyang Shen, Ping Liang, Dengkui Zhu, Boyu Li
  • Patent number: 9954591
    Abstract: This invention provides methods for Distributed Massive MIMO (DM-MIMO) that use one or more central Baseband Units (BBUs), one or more Multi-User Beamformers for each BBU performing multi-user MIMO computations, and a number of RRHs distributed over a geographic area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: RF DSP Inc.
    Inventor: Ping Liang
  • Publication number: 20180076881
    Abstract: This invention presents methods for MU-MIMO wireless communication systems comprising a BS with plural of antennas placed as a linear array or planar array, plural of UEs, for conducting two-level signal processing at the BS to reduce the system implementation complexity, i.e., the RF precoding/combination and the baseband precoding/detection, for the BS to obtain the second-order statistical information of the channel matrix of each UE to computing the RF precoding matrix through a much smaller number of pilots than that of the transceiving antennas at the BS, where the second-order statistical information of the channel matrix can be obtained through the uplink reference signals or downlink reference signals plus uplink feedback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: RF DSP Inc.
    Inventor: Ping LIANG
  • Patent number: 9917628
    Abstract: This invention presents methods for MU-MIMO wireless communication systems comprising a BS with plural of antennas, either closely located or distributed; A plural of AFRs deployed over a coverage area, each AFR has N_BF?1 BF antennas with a beam pattern facing the MU-BFer and N_UF?1 UF antennas with a beam pattern facing UEs or downstream AFR(s); A channel estimation module for estimating the Total Channels between a plural of UEs and the BS with the AFRs in place; and, A MU-BFer that uses the estimates of the Total Channels to perform beamforming computations for transmitting and/or receiving multiple spatially multiplexed streams of signals to or from a plural of UEs using the same frequency resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: RF DSP Inc.
    Inventors: Ping Liang, Dengkui Zhu, Boyu Li, Yiming Ma
  • Publication number: 20180026765
    Abstract: This invention provides SRS transmission methods to meet the Massive MIMO systems requirements. These methods are described in two separate categories. Firstly, enhancements to multiplex more channels in the same resources for a given SRS transmission and to provide Massive MIMO throughput performance improvements. Secondly, scheduling enhancements to provide adaptive UE-specific scheduling based on channel conditions for each UE. These methods can be combined in different ways in each BS to optimize the channel estimation system capacity for a given level of system performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: RF DSP Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Brent, Dengkui Zhu, Ping Liang
  • Publication number: 20180013483
    Abstract: This invention presents methods comprising a BS with a plural of antennas capable of beamforming two or more spatial multiplexed streams with two or more antennas on UEs; using one or more of relays to project the capacity of the BS to cover one or more UEs; the BS estimating the uplink channel state information (CSI) between each antenna on the BS and each antenna on the one or more UEs using pilots transmitted from the UE antennas in the presence of the relays which amplifies and forwards the one or more pilots; and, the BS making use of the perseverance of the reciprocity of the over the air channel by the symmetry of the DL and UL paths of the relays to obtain the downlink CSI using the estimated uplink CSI that includes the effect of the relays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2016
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: RF DSP Inc.
    Inventor: Ping LIANG
  • Publication number: 20180006743
    Abstract: This invention presents methods for estimating the uplink SINR and channel estimation error level in MU-MIMO wireless communication systems comprising the BS obtaining the channel coefficients between each receiving antenna of a BS and a transmitting antenna of a UE in the uplink; for the BS estimating the SU-MIMO SINR of a UE using the channel coefficients between a UE and the BS; for the BS estimating the channel estimation error level of a UE using the channel coefficients between a UE and the BS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: RF DSP Inc.
    Inventor: Ping Liang
  • Publication number: 20170373737
    Abstract: This invention provides methods for Distributed Massive MIMO (DM-MIMO) that use one or more central Baseband Units (BBUs), one or more Multi-User Beamformers for each BBU performing multi-user MIMO computations, and a number of RRHs distributed over a geographic area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: RF DSP Inc.
    Inventor: Ping LIANG
  • Patent number: 9847819
    Abstract: This invention presents methods for estimating MU-MIMO channel information using SU-MIMO channel information to choose a modulation and channel coding appropriate for the quality of the MU-MIMO channels, for adaptively selecting MU-MIMO precoding methods based on estimations of a plural of UEs and for compensating hardware impairments in MU-MIMO precoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: RF DSP Inc.
    Inventors: Dengkui Zhu, Ping Liang
  • Publication number: 20170331526
    Abstract: This invention presents a method and apparatuses for wireless networking comprising one or more BS with Nbs antennas; two or more SCs in the range of a BS where a SC has Nsc antennas, uses Nsc1?Nsc antennas for communication with a BS and uses Nsc2?Nsc antennas for communication with one or more UEs; at the same time a BS transmitting DL signals to K SCs using multi-user transmit BF in a frequency channel, a SC simultaneously transmitting DL signals to one or more UEs in its range using the same frequency channel; and, at the same time a BS receiving UL signals from K SCs using multi-user receive BF in a frequency channel, a SC simultaneously receiving UL signals from one or more UEs in its range using the same frequency channel. Furthermore, beamforming using antennas on the SCs is performed to reduce the inter-SC interferences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: RF DSP Inc.
    Inventor: Ping Liang
  • Patent number: 9813121
    Abstract: This invention presents a method and apparatuses for wireless networking comprising one or more BS with Nbs antennas; two or more SCs in the range of a BS where a SC has Nsc antennas, uses Nsc1?Nsc antennas for communication with a BS and uses Nsc2?Nsc antennas for communication with one or more UEs; at the same time a BS transmitting DL signals to K SCs using multi-user transmit BF in a frequency channel, a SC simultaneously transmitting DL signals to one or more UEs in its range using the same frequency channel; and, at the same time a BS receiving UL signals from K SCs using multi-user receive BF in a frequency channel, a SC simultaneously receiving UL signals from one or more UEs in its range using the same frequency channel. Furthermore, beamforming using antennas on the SCs is performed to reduce the inter-SC interferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: RF DSP Inc.
    Inventor: Ping Liang
  • Publication number: 20170257155
    Abstract: This invention presents methods for MU-MIMO wireless communication systems comprising a BS with plural of antennas, either closely located or distributed; A plural of AFRs deployed over a coverage area, each AFR has N_BF?1 BF antennas with a beam pattern facing the MU-BFer and N_UF?1 UF antennas with a beam pattern facing UEs or downstream AFR(s); A channel estimation module for estimating the Total Channels between a plural of UEs and the BS with the AFRs in place; and, A MU-BFer that uses the estimates of the Total Channels to perform beamforming computations for transmitting and/or receiving multiple spatially multiplexed streams of signals to or from a plural of UEs using the same frequency resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: RF DSP Inc.
    Inventors: Ping Liang, Dengkui Zhu, Boyu Li, Yiming Ma
  • Publication number: 20170250740
    Abstract: This invention presents methods for signal detection and transmission in MU-MIMO wireless communication systems, for multiple UEs transmit uplink SRS to capture the uplink channel coefficients, and to estimate the frequency offsets and time offsets, for the BS estimating the channel coefficients of multiple UEs with the received SRS, for the BS estimating the frequency offsets and time offsets of multiple UEs with the estimated channel coefficients, for the BS modifying the estimated channel coefficients with the estimated frequency offsets and time offsets, for the BS calculating the detection matrices for the uplink MU-MIMO signal detection with the modified channel coefficients and for the BS calculating the precoding matrices for the downlink MU-MIMO signal transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: RF DSP Inc.
    Inventor: Ping LIANG
  • Publication number: 20170244512
    Abstract: This invention presents methods for signal detection and transmission in MU-MIMO wireless communication systems, for inverse matrix approximation error calculation, for adaptively selecting the number of multiplexed UEs in a MU-MIMO group, for adaptively choosing a modulation and channel coding scheme appropriate for the quality of MU-MIMO channels with the approximation error of matrix inverse being incorporated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: RF DSP Inc.
    Inventors: Ping Liang, Dengkui Zhu, Boyu Li
  • Publication number: 20170224822
    Abstract: This invention provides methods for achieving high-specificity killing of targeted cells using Magneto-Electric Nano-Particles (MENPs). Embodiments comprise injecting into a patients body manufactured MENPs that have a higher tendency to accumulate near or attach to targeted cells through one or more physical forces and/or biological mechanisms; and applying a magnetic field to the MENPs to generate actions that are sufficient to cause death of the targeted cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: RF DSP Inc.
    Inventor: Ping Liang